1. Bill C36: A Dangerous Way Forward
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   In Ottawa this week between September 9-11th, sex workers, sex worker rights organizations and allies of sex workers will be appearing as witnesses before the Senate's Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee to speak to Bill C36
2. Cam Girls Tell All: 4 Kinky Ways Guys Like To Be Humiliated
   There's somethng out there for everyone
   Resource Type: Article
   AlterNet had the opportunity to chat with a few women working as cam girls (or more formally, web cam performers. They confirmed that most guys like getting off. To our surprise, some like to do it through humiliation.
3. Connexions
   Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1988
   
4. Connexions Digest
   Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1989
   
5. Connexions Digest
   Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1989
   
6. Connexions Library: Sexuality Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on sexuality.
7. Down With Tory Crackdown on Prostitution!
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   The Tories, who have slashed billions from social programs and caused immeasurable harm to poor and working-class women, have fraudulently promoted Bill C-36 as a way of protecting victims of "exploitation." In this they are backed by an unholy alliance of right-wing outfits like REAL Women of Canada and the feminist groups that make up the Women’s Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution.
8. Feminist Issues In Prostitution
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1997
   The flawed reasoning behind the opposition to prostitution by (radical) feminists.
9. First register; then turn tricks
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2017
   A new prostitution law to include compulsory registration meant to fight human trafficking and exploitation is not popular in the industry, and may lead to a return of prostitution going underground.
10. From Somaly Mam to ''Eden'': How Sex Trafficking Sensationalism Hurts Sex Workers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Most activists, regardless of ideology, are trying to do the right thing. But when it comes to human rights and sex work, doing the right thing is often much more complicated than calling the cops or donating 75 cents a day to a starving child on TV.
11. Good Girls, Bad Girls
    Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    Looks into issues like racism in pornography, reclamation of the label "whore," the concerns surrounding censorship and the myths and stereotypes that have made sex trade workers outcasts.
12. Happy Hookers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Exploring the lives of sex workers and their would-be saviours.
13. How Brazil's Sex Workers Have Been Organized and Politically Effective for 30 Years
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Sex workers in Brazil have been organizing for 30 years and have influenced politics to the extent that the government recognizes sex-work as an official occupation. They are celebrating the anniversary in part with an exhibit of photographs taken by sex-workers.
14. How Brazil’s Sex Workers Have Been Organized and Politically Effective for 30 Years
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    In Brazil, sex work remains politically and socially contentious. But thanks to a staunch sex worker movement in the country, the people who actually do the work have made themselves key contributors to the debate.
15. I Was a Streetwalker for a Night
    I did it for science
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    I became a prostitute for a night. Not a high-class escort (the logistics seemed too daunting for an amateur like me) just a regular hooker out on the street. I had no clue what to expect exactly, but that's what made it all so exciting.
16. If you can moan this job is yours
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1999
    Life as a cyber sex worker.
17. Inside the Sensational Business of "Rescuing" Sex Workers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    For years, the sex worker movement has been at odds with a conservative wing of the anti-human trafficking movement.
18. June 8, 2013: Sex Workers' National Day of Action
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    On June 8th sex workers and allies across Canada will hold actions in 6 cities across Canada in support of repealing prostitution laws currently being challenged.
19. Meet the Fokkens
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    Published: 2011
    A documentary on Louise and Martine Fokkens, 69-year-old twin sisters who have worked as prostitutes in the red-light district in Amsterdam for over 40 years.
20. Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho: 'I don't scare easily'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Lydia Cacho is one of Mexico's most fearless journalists. Her investigations have led to attempts on her life, and now she has been forced to flee her country. What next?
21. National Day of Action Against Bill C36: Criminalization Costs Sex Workers’ Lives
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Across Canada, sex worker groups, along with organizations and individuals that support human rights and women's rights, are gathering to denounce the Conservative government's proposed bill (C36) to re-criminalize sex work.
22. Over 60 organizations and agencies call for non-enforcement of C-36 and support full decriminalization of sex work
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Over 60 organizations and agencies call for non-enforcement of C-36 and support full decriminalization of sex work.
23. Paying for It
    A Guide by Sex Workers for their Clients
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    A book of advice for sex work customers, written by sex workers and former sex workers, about how to treat sex workers so they like you more and give you better service.
24. Porn, Women's Rights and the Left
    A Response to Gail Dines
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    I believe that government belongs in health, education, welfare, social services, environmental protection and transport; but I do not believe that it belongs in our bedrooms.
25. Prostitution
    Resource Type: Article
    Prostitution is the act or practice of providing sexual services to another person in return for payment.
26. Prostitution and trafficking – the anatomy of a moral panic
    Victims who never existed
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The author challenges the underlying assumptions and methods used to assess the incidence of sex trafficking into the United Kingdom.
27. Prostitution ban won't hit England, 'too many politicians' visit sex workers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Northern Ireland’s sex trade ban has left prostitutes in fear of "danger and poverty." In an in-depth interview with RT, one sex worker challenged the idea of the law spreading to England, claiming "too many" influential people visit prostitutes.
28. Prostitution Rights
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1980
    Decriminalization takes prostitution from the jurisdiction of the criminal code. It means private sexual acts between consenting adults are placed outside the realm of criminal laws.
29. The Red Menace
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
    
30. Red Menace #5
    Summer 1980
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
31. Revelations
    Essays on Striptease and Sexuality
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    A sympathetic look at a much-maligned art form.
32. Scarlet Road
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2011
    Scarlet Road follows the extraordinary work of Australian sex worker, Rachel Wotton. Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression and the rights of sex workers, she specializes in a long over-looked clientele – people with disability.
33. Selling Sexual Services: A Socialist Feminist Perspective
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The current debate about sex work among feminists generates more heat than light. Accusations of bad faith fly back and forth across the two sides, research findings are mobilized to undercut the other side even when the research itself is limited by its methods and scope, different sex worker voices are authorized by each side as either genuine or manipulated, depending on whose position those voices seem to support.
34. Sex & Censorship
    Resource Type: Website
    The UK is experiencing increasing levels of moral panic over sex and sexuality.
    We are told that Internet porn is causing an increase in rape; yet sexual violence is actually falling.
    We are told that 'trolls' on Twitter are leading to an increase in domestic violence, yet domestic violence is at its lowest in decades.
    All of these panics, amplified by the media and self-serving campaign groups, have the same objective: more censorship.
    Enough is Enough! Free speech and sexual freedom are under their greatest threat since the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
    The Sex & Censorship campaign sets out to challenge the myths and rumours. We aim to reach out to journalists and politicians and ensure that scare stories are not used to introduce yet more laws and regulations that further restrict our access to information that is freely available elsewhere.
35. The Sex Industry and Its Workers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1983
    An article discussing the various components of the sex industry and the various forms of sexual services that have evolved from prostitution.
36. Sex Work
    Writings by Women in the Sex Industry
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    
37. Sex Work Advocates Make Their Voices Heard While Ontario Considers Harmful New Sex Work Laws
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Sex worker advocates insist that Ontario Attorney General Meillleur must meet with them and consider the mounting opposition to the misguided laws.
38. The sex work debate - a response to Jess Edwards
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Contribution to the debate on sex work which has been taking place in the International Socialism journal.
39. Sex work: Solidarity not salvation
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    An ongoing debate is taking place in anarchist and feminist circles on the legitimacy of sex work and the rights of sex workers. The two main schools of thought are almost at polar opposites of each other. On the one side you have the abolitionist approach led by feminists, such as Melissa Farley who maintains that sex work is a form of violence against women. Farley has said that "If we view prostitution as violence against women, it makes no sense to legalize or decriminalize prostitution." On the other side you have sex worker rights activists who view sex work as being much closer to work in general than most realize, who believe that the best way forward for sex workers is in the fight for workers' rights and social acceptance and for activists to listen to what sex workers have to say. In this article I will discuss why the abolitionist approach discriminates against sex workers and takes advantage of their marginalized status, while the rights approach offer the opportunity to make solid differences in the labour rights and human rights of sex workers.
40. Sex workers decry government consultation on prostitution
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Maggie's - Toronto Sex Workers' Action Project, along with sex workers and other experts, question the legitimacy of the federal government online consultation around prostitution in Canada.
41. Sex Workers in Nicaragua Break the Silence and Gain Rights
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    After living in the shadows, thousands of Nicaraguan sex workers have broken their silence, won support from state institutions and gained new respect for their rights.
42. SexSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring sexuality resources: articles, websites, books. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
43. 10 City Blocks
    Survival Sex Trade in the Downtown East Side
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2011
    For women working the sex trade in Vancouver's notorious downtown east side, a "bad date", has nothing to do with awkward conversation or a lack of chemistry. Living in a world that most of us know little about, six survival sex trade workers share their struggles with addiction, mental and physical health concerns, and the fear of violent assault, through gritty and often shocking, candid interviews.
44. Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered
    New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    This collection of essays underscores the interlocking relationship between prostitution, migration and trafficking. They reveal a deep seated anxiety about borders, economic resources and the fragility of the nation-state. Far from from helping women and children become free from explotaiton, the obession with women sex workers has led to the detriment of all by excluding the questions of human rights, freedon of movement, basics such as food and shelter and a living wage. The book is a call for all those involved -- governments, aid workers and trafickees -- to go beyond a paternalistic and colonial view of these issues and deal with them in a spirit of cooperation.
45. UK Pornstars Fight Back
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The Stop Porn Culture circus represents a coalition of the loudest anti-sex and pro-censorship voices in the English-speaking world. Former pornstar Renée Richards calls on UK pornstars, strippers, models, sex workers and their supporters to take a stand and join us to protest against those who have, for so long, labelled and lied about the women in the sex industries.
46. What's Left of Queer?: Immigration, Sexuality, and Affect in a Neoliberal World
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    We need to refuse the narratives of abjection that are routinely forced upon us. They only render us immobile creatures, begging for help. We are all neoliberals now. We're all selling our bodies, our lives, our stories to the media and to provide comfort to ourselves. Those stories have to be challenged and reworked or we lose sight of the larger story of economic exploitation, at our peril.
47. Who Cares?
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2012
    Rosie Dranfeld captures the gritty and dangerous world of Edmonton's sex-trade workers. In this post-Pickton era where the unthinkable is now a gruesome reality, women voluntarily provide police with DNA samples for future identification.
48. Why Do Establishment Feminists Hate Sex Workers?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    On March 21st, 2018, U.S. Senate Republicans and Democrats joined together to overwhelmingly pass the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA); the House had earlier passed the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA).
49. A Win for Sex Workers - A Win for Safety, Equality, and Justice
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The Supreme Court of Canada has released a unanimous decision striking down all three prostitution laws, paving the way for more safety, justice and equality for sex workers in Canada.
50. The Wisdom of Whores
    Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Pisani's book The Wisdom of Whores is a scathing attack on the bureaucratic international aid communities that deal with HIV/AIDS. Topics include: injection of drugs and the idea of harm reduction by the use of clean needles and methadone to prevent the spread of HIV, the question of economic resources and how and where they are spent, the concept of abstinence and how the U.S. administration views has undermined the use of condoms.
51. Working Girls: Prostitutes, Their Life and Social Control
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    An analysis of prostitution laws in Austrailia and a discussion of the need for decriminalisation.

Experts on Sex Workers in the Sources Directory

1. Museum of Sex