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Annual Review of Sex Research Special Issue

Prostitution Stigma and Its Effect on the Working Conditions, Personal Lives, and Health of Sex Workers

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Jana Hackathorn, Jessica Hodges, Steffon Jones & Shahzor Hashim. (2024) The guilt that guides me: religiosity, sex guilt, and the demonization of sex workers. The Journal of Social Psychology 164:3, pages 319-335.
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Nora Gnaim-Mwassi, Hila Avieli & Tova Band-Winterstein. (2024) Prostitution in the shadow of life-long sexual abuse: Arab women’s retrospective experiences. Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect 36:2, pages 117-147.
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Zachary D. Van Den Berg & Mikey Anderson. (2023) Queer Worldmaking in Sex-Positive Art Therapy: Radical Strategies for Individual Healing and Social Transformation. Art Therapy 40:4, pages 188-196.
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Maureen A. Murney, Lisa Lazarus, Nicole Herpai, Daria Pavlova, Tatiana Tarasova, Olga Balakireva, Marissa L. Becker & Robert Lorway. (2023) Sex work stigma and the recuperation of moral personhood through gendered labour: sex worker diaries in Ukraine. Culture, Health & Sexuality 25:8, pages 976-990.
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Mikael Jansson, Michaela Smith, Cecilia Benoit, Douglas Magnuson & Priscilla Healey. (2023) Challenges and Benefits of Disclosure of Sex Work to Intimate Partners. The Journal of Sex Research 60:6, pages 890-902.
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İsmail Orbay & Nilgün Küçükkaraca. (2023) Experiences of Social Service Professionals Working with Sex Workers: Unsung Heroes. Journal of Social Service Research 49:3, pages 309-322.
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Linnet Ongeri, Vincent Moshi, Christy A. Denckla, Rose Bosire, Benson Singa, Phelgona Otieno, Charity Maingi, Linet Ouma, Danvers Omolo & Veronica Manduku. (2023) Prevalence of Substance Use and Its Association with Sociodemographic and Behavioral Factors among Women Who Conduct Sex Work in Kenya. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 55:2, pages 224-232.
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Melissa A. Stockton, John Kraemer, Emmanuel Oga, Joshua Kimani, David Mbote, Caroline Kemunto, Stella Njuguna & Laura Nyblade. (2023) Validation of a Brief Internalized Sex-work Stigma Scale among Female Sex Workers in Kenya. The Journal of Sex Research 60:1, pages 146-152.
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Vicky Bungay, Adrian Guta, Colleen Varcoe, Allie Slemon, Eli Manning, Scott Comber & Melissa Perri. (2023) Gaps in health research related to sex work: an analysis of Canadian health research funding. Critical Public Health 33:1, pages 72-82.
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Nicole Herpai, Lisa Lazarus, Evelyn Forget, Olga Balakireva, Daria Pavlova, Leigh McClarty, Robert Lorway, Michael Pickles, Shajy Isac, Paul Sandstrom, Sevgi Aral, Sharmistha Mishra, Huiting Ma, James Blanchard & Marissa Becker. (2022) Exploring the dynamics of workplace typologies for sex workers in Eastern Ukraine. Global Public Health 17:9, pages 2034-2053.
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Gillian Abel & Melissa Ludeke. (2022) Business like any other? New Zealand’s brothel industry post-decriminalisation. Culture, Health & Sexuality 24:9, pages 1243-1256.
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Ashley E. Towers, Jordana N. Navarro & Thomas J. Holt. (2022) Mapping as Harm Reduction: Using GIS to Map Chatter Associated with Sex Work. Victims & Offenders 17:5, pages 679-692.
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Paul Ryan & Kathryn McGarry. (2022) ‘I miss being honest’: sex workers’ accounts of silence and disclosure with health care providers in Ireland. Culture, Health & Sexuality 24:5, pages 688-701.
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Moshoula Capous-Desyllas & Dorothy M. Goulah-Pabst. (2022) Achieving Empowerment over Shame through the Arts: A Photovoice Study Exploring Shame and Resistance among Women Sex Workers. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work 19:2, pages 228-260.
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Kahlia McCausland, Roanna Lobo, Mattea Lazarou, Jonathan Hallett, Julie Bates, Basil Donovan & Linda A. Selvey. (2022) ‘It is stigma that makes my work dangerous’: experiences and consequences of disclosure, stigma and discrimination among sex workers in Western Australia. Culture, Health & Sexuality 24:2, pages 180-195.
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Mille Huglstad, Ingrid Louise Isabell Halvorsen, Hans Jonsson & Kristina Tomra Nielsen. (2022) “Some of us actually choose to do this”: The meanings of sex work from the perspective of female sex workers in Denmark. Journal of Occupational Science 29:1, pages 68-81.
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Molefi Motsoeneng. (2021) South African female sex workers’ interactions with law enforcement: An exploratory study. Journal of Psychology in Africa 31:6, pages 622-626.
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Darvelle Hutchins & Leslie R. Nelson. (2021) Setting the Agenda: Black Families Matter. Journal of Family Communication 21:4, pages 322-331.
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Michael G. Curtis, Carissa D’Aniello, Markie L. C. Twist, Barbara G. Brents & Brandon Eddy. (2021) ‘We are naked waitresses who deliver sex’: a phenomenological study of circumstantial sex workers’ lives. Sexual and Relationship Therapy 36:4, pages 438-464.
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Ayelet Prior & Einat Peled. (2021) Identity Construction of Men Who Pay Women for Sex: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis. The Journal of Sex Research 58:6, pages 724-742.
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Catherine Tomko, Danielle Friedman Nestadt, Saba Rouhani, Bradley E. Silberzahn, Katherine Haney, Ju Nyeong Park, Noya Galai, Carmen H. Logie & Susan G. Sherman. (2021) Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Construct Validity of the Internalized Sex Work Stigma Scale among a Cohort of Cisgender Female Sex Workers in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The Journal of Sex Research 58:6, pages 713-723.
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Sunny Sinha & Indulata Prasad. (2021) Examining hopes, aspirations, and future plans of women in non-brothel-based sex work in Kolkata, India. Culture, Health & Sexuality 23:7, pages 913-926.
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Elsabé du Plessis, Claudyne Chevrier, Lisa Lazarus, Sushena Reza-Paul, Syed Hafeez Ur Rahman, Manjula Ramaiah, Lisa Avery & Robert Lorway. (2020) Pragmatic women: negotiating sex work, pregnancy, and parenting in Mysore, South India. Culture, Health & Sexuality 22:10, pages 1177-1190.
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Iccha Basnyat. (2020) Stigma, agency, and motherhood: Exploring the performativity of dual mother–female sex workers identities in Kathmandu, Nepal. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication 13:2, pages 98-113.
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Cecilia Benoit, Renay Maurice, Gillian Abel, Michaela Smith, Mikael Jansson, Priscilla Healey & Douglas Magnuson. (2020) ‘I dodged the stigma bullet’: Canadian sex workers’ situated responses to occupational stigma. Culture, Health & Sexuality 22:1, pages 81-95.
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Nadav Antebi-Gruszka, Daniel Spence & Stella Jendrzejewski. (2019) Guidelines for mental health practice with clients who engage in sex work. Sexual and Relationship Therapy 34:3, pages 339-354.
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Gary W. Harper, Laura Jadwin-Cakmak, Emily Cherenak & Patrick Wilson. (2019) Critical Consciousness-Based HIV Prevention Interventions for Black Gay and Bisexual Male Youth. American Journal of Sexuality Education 14:1, pages 109-133.
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