Is your house a brothel? Prostitution policy, provision of sex services from home, and the maintenance of respectable domesticity

Prior, J; Crofts, P

Is your house a brothel? Prostitution policy, provision of sex services from home, and the maintenance of respectable domesticity

Prior, J

Crofts, P

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Social Policy and Society, 2015, 14 (1), pp. 125 - 134
Issue Date:: 2015-10-18

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dc.contributor.author	Prior, J https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6145-5207	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Crofts, P https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6018-7159	en_US
dc.date.issued	2015-10-18	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Social Policy and Society, 2015, 14 (1), pp. 125 - 134	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1474-7464	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/30586
dc.description.abstract	Copyright © 2014 Cambridge University Press. Policy debates on commercial sex services provide increasingly complex insights into work on the street and in large commercial sex premises, yet remain largely silent on the contribution of the domestic realm to commercial sex, despite estimates that it accounts for a significant proportion of all commercial sex transactions. Policies that affect home-based sex work are ambiguous and at times contradictory, veering from the promotion of working from home to anxieties about the assumed offensiveness of sex work. These policies have been often developed without direct consideration of home-based sex work and in the absence of evidence. Remedying this silence, this article analyses policy development for, and the experiences of, home-based sex workers in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. The article concludes that working from home provides sex workers with opportunities for autonomy and wellbeing that are not available in other sex service environments, with minimal amenity impacts to the community.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Social Policy and Society	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1017/S1474746414000335	en_US
dc.title	Is your house a brothel? Prostitution policy, provision of sex services from home, and the maintenance of respectable domesticity	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)/Institute For Sustainable Futures
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Abstract:

Copyright © 2014 Cambridge University Press. Policy debates on commercial sex services provide increasingly complex insights into work on the street and in large commercial sex premises, yet remain largely silent on the contribution of the domestic realm to commercial sex, despite estimates that it accounts for a significant proportion of all commercial sex transactions. Policies that affect home-based sex work are ambiguous and at times contradictory, veering from the promotion of working from home to anxieties about the assumed offensiveness of sex work. These policies have been often developed without direct consideration of home-based sex work and in the absence of evidence. Remedying this silence, this article analyses policy development for, and the experiences of, home-based sex workers in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. The article concludes that working from home provides sex workers with opportunities for autonomy and wellbeing that are not available in other sex service environments, with minimal amenity impacts to the community.

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