Understanding Exploitation in Consensual SexWork to Inform Occupational Health & Safety Regulation

<p>The impetus behind this Special Issue emerged from a quest to move beyond</p><p>binary thinking in the contemporary period about people who sell sexual services</p><p>including recent disputes about sex trafficking vs. prostitution and</p><p>criminalization vs. decriminalization to encourage theoretical and empirical</p><p>scholarship by exploring how sex work actually operates under different regulatory</p><p>regimes. The volume includes contributions from scholars of different social</p><p>sciences backgrounds based in five countries- New Zealand the United Kingdom</p><p>Brazil the United States and Canada. The article topics range widely</p><p>and both quantitative and qualitative research methods are showcased. The empirical</p><p>evidence presented adds to our current understanding of the complexity</p><p>of this phenomenon of sex commerce/prostitution which is found to be largely</p><p>a problem of social inequality within and across capitalist societies. The authors</p><p>call for policies to address occupational and societal wide inequities faced by sex</p><p>workers across many countries.</p>