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Donate! SCOT-PEP is a small community-based charity in Leith which relies on donations from the public to maintain essential support and services for sex workers. Cheques and postal orders can be sent to the address on the right, or you can donate by credit card. Every little bit helps!
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Useful reading on sex work issues
Basic reading about sex work
Clients
Feminist perspectives on sex work
Media bias
Migration & trafficking
Research & statistics
Sex work around the world
Swedish model
Workers' rights
Basic reading about sex work
Bound, Not Gagged
Prostitutes' Education Network
Sex Work: A Risky Business - Teela Sanders (Willan Publishing 2005)
Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry – eds. Priscilla Alexander & Frederique Delacoste (2nd edition, Cleis Press 1998)
$pread magazine
Working Sex: Sex Workers Write About a Changing Industry - ed. Annie Oakley (Seal Press 2008)
Clients
A Commentary on ‘Challenging Men’s Demand for Prostitution in Scotland: A Research Report Based on Interviews with 110 Men who Bought Women in Prostitution’ (Jan Macleod, Melissa Farley, Lynn Anderson, Jacqueline Golding, 2008) – Teela Sanders et al (PDF)
Dear John – Mirha-Soleil Ross
Fair play (PDF)
Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write about their Clients – ed. Matt Bernstein Sycamore (Haworth Press 2000)
Feminist perspectives on sex work
Decriminalization, ending demand, and choice: Feministe interviews the Sex Workers Project
Ghetto Feminism - Amber Dawn
Prostitution seen as Violence Against Women: A supportive or oppressive view? - Liv Jessen
A response to Janice Raymond's '10 reasons for not legalizing prostitution' - Helen J. Self (PDF)
Whores and Other Feminists - ed. Jill Nagle (Routledge 1997)
Media bias
Empowering Words (Bangkok Post)
The Myth of the Liberal Media, or Further Evidence that the NTY is an Elitist Paper
Migration & trafficking
Foreign Prostitution in Oslo: Pro Sentret's Knowledge and Experiences - Av Bjørg Norli (PDF)
The Countertraffickers: Rescuing the Victims of the Global Sex Trade - William Finnegan
The Myth of the Migrant: interview with Laura Maria Agustín
Prostitution Panic: The Growing Hysteria over Sex Trafficking - Ronald Weitzer
Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry - Laura Maria Agustín (London: Zed Books 2007)
The Social Construction of Sex Trafficking: Ideology and Institutionalization of a Moral Crusade - Ronald Weitzer (PDF)
Susie Bright interviews Laura Maria Agustín
TAMPEP Position Paper on Migration and Sex Work (PDF)
Trafficking: Return of the 'White Slavery' Scare? - Brendan O'Neill
The 'White Slavery' Panic - Joanne McNeil
Research & statistics
Flawed Theory and Method in Studies of Prostitution - Ronald Weitzer (PDF)
Sex Work, the Palermo Protocol, and HIV/AIDS - Paul Williams (paper presented by the HIV/AIDS technical adviser of UNODC to the Global Consultation on HIV/AIDS and Sex Work, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 13 July 2006)
Sex work around the world
Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition – eds. Kamala Kempadoo & Jo Doezema (Routledge 1998)
Network of Sex Work Projects
Resourcing Health & Education in the Sex Industry (RhED), Australia
Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Task Force (SWEAT), South Africa
Taking the Pledge (13-minute film)
Swedish model
Against the "Swedish Model" - Laura Schwartz
Lies About Sexwork in Sweden - Isabella Lund
Sexworkers and Allies Network in Sweden
Sexworkers Critique of Swedish Prostitution Policy - Petra Östergren
The Swedish Model of Criminalizing the Purchase of Sexual Services - comments by Dr Helen J. Self
Workers' rights
International Committee for the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE)
International Union of Sex Workers (IUSW)
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SCOT-PEP
70 Newhaven Road
Edinburgh EH6 5QG
Tel: 0131 622 7550
Fax: 0131 622 7551
E-mail: voice at scot-pep.org.uk
SCOT-PEP is a company limited by guarantee (Company No. 140511)
and is recognised as a charity by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (Scottish Charity No. SC 020657).
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