Resources

Helpful links, articles, and reference material relating to sex worker rights and decriminalization

The Freedom Network USA

GAATW

Sex Work Myths and How To Spot Them

Norma Jean’s Encyclopedia of Stats and Facts

Maggie McNeill: The Honest Courtesan

Global Network of Sex Worker Projects

Resource Page
Don’t Hate or Conflate!: Trafficking Brief from NSWP

Learn More About Human Trafficking Through Facts, Not Fear

www.nswp.org/resource/new-directions-research-human-trafficking

The Nordic Model: A Failed Experiment

www.nswp.org/resource/the-swedish-law-criminalise-clients-failed-experiment-social-engineering

SWOP-USA

Sex Worker Outreach Project – United States
Fact Sheets
SWOP Behind Bars

Recommended Reading

https://swopbehindbars.org/the-prison-library/

Legalizing Prostitution: Pros and Cons

https://prostitution.procon.org

Summary of federal laws, state laws, and Nevada county laws

http://prostitution.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000119#1

Movies: About Sex Workers, By Sex Workers

Techno-thriller: Cam

The Sessions

Book List

Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk, by Melinda Chateauvert
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17797399-sex-workers-unite

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights, by Molly Smith and Juno Mac
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36424668-revolting-prostitutes?from_search=true

Naked Truth: Strip Clubs, Democracy, and a Christian Right, by Judith Lynn Hanna
https://judithhanna.com/books/naked-truth/

Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law, by Alison Bass
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25674804-getting-screwed

State of Sex, by Barbara Brents
http://brents.faculty.unlv.edu//brents/state_of_sex.html

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, by Adrienne Maree Brown
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29633913-emergent-strategy?from_search=true

The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling, by Arlie Russell Hochschild
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/268673.The_Managed_Heart?from_search=true

All About Human Trafficking Intervention Courts: Effective?

https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/ghjp-releases-reports-prostitution-diversion-programs

https://law.yale.edu/system/files/area/center/ghjp/documents/diversion_from_justice_pdp_report_ghjp_2018rev.pdf

https://law.yale.edu/system/files/area/center/ghjp/documents/un-meetable_promises_htic_report_ghjp_2018rev.pdf