Sex Work 101 - Talk by Anarchist Sex Worker in Ireland

This is the audio of a talk – Sex Work 101 - given by a member of the Workers Solidarity Movement after a WSM Dublin branch meeting in April 2017. As the name suggests, the talk covers the basics of sex work as work and the merits of several legal frameworks.

A new Sexual Offences Bill was passed under the radar in spring 2017. First published in 2015, a seemingly unlikely alliance between religious conservatives and liberals pushed for the criminalisation of the purchase of sexual services, also known as the 'Swedish Model', under the Turn Off the Red Light campaign despite being practically unanimously opposed by actual sex workers.

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Talk begins – 0:50
Q&A – 15:00
Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI)
http://sexworkersallianceireland.org/
Ugly Mugs Ireland Reports
https://twitter.com/uglymugsie/status/851423682287329280
The Laws Sex Workers Really Want (TED Talk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc-n852sv3E
Irish Mirror - Irish Men Continue to Pay for Sex Even Though It's Against the Law
www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/irish-men-continue-pay-sex-10191751

Sex Work Decriminalised in New Zealand
https://www.opendemocracy.net/beyondslavery/fraser-crichton/decriminalising-sex-work-in-new-zealand-its-history-and-impact
http://www.nzpc.org.nz/decriminalisation/

Turn off the Red Light: Should we advocate it?
http://www.wsm.ie/c/red-light-advocate-anti-sex-work
Sex and Sex Work from an Anarcha-Feminist Perspective
http://www.wsm.ie/c/sex-work-anarcha-feminist-perspective
Sex Workers Say “No” to the Sexual Offences Bill
http://www.wsm.ie/c/sex-workers-no-sexual-offences-bill-ireland
Stormont Bans Paying for Sex Work
http://www.wsm.ie/c/stormont-bans-paying-sex

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017
http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/Criminal_Law_(Sexual_Offences)_Act_2017
UN Child Sex Ring in Haiti
https://www.apnews.com/e6ebc331460345c5abd4f57d77f535c1/AP-Exclusive:-UN-child-sex-ring-left-victims-but-no-arrests