Making sex work - the book - Australia

Making Sex Work: A Failed Experiment with Legalised Prostitution
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..... Click the link for more information. Press, 2007) by Mary Lucille Sullivan; Call Girls: Private Sex Workers in Australia (University of Western AustraliaWestern Australia, state (1991 pop. 1,409,965), 975,920 sq mi (2,527,633 sq km), Australia, comprising the entire western part of the continent. It is bounded on the N, W, and S by the Indian Ocean. Perth is the capital.
..... Click the link for more information. Press, 2007) by Roberta Perkins and Frances Lovejoy.
In the mid 1970s, when I was a young sociology student, my acquaintanceship with a number of women introduced me to the world of prostitution, particularly in what were then illegal massage parlours. Prostitutes' conditions of work and experiences with clients, police and parlour management aroused my feminist ire.
As the result of a seminar held at Melbourne University in 1977, attended by feminists and working prostitutes, the Prostitutes Action Group (PAGPag (päg), Ital. Pago, island (101 sq mi/262 sq km), in the Adriatic, off the Dalmatian coast, Croatia. Noted for its fine embroidery and lace, it also has vineyards, a fishing industry, and bauxite deposits.
..... Click the link for more information.), which eventually led to the Prostitutes Collective Victoria (PCV PCV packed-cell volume.

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The most interesting aspect of the book deals with the capture of prostitution organisations by queer theorists, sexual libertarians, business interests and government. The PCV was the first organisation in Australia to understand the nature of the HIVHIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States.
..... Click the link for more information. epidemic. It successfully lobbied for funding for needle exchanges, compulsory condom use and sexual health, constructing a close financial relationship with the state government and health department. However, in the process it lost its autonomy and was superseded by a group interested only in public health, not activism.

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  Abstract

There is now a sizeable literature examining moral panics and moral crusades in various societies, yet the literature is largely centred on the dynamics of panics and the social forces promoting them, while devoting almost no attention to the state. The state may play a key role in the process—either fanning or defusing popular alarm over a problem. In some panics, the state becomes an arena of struggle, or morality politics, between forces that promote and challenge claims regarding some social evil. The process of legislating morality provides a unique opportunity to examine the state as a dynamic actor in its own right. The article examines this in the context of the recent debate over legalizing prostitution in Western Australia.

Legalizing Prostitution

Morality Politics in Western Australia

British Journal of Criminology 49:88-105 (2009)
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