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I understand your frustration and how it can be annoying that people always see sex-workers and especially women in these businesses as poor objectified girls who were forced into it and are victims.
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The approach is certainly twisted … And I wish governments would acknowledge the existence of sex-workers and their rights, to use them as the framework to control and reduce problems from the inside, instead of fighting them as well as a whole.
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H., on January 14th, 2009 at 10: 01 pm Said: interesting video. your website is a great source of information for sex-workers.thanks. kittenINFINITE, on January 15th, 2009 at 10: 42 pm Said:
Know Your Rights For Sex Workers, Part 2 « Bound, Not Gagged 2009
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Blanket bans have the unfortunate effect of establishing prostitutes and other sex-workers as part of the quasi-criminal underclass, abused by criminals and cops alike, ignored – or restricted to certain streets and neighborhoods by the middle and upper classes.
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It would be wise to leave sex-workers out of this discussion, as 90% are drug addicts, which is a different problem.
Too many of us treat young white women as trash | Barbara Ellen 2011
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And yes, it is not “made up” that I am a contributor to the sex-workers magazine $pread.
Donna Hughes: Have tattooes? You don’t deserve respect. « Bound, Not Gagged 2009
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She claims that the owners tried to make the waitresses into sex-workers although the article doesn't seem to provide any corroboration of that charge.
Muslim woman fired for not wearing revealing enough dress at work - Feministing 2008
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Will there be support for real, comprehensive prevention programs that include controversial but effective programs like needle exchange and positive work with sex-workers?
Matthew Kavanagh: Who Will Obama and Clinton Tap on Global AIDS? How about a Search Committee? 2009
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We've known for some time that Nonoxynol-9 use can increase HIV transmission, from studies of sex-workers in Thailand and Africa, who were found to acquire HIV more often when they used Nonoxynol-9 spermacides along with condoms, compared to their counterparts who used just condoms.
FDA Warnings on Nonoxynol-9 Re-Define Sponge Worthiness aka TBTAM 2007
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They are sex-workers without the sex…and probably without the higher pay scale.
Unoriginal boobs 2009
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