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New Zealand’s relatively recent decriminalisation of sex work,
and its unusual success in combatting COVID-19, have both attracted
international media interest. This accessibly-written book uses the
lens of news media coverage to consider the pandemic’s impacts on
both sex workers and public perceptions of the industry. Analysing
the stigmatisation of sex work in both short- and long-term
contexts, the book addresses the impacts of intersectional
oppressions or marginalisations on sex workers, and the ways sex
work advocacy relates to other social justice movements. It unpicks
how New Zealand’s decriminalisation approach functions under
stress, offering valuable information for advocates, activists and
scholars.
Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker considers how sex work is
produced in news media narratives, a site where much of the general
public draws its understanding of the industry in the absence of
lived interaction with it. Taking New Zealand as a case study, this
book considers an emerging discourse of acceptability for some sex
workers, primarily those who do low-volume indoor work. Their
acceptability is established in comparison with other kinds of sex
workers, resulting in a redistribution but not a reduction of
stigma. The conditions attached to acceptability reflect persistent
anxieties aboutsex work: workers who are acceptable must give the
impression that the sexual labour of the job is enjoyable and
virtually indistinguishable from their personal life, eliding the
work involved. Unacceptable workers have existing marginalisations
magnified by their association with the industry, with migrant sex
workers produced as devious or exploited, and transgender women’s
involvement with the industry used to deny them the right to public
space. The conditions attached to acceptability reveal how
neoliberal discourses of choice, desire, authenticity, and personal
responsibility inform the formation of sex work in the public eye.
Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker considers how sex work is
produced in news media narratives, a site where much of the general
public draw their understanding of the industry in the absence of
lived interaction with it. Taking New Zealand as a case study, the
book considers an emerging discourse of acceptability for some sex
workers, primarily those who do low-volume indoor work. Their
acceptability is established in comparison with other kinds of sex
workers, resulting in a redistribution but not a reduction of
stigma. The conditions attached to acceptability reflect persistent
anxieties about prostitution: workers who are acceptable must give
the impression that the sexual labour of the job is enjoyable and
virtually indistinguishable from their personal life, eliding the
work involved. Unacceptable workers have existing marginalisations
magnified by their association with the industry, with migrant sex
workers produced as devious or exploited, and transgender women's
involvement with the industry used to deny them the right to public
space. The conditions attached to acceptability reveal how
neoliberal postfeminist discourses of choice, desire, authenticity,
and personal responsibility inform the formation of sex work in the
public eye.
More than 15 years have passed since the law regarding sex workers
in New Zealand has changed. As a model it has been endorsed as best
practice by international organisations, leading scholars and sex
worker-led organisations. Yet in some corners, speculation is
ongoing regarding its impacts on the ground. Written by an
international group of experts, this groundbreaking collection
provides the much needed in-depth research into how
decriminalisation is playing out in sex workers' lives and how
different groups of sex workers are experiencing it, while
uncovering the challenges and tensions that remain to be negotiated
in this field. Using the evidence from New Zealand, it makes an
invaluable contribution to the international debates regarding sex
work laws and the global struggle to realise sex workers' rights.
More than 15 years have passed since the law regarding sex workers
in New Zealand has changed. As a model it has been endorsed as best
practice by international organisations, leading scholars and sex
worker-led organisations. Yet in some corners, speculation is
ongoing regarding its impacts on the ground. Written by an
international group of experts, this groundbreaking collection
provides the much needed in-depth research into how
decriminalisation is playing out in sex workers' lives and how
different groups of sex workers are experiencing it, while
uncovering the challenges and tensions that remain to be negotiated
in this field. Using the evidence from New Zealand, it makes an
invaluable contribution to the international debates regarding sex
work laws and the global struggle to realise sex workers' rights.
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