By Jasmine Sankofa, AIUSA Sexual and Reproductive Rights Advocate
Intercourse tasks are criminalized through the entire usa, typically as misdemeanor offenses. Just like the means the Unites States treats and criminalizes medication usage, the policing of intercourse work exacerbates stigma, compromises usage of resources, warrants physical physical violence, and it is steeped in racial disparities. Females of color, specially Ebony transgender and cisgender women, girls, and femmes, are specially susceptible. Because intercourse work and intercourse trafficking are conflated, interventions are dedicated to abolishing the intercourse industry in place of eliminating structural problems that drive exploitation.
From profiling to remove queries, from discarded condoms1 to forcible and extorted sex—law enforcement is a frequent perpetrator of physical violence against intercourse employees. (more…)