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The New Zealand book is worth having a look at as it wasn't a given that decriminalization was going to go through. Most of the work they did was public speaking engagements, TV and press it wasn't legal challenges.

I agree. Its also worrying that over the last 8-9 years clients and third parties are basically ignored. I think the approach is backwards from what it should be: change public attitudes by presenting the realities of our lives and actually work with the government rather than take an...

There's a new paper up on SocArXiv: The Changing Meaning Of “No” In Canadian Sex Work Advertising: Peace of Mind, Safety and Race This looked at what words people put after "No" in sex work ads over a 15 year period. An emerging theme was the exclusion of Men of Color in advertising. This is...

Jenn from CASWLR and legal representatives just finished a webinar on their PCEPA challenge to the supreme court. More information: Infosheet-END.pdf There were questions some of which were around client organizing: Looks like there is nothing that explicitly reflects the interests of clients...

I wrote about this in a recent tweet thread . Compared to an estimated 169k workers the number of human trafficking cases seems to be minuscule. Many of these cases never result in convictions as well. According to a RCMP report I read recently on the topic a common pattern is someone agrees to...

I had a great deal of difficulty keeping the length of the paper down to less than 8000 words so I had to leave out many points that I think should be made. One of these is sex work represents a wide variety of people. All ages, shapes, income levels are represented in one way or another from...

This is an update to My unfortunate involvement in Sex Worker Research. The paper is now up on PLOS ONE https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277550 The paper was completely re-written. If you want a quick summary of what the paper is about jump to the Discussion...

This is a follow up thread to the previous one on my experience doing archival research on online advertising My unfortunate involvement in sex work research. Based on the numbers I was able to generate, I would guess that if you knew 125 women who were between 20-49 in 2016 you probably knew a...

This would be first, grouping ads together in a meaningful way. For most of the ads collected phone and email contacts were the best ways to group ads but using phone and email contacts has limitations. In some cases there are multiple email and phone contacts in one ad - this is tackled by...

One wish I've had is that the companies that host the advertising start compiling and publishing research the same way pornhub does. I think it could go a long way to start destigmatizing the industry. I think the reality for the sex workers is not being captured by the research - and obviously...

Yes, I do. I attempt to exclude anything that isn't contact sex work.

I just created https://populationproject.ca/ to describe the research and encourage people to collaborate. Not sure how that would work but we can figure that out if there is any interest.

Well I definitely didn't expect this to take 15 years ...

Probably some but the largest category by far were female escorts. I pretty much downloaded everything from the advertising sites and checked after how many advertisers were relevant (out of 3999 checked 95% were). More precise answer: Searching for variations on "sugar baby" or "sugar...

This is the link to the paper: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/59a4s Google search doesn't seem to find the new title but a search on osf.io should find it. The original title was "The Silent Majority: Evidence for Part-Time Sex Work in Canada"