sex work
Sex work has never been for women
February 11, 2025By: AC, SFU Student Content warning: brief mention of child exploitation and descriptions of sex work. As society becomes more accepting of sex-positive narratives, it simultaneously created a new landscape of sex work for young girls. Platforms like OnlyFans have simplified and encouraged access to the new digital age of sex work; instead of having to be in physical contact with a stranger, you can be digitally connected and seemingly not need to worry about any potential danger that comes with physical intimacy. OnlyFans especially rose to prominence in mid-2020; as sex work was pushed out of the physical world,…
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Sex workers need legal protection
March 12, 2024By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer Content warning: mentions of sex trafficking and sexual violence. Sex workers should be treated professionally, and are worthy of respect. Canadian legislation is very behind in properly recognizing sex workers. The criminalization of sex work…
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By Us, For Us reports pressing circumstances faced by BC sex workers
May 16, 2023By: Eden Chipperfield, News Writer The By Us, For Us project surveyed over 200 sex workers across Metro Vancouver and Southern Vancouver Island; it highlights essential topics like the COVID-19 pandemic, the criminalization of sex work, the ongoing overdose crisis,…
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The effects of COVID-19 on sex workers
February 22, 2023By: Natalie Cooke, News Writer Ahmed Al-Rawi, an SFU Communication professor, recently published a study outlining the effects of COVID-19 on sex workers, including their stigmatization in society and representations on social media. He said in an interview with The…
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The OnlyFans explicit content ban further stigmatizes sex work, despite reversal
September 17, 2021by Victoria Lopatka, Staff Writer OnlyFans is a subscription-based platform with “130 million registered users and over 2 million creators.” Users pay for subscriptions that give them access to creators’ photos and videos. Though OnlyFans is not explicitly for sexual…
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The Good, the Alright, and the Just Plain Bad of sex work in media
February 7, 2018By: Victoria Lopatka Sex work has been featured openly in the media since at least the 1950s, but we haven’t necessarily gotten better at portraying it in the last seventy or so years. Some shows and movies still feed into…
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The double life lived by student sex workers
May 24, 2016As Ava* embarks on the first semester of her master’s program, she is relieved that the admissions committee at her graduate school didn’t find out about one of her part-time jobs. The University of Calgary environmental sciences student dabbled in…
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