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The decriminalisation of sex work repeals sex work-specific criminal and licensing laws. This framework recognises sex work as work, and opens the sex industry’s access to the civil laws that protect and govern all other workforces. Civil laws protect people’s health, safety, privacy, autonomy, and human and industrial rights.
Criminal laws that apply to everyone are still enforced. In this way, decriminalisation is not absence of regulation, but a whole-of-government approach. Most importantly, it’s the model every sex worker peer organisation in Australia calls for! As the primary stakeholders in sex industry regulation, and THE ONLY people with any first-hand, client-facing industry experience, sex workers are uniquely placed to lead the way in sex industry regulation! It’s why we say, “Nothing About Us Without Us!”
The licensing framework creates multiple sets of laws, codes and regulations specific to the sex industry. Sex workers working outside of these laws are criminalised and targeted by police. These laws—most frequently written by people with zero experience in the sex industry—directly impede our ability to make decisions about where, when, how, and with whom we work based on our individual health and safety needs. They are also ambiguous, confusing, illogical, and incredibly expensive to administer. The inefficacy — or some would argue, intention — of these laws is to create a two-tiered system where most sex workers are forced to work outside the law.
Ability to make decisions about where, when, how, and with whom we work based on our individual health and safety needs. They are also ambiguous, confusing, illogical, and incredibly expensive to administer. The inefficacy — or some would argue, intention — of these laws is to create a two-tiered system where most sex workers are forced to work outside the law.
Some of the things independent sex workers are criminalised for include:
Many of these statistics are not only blatantly falsified (some have even been denounced by the initial researcher), but they are often used as the basis for harmful carceral legislation. If you would like to learn more about human trafficking, sex work, and bad statistics, we love this episode of You’re Wrong About.
The taboos around sex are pervasive enough in society that the sex industry is viewed with an air of disdain and suspicion. Sex workers, who are entrenched in the sex industry, are radically misunderstood. This misunderstanding has led to cultural stigma against the work that sex workers do.
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