Repeal FOSTA and Decriminalize Sex Work

Decriminalize prostituted women.

I read with amusement the proposal to increase by one year the training for internal medicine specialists. Does everybody today want to be known as having a “special skill”? I submit that if residents who complete four years of training in internal medicine find themselves lacking skills, it is the training that is deficient, not the time spent training. Four years is a substantial amount of ti...

Decriminalize drugs and use public health.

Sex work and HIV/AIDS

■ While sex work is a universal phenomenon, it is also frequently illegal and, therefore, clandestine. This makes it difficult to determine the true extent of the sex work industry, although it is acknowledged to be substantial and has apparently been increasing in recent years. This increase has been attributed to various factors, including changes in political, civil and socioeconomic conditi...

Sex work and HIV/AIDS

Sex-work harm reduction.

Sex work is an extremely dangerous profession. The use of harm-reduction principles can help to safeguard sex workers' lives in the same way that drug users have benefited from drug-use harm reduction. Sex workers are exposed to serious harms: drug use, disease, violence, discrimination, debt, criminalisation, and exploitation (child prostitution, trafficking for sex work, and exploitation of m...