Resources
There are many resources available to learn more about sex work decriminalization. This is in no way an exhaustive list, but a good place to start.
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Articles
High Risk Hustling: Payment Processors, Sexual Proxies, and Discrimination by Design, 26 CUNY L. Rev. 57 (2023) . Link: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/clr/vol26/iss1/4/
Californians for Privacy: How the War on Sex Work is Stripping you Privacy Rights (2022). Link: https://ca4privacy.org/
Rights Not Rescue: What Sex Workers in Wisconsin Need. Our Lives Magazine (2021) Link: https://ourliveswisconsin.com/article/rights-not-rescue-what-sex-workers-in-wisconsin-need/#:~:text=Rights%20Not%20Rescue%20is%20a,sex%20worker%20activist%20Alex%20Corona. (Authors from Wisconsin)
This is what will make sex work safer in New York (2021). Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/17/opinion/decriminalize-sex-work-new-york.html
The Equitable Case for Sex Work (2020). Link: https://ourliveswisconsin.com/article/the-equitable-case-for-sex-work/ (Author from Wisconsin)
Interview with Nina Luo, ‘What Does Criminalizing People Get Us, and What Does It Get Them?’ (2020). Link: https://fair.org/home/what-does-criminalizing-people-get-us-and-what-does-it-get-them/
As a former sex worker, here's why we should decriminalize what consenting adults agree to do (2019). Link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2019/04/26/decriminalizing-sex-work-help-marginalized-communities-column/3534885002/ (Author from Wisconsin)
Liberal Feminism Has a Sex Work Problem (2019). Link: https://newrepublic.com/article/155481/liberal-feminism-sex-work-problem
How Decriminalizing Sex Work Became a 2020 Campaign Issue (2019). Link: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/07/how-decriminalizing-sex-work-became-a-2020-campaign-issue/
About those Prostitution Stings: A local sex worker says the stings are a waste and ruin lives. Police say they’re trying to combat trafficking and other crimes (2018). Link: https://www.thecitypages.com/news-opinion/about-those-prostitution-stings/ (Author from Wisconsin)
"Badger State Infamy" Wisconsin's Early Sex Trade (2017). Link: https://www.wisbar.org/NewsPublications/WisconsinLawyer/Pages/Article.aspx?Volume=90&Issue=9&ArticleID=25915 (Author from Wisconsin)
Butterfly (Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network) UNDERSTANDING MIGRANT SEX WORKERS. Link: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e4835857fcd934d19bd9673/t/5e8902eb7de63058bf1fa6c6/1586037486472/Understanding+Migrant+Sex+workers.pdf
Prostitution decriminalized: Rhode Island’s experiment. Link: https://whyy.org/articles/prostitution-decriminalized-rhode-islands-experiment/
Lies, damned lies and sex work statistics. Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/03/27/lies-damned-lies-and-sex-work-statistics/
Behind the Rescue: How Anti-Trafficking Investigations and Policies Harm Migrant Sex Workers. Link: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e4835857fcd934d19bd9673/t/5e890269138b9761ef91e9ed/1586037364780/Behind+the+rescue.pdf
Audio / Visual
Rights Not Rescue featured on WORT, 89.9 Community Radio in Madison, WI
This American Life episode 740, There. I fixed it. Act 1: Catching a Deer when you wanted lions (July 2, 2021) Link: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/740/there-i-fixed-it/act-one-16
When the United States Congress saw a problem — sex trafficking — it acted to eliminate it. Producer Lina Misitzis looked into how the law played out for its targets and the others swept up in the “fix.”
Books & Research
Mac, J. and Smith, M. (2018) Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight For Sex Workers’ Rights. London: Verso Books.
Data for Progress report: Decriminalizing Survival. Link: https://www.filesforprogress.org/memos/decriminalizing-sex-work.pdf
Bromwich, R. and DeJong, M. M. (Eds.). (2015). Mothers, Mothering And Sex Work. Bradford: Demeter Press.
Laing, M. (Ed.). (2015). Queer Sex Work. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Grant, Melissa G. (2014). Playing The Whore: The Work of Sex Work. London: Verso Books.
Ditmore, M. H., Levy, A., & Willman, A. (2013). Sex Work Matters: Exploring Money, Power and Intimacy in the Sex Industry. London: Zed Books.