Independent Female Escort’s Strategies for Coping with Sex Work Related Stigma

Koken, Juline A.

doi:10.1007/s12119-011-9120-3

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“…Clients are criminalized, 28 yet there is ample evidence that criminalization increases workers' isolation, which further exacerbates their risk of violence and has a documented effect of decreasing their engagement with health and social services. 6,13,30,31 The lack of guidelines also prevents conditions from being placed on client behaviors concerning substance use, condom practices, and terms of payment. 10,29 Sex workers are left to rely on intuition and potentially dangerous practices, unlike other sectors of labor afforded protections through occupational health and safety regulations.…”

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“…Greater engagement and uptake of public health and occupational health and safety principles are also required. Evidence from Nevada 10 and Australia 30,31 illustrates the effectiveness of guidelines about working conditions, personal and protective equipment, workplace violence, workers' substance use, and workers' compensation in brothels. Current regulations are often limited to the prevention of sexually transmitted infections and to sex workers.…”

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Strategies and Challenges in Preventing Violence Against Canadian Indoor Sex Workers

Bungay

Guţă

2018

Am J Public Health

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Objectives. To examine indoor sex workers' strategies in preventing workplace violence and influential socio-structural conditions.Methods. Data included qualitative interviews with 85 sex workers in British Columbia, Canada, from 2014 through 2016. For analyses, we used interpretive thematic techniques informed by World Health Organization position statements on violence.Results. Robbery, nonpayment, financial exploitation, and privacy violations were frequent types of violence perpetrated by clients, landlords, and neighbors. We identified 2 themes that depicted how sex workers prevented violence and mitigated its effects: (1) navigating physical spaces and (2) navigating client relationships.Conclusions. Sex workers' diverse strategies to prevent violence and mitigate its effects are creative and effective in many circumstances. These are limited, however, by the absence of legal and public health regulations governing occupational health and safety and stigma associated with sex work. Public Health Implications. Occupational health and safety regulatory policies that set conditions for clients' substance and condom use within commercial sex transactions are required. Revisions to the current legal regulations governing prostitution are critical to support optimal work environments that reduce the likelihood of violence. These revisions must recognize sex work as a form of labor versus victimization. (Am J

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Strategies and Challenges in Preventing Violence Against Canadian Indoor Sex Workers

Bungay

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2018

Am J Public Health

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“…As such, we see similar strategies to other sex workers, including concealment, narrative reframing, and normalization (Koken 2012;Wong, Holroyd, and Bingham 2011). However, professional norms surrounding the dominatrix profession mean that pro-dommes customarily do not have sex with clients, reducing some aspects of whore stigma.…”

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“…In order to manage stigma, those with deviant identities use stigma management techniques, including "information management" through various levels of concealment (Miller 2012;Stiles and Clark 2011), selective disclosure (Koken 2012;Winnick and Bodkin 2008), and covering (Nack 2008;Roschelle and Kaufman 2004). Techniques involving hiding one's deviant identity or "passing" are only possible for those whose stigma is not immediately apparent to others, who have "discreditable" as opposed to "discredited" identities (Goffman 1963).…”

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“…Research demonstrates various strategies used by sex workers to divide their personal and professional worlds, such as physically living away from work and not dating customers (Forsyth and Deshotels 1998) and limiting the extent to which they develop intimate personal relationships (Koken 2012). In addition, sex workers have been found to cognitively separate their authentic selves from their sex worker selves through the use of pseudonyms and onstage personas (Koken 2012;Sanders 2005;Scambler 2007;Thompson et al 2003).…”

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A Constellation of Stigmas: Intersectional Stigma Management and the Professional Dominatrix

Levey

Pinsky

2014

Deviant Behavior

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In this article, we explore stigma management among dominatrices, a relatively understudied profession within the literature on sex work. Our analysis is based on in-depth interviews with current and former dominatrices and published memoirs and blogs written by women who have worked in the industry. We argue that the professional dominatrix occupies a unique position within the sex industry, responding to stigma directed toward her both as a sex worker and practitioner of sadomasochism. Our research has implications for understanding the management of intersecting stigmas and the relationship between stigma management and social ideologies of gender, sexuality, and sex work.

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“I don't think I can help you anymore.” Sex workers' experiences of accessing mental health services in Ireland

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McGarry,

Leacy

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Sexuality Gender & Policy

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This paper is based on a study funded by the National Office for Suicide Prevention (NOSP), exploring sex worker mental health through a qualitative study of eighteen sex workers living and working in the Republic of Ireland and with participants from service provider organizations. This paper utilizes and adapts the concept of minority stress to explain how it is the social world that contributes to difficulties in managing mental health, not just for the LGBTQ+ community but explicitly for sex workers, through intersectional stigma and discrimination. Ireland introduced the Criminal Law Amendment Act (2017) based on the Nordic model of client criminalization, which sought to prosecute those that purchase sex while reducing the legal culpability of sex workers. The paper explores how the mental health of sex workers living and working under the law is impacted and the difficulties negotiating access to mental health services once participants disclose their sex work.

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Independent Female Escort’s Strategies for Coping with Sex Work Related Stigma

Cited by 88 publications

References 30 publications

Strategies and Challenges in Preventing Violence Against Canadian Indoor Sex Workers

Strategies and Challenges in Preventing Violence Against Canadian Indoor Sex Workers

A Constellation of Stigmas: Intersectional Stigma Management and the Professional Dominatrix

“I don't think I can help you anymore.” Sex workers' experiences of accessing mental health services in Ireland

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