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R Es Ea R Ch Fo R S E X W O R K September 2015 ISSUE RESEARCH FOR FOR RESEARCH 14 WORK SEX Sex Work Is Work The theme for this issue of Research Hydra e.V provides us with an overview Caterine report on New York’s Human for Sex Work is ‘Sex Work Is Work’. The of the German legal framework that is Trafficking Intervention Courts (HTICs) origin of the term ‘sex work’ is a often misrepresented in international launched in September 2013. The coherent starting point for this issue of debates around sex work. authors argue that while sex workers Research for Sex Work. Elena Jeffreys An ethnographic study by Ursula are now seen as victims rather than reflects on how this terminology Probst evaluated support services for criminals, this has not stopped the shapes sex work politics today and female sex workers in Berlin and found arrests and incarcerations of ‘victims how its invention in the 1970s created that services for sex workers are often of human trafficking’. a broad understanding of sex work as inadequate. Many sex workers felt that The conflation of sex work with work. Kate D’Adamo explores how sex these services fell short of providing trafficking not only distorts the workers can borrow collective strategies them significant support and were debate around sex work but it also from other types of informal labour, often patronising in their assumptions forces underground labour leading build solidarity with other sectors of of what sex workers need help with. to persisting violence against sex intimate labour, specifically domestic When sex work policy and workers. Penny Saunders and Cris workers, and finally how building upon legislation happens in the vacuum Sardinia write about their local and the notion of sex work as work can of criminalisation – be that via full national campaigns to ‘hold the change the mechanics of organising criminalisation of the sale and US accountable’ and to affirm that decentralised labour in the context of a purchase of sex or via the so-called sex work is work within the US and labour movement and labour rights. Nordic Model of Prostitution where beyond (where the US tries to impose Anti-sex work campaigners often the buyer is criminalised and the sale its policies). cite Germany as an example of what of sex itself is not illegal – sex workers The distortion of the debate around happens when ‘prostitution is legalised’ are often subject to a wide variety of sex work is visible in many ways. and they do so without context and a abuses both at the hands of individuals Persist Health Project (Persist) based in full understanding of the legislation and posing as clients and law enforcement NYC writes about the discrimination more importantly, without knowledge officials, agencies and government and coercion in healthcare settings of the experience of sex workers. institutions. Audiacia Ray and Emma that sex workers experience. Prof. Chris Atchison et al’s study The last article reports on the looks at the importance of time in giving effects of sex work being officially sex workers control when negotiating recognised in New Zealand 12 years transactions with clients. The authors ago. New Zealand Prostitutes Collective also reflect on the likely negative (NZPC) shares their insights into outcomes of the new legal provisions the occupational health and safety in Canada for both sex workers and gains achieved by sex workers in this clients that will widen the net of legislative environment. criminal sanctions to include everyone Every effort has been made to who purchases or communicates in credit properly the numerous images order to obtain sexual services as well that enhance this issue of Research as everyone who knowingly advertises for Sex Work. Thank you to everyone an offer to provide sexual services. who contributed. ‘El trabajo sexual es trabajo’ La temática de este nuevo número paternalista, desde el prejuicio de que la discriminación y la coacción que las de la revista Research for Sex Work las personas que ejercen el trabajo personas que ejercen el trabajo sexual es ‘El trabajo sexual es trabajo’. El sexual siempre necesitan ayuda. experimentan en los centros de salud. origen del término ‘trabajo sexual’ es Cuando las políticas y las leyes El estudio del profesor Chris el punto de partida pertinente para respecto al trabajo sexual se dan en el Atchinson y su equipo, por su parte, esta edición de nuestra revista. Elena ‘vacío’ de la criminalización – ya sea analiza la importancia del tiempo Jeffreys reflexiona acerca de cómo a través de la penalización total de la para tener control en la negociación esta terminología permea las políticas venta y compra de sexo o mediante con los clientes. Los autores también respecto al trabajo sexual hoy en día y el denominado ‘Modelo Nórdico de reflexionan acerca del más que probable cómo la invención del término en los Prostitución’ donde en principio solo impacto negativo de las nuevas años setenta facilitó una comprensión se sanciona al comprador y la venta disposiciones jurídicas en Canadá tanto más abarcadora del trabajo sexual como de servicios sexuales no es ilegal en para las personas que ejercen el trabajo trabajo. Kate D’Adamo explora cómo sí misma – las personas que ejercen sexual como para los clientes, que las personas que ejercen el trabajo el trabajo sexual son a menudo objeto ampliará la gama de sanciones penales sexual pueden utilizar estrategias de múltiples y variados abusos, ya para incluir a toda persona que compre colectivas procedentes de otras formas sea a manos de sujetos que se hacen o solicite servicios sexuales y a quienes de trabajo informal, construir alianzas pasar por clientes, los agentes de orden intencionadamente anuncien su oferta con otros sectores económicos relativos público o las agencias e instituciones de prestación de servicios sexuales. al trabajo íntimo o servicios personales, gubernamentales. Audacia Ray y Emma El último artículo aborda las especialmente con las trabajadoras Caterine nos cuentan acerca de los consecuencias del reconocimiento domésticas y, por último, D’Adamo tribunales de intervención contra la oficial del trabajo sexual en Nueva plantea cómo el hecho de partir de la Trata de seres humanos (HTIC, por sus Zelanda, hace ahora 12 años. noción de trabajo sexual como trabajo siglas en inglés) de Nueva York, en vigor El Colectivo de Prostitutas de puede cambiar la mecánica de la desde septiembre de 2013. Las autoras Nueva Zelanda nos comparte los organización del trabajo descentralizado sostienen que, si bien las personas conocimientos sobre seguridad y en el contexto de un movimiento que ejercen el trabajo sexual ahora salud laboral logrados por las personas sindical y derechos laborales. son consideradas víctimas en lugar de que ejercen el trabajo sexual en este contexto legislativo. Las personas que realizan campaña delincuentes, esto no ha impedido que Hemos intentado por todos los contra el trabajo sexual citan a menudo las detenciones y el encarcelamiento medios acreditar adecuadamente las a Alemania como el ejemplo de lo de las ‘víctimas de trata de seres numerosas imágenes que ilustran este que ocurre cuando ‘la prostitución se humanos’ continúen. número del Research for Sex Work. legaliza’, sin tener en cuenta el contexto La identificación del trabajo sexual Muchas gracias a todas las personas ni comprender totalmente la legislación con la trata de personas no solamente que lo hicieron posible. y, mucho más importante, sin conocer distorsiona el debate en torno al la experiencia de las personas que trabajo sexual sino que también ejercen el trabajo sexual. Hydra e.V obliga al trabajo clandestino, lo que nos proporciona una panorámica del significa perpetuar la violencia contra marco jurídico alemán, tantas veces mal las personas que ejercen el trabajo explicado en los debates internacionales sexual. Penny Saunders y Cris Sardina en torno al trabajo sexual. nos cuentan algunas de las campañas En el estudio etnográfico de Ursula que han llevado a cabo, a nivel local Probst se analizaron los servicios de y nacional, para ‘responsabilizar a los apoyo para las mujeres que ejercen EE.UU’ y afirmar que el trabajo sexual el trabajo sexual en Berlín y la autora es trabajo, tanto en los EE.UU como en concluye que los servicios para las otros países (donde el país americano profesionales del sexo son a menudo trata de imponer sus políticas). insuficientes. Muchas mujeres que La distorsión del debate sobre el ejercen el trabajo sexual opinaron que trabajo sexual se evidencia de múltiples estos servicios se quedan cortos a la formas. Las autoras integrantes del hora de proporcionarles apoyo eficaz y proyecto de salud Persist, con sede en que a menudo se las trata de manera Nueva York, comparten en su artículo 2 GLOBAL NETWORK OF SEX WORK PROJECTS IMAGE BY/FUENTE: SWOU Contents Contenidos Sex Worker Politics and the Term ‘Sex Work’ .........4 La Política de las Personas Profesionales del Sexo y el Término ‘Trabajo Sexual’ ...................6 ELENA JEFFREYS Beyond Sex Work as Work .......................................9 Más Allá del Trabajo Sexual como Trabajo ...........11 KATE D’ADAMO The German Prostitution Law: An Example of the ‘Legalisation of Sex Work’ ...........................13 La Ley Alemana sobre Prostitución: un Ejemplo de ‘Legalización del Trabajo Sexual’ .......16 HYDRA E.V. Support for Sex Workers as Occupational Support? ...........................................19 ¿Apoyo Laboral a las Personas que ejercen el Trabajo Sexual? ..............................21 URSULA PROBST Criminal, Victim, or Worker? ..................................23 ¿Criminales, Víctimas o Personas que ejercen el Trabajo sexual?...............................25 AUDACIA RAY AND EMMA CATERINE United States Organising .......................................27 La Organización en Estados Unidos ......................29 CRIS SARDINA (DESIREE ALLIANCE), PENELOPE SAUNDERS (BEST PRACTICES POLICY PROJECT-BPPP) AND OTHERS FROM LOCAL COMMUNITIES IN THE US Sex Workers Talk About Occupational Health in New York City .........................................31 Las Opiniones de las Personas que Ejercen el Trabajo Sexual en Nueva York acerca de la Salud Laboral ............................33 SARAH ELSPETH PATTERSON, M.ED.
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