Seth Walsh
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1. Economic Function
Prostitution trades sexual access for income, arising where wealth and poverty meet. Extreme poverty is a primary supply‐side driver
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2. Class Stratification of Sex Work
Sex markets stratify like any other: luxury escorts serve elites; street workers serve the dispossessed. Working conditions, pay, and police risk correlate with class position.
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3. Entry Pathways
Low wages, debt, child trafficking, and migration funnel lower-class women and LGBTQ+ people into sex work.
4. Stigma as Class Control
Prostitution stigma marks those at the bottom, reinforcing class and gender hierarchies. Result: six-fold higher affective-disorder rates versus the general population.
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5. Legal Regimes
Individualist, high-income nations lean toward legalization or regulation; collectivist or unequal states lean toward prohibition, compounding class penalties.
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6. Urban Illustration
Cambridge: biotech wealth and £1 m houses coexist with hidden brothels staffed by trafficked women—an archetype of class polarity.
7. Exiting Constraints
Leaving sex work demands capital, alternative jobs, and social acceptance—resources scarce for the poor.
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8. Policy Frame
2024 UN guidance: treat sex work as labor, secure rights, end punitive policing—aimed at class harm reduction.
Prostitution trades sexual access for income, arising where wealth and poverty meet. Extreme poverty is a primary supply‐side driver
Modelling the prevalence of prostitution under the influence of poverty: A deterministic vs. stochastic approach
Globally, there is a widespread awareness of poverty-related challenges. It's important to acknowledge that poverty is one of the key factors influenc…
2. Class Stratification of Sex Work
Sex markets stratify like any other: luxury escorts serve elites; street workers serve the dispossessed. Working conditions, pay, and police risk correlate with class position.
Visibilizing the economic oppression of sex workers and the imperative of donor support
Sex workers worldwide continue to face violence and barriers to accessing economic rights due to stigma, discrimination and criminalization. In the fa…
3. Entry Pathways
Low wages, debt, child trafficking, and migration funnel lower-class women and LGBTQ+ people into sex work.
4. Stigma as Class Control
Prostitution stigma marks those at the bottom, reinforcing class and gender hierarchies. Result: six-fold higher affective-disorder rates versus the general population.
Frontiers | Prevalence, risk and resilience factors of mental health conditions among female sex workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis
IntroductionFemale sex workers are a vulnerable hard-to-reach group. Research in this field is scarce due to several issues, such as methodological difficult...
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5. Legal Regimes
Individualist, high-income nations lean toward legalization or regulation; collectivist or unequal states lean toward prohibition, compounding class penalties.
Individualism and the legal status of prostitution
We know very little about why the legal status of prostitution varies across countries. Drawing on central arguments in the normative literature on th…
6. Urban Illustration
Cambridge: biotech wealth and £1 m houses coexist with hidden brothels staffed by trafficked women—an archetype of class polarity.
7. Exiting Constraints
Leaving sex work demands capital, alternative jobs, and social acceptance—resources scarce for the poor.
Crossroads of choice: a qualitative study of the factors influencing decisions to transition from sex work among women engaged in sex work in Southern Uganda - PMC
Women engaged in commercial sex work (WESW) are exposed to behavioral, biological, and structural factors that exacerbate their risk of HIV infection and other sexually transmitted infections. While commercial sex work may appear voluntary, WESW are ...
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8. Policy Frame
2024 UN guidance: treat sex work as labor, secure rights, end punitive policing—aimed at class harm reduction.
