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Sex work
About: Sex work is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4250 publications have been published within this topic receiving 97984 citations.
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TL;DR: It is concluded that transactional sex may place women at increased risk for HIV, and is associated with gender-based violence, substance use and socio-economic disadvantage.
580 citations
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TL;DR: Analysis of the narratives and daily lived experiences of women sex workers highlight the urgent need for a renewed HIV prevention strategy that moves beyond a solely individual-level focus to structural and environmental interventions that facilitate 'enabling environments' for HIV prevention.
489 citations
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TL;DR: Conceptualising and debating sex-work harm reduction as a new paradigm can hasten this process of safeguard sex workers' lives in the same way that drug users have benefited from drug-use harm reduction.
486 citations
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TL;DR: Focus groups were used to examine experiences of stigma and coping strategies among HIV-positive women in Ontario, Canada and found that fear, isolation, and self-harm were more common among women with HIV.
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HIV infection rates are increasing among marginalized women in Ontario, Canada. HIV-related stigma, a principal factor contributing to the global HIV epidemic, interacts with structural inequities such as racism, sexism, and homophobia. The study objective was to explore experiences of stigma and coping strategies among HIV-positive women in Ontario, Canada.
441 citations
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19 Dec 1996
TL;DR: Chapkis as discussed by the authors captures the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labor and offers a complex, multi-faceted depiction of sex work, including a serious examination of international prostitution policy as well as hands-on accounts of contemporary commercial sexual practices.
Abstract: Drawing on more than fifty interviews in both the US and the Netherlands, Wendy Chapkis captures the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labor and offers a complex, multi-faceted depiction of sex work. Her expansive analytic perspective encompasses both a serious examination of international prostitution policy as well as hands-on accounts of contemporary commercial sexual practices. Scholarly, but never simply academic, this book is explicitly grounded in a concern for how competing political discourses work concretely in the world--to frame policy and define perceptions of AIDS, to mobilize women into opposing camps, to silence some agendas and to promote others.
436 citations