CO Quickly Advances the Safe Reporting Assaults Suffered by Sex Workers Act

April 20, 2022

The Safe Reporting Assaults Suffered by Sex Workers Act, HB22-1288, allows sex workers to come forward to report a crime, access medical or emergency services, or both, if they are in need or witness another in need of assistance, without fear of arrest for prostitution.

The bill’s lead sponsor, Rep. Brianna Tetote (D), was prompted to pursue and introduce the legislation after learning that her friend, Pasha Eve, had suffered a brutal attack while engaging in sex work. Sex work is not inherently dangerous, but predators leverage the fact that sex workers will often forego reporting crimes for fear of arrest. As Eve recounted to Westword, “He told me, ‘Who are you going to tell? What are you going to do? Because if you call the police, you’ll be arrested.’ He wasn’t wrong. The system is set up so that sex workers are easy prey for predators, and even for human traffickers, who use the crime of sex work as a reason their victims can’t get away. They’ll say, ‘Go to the police and you’ll be arrested,’ and a lot of times, they’re right. It’s not okay that traffickers and abusers are able to use the judicial system against sex workers — and that’s what I told the committee. This is a common-sense bill that says if you’re assaulted, you should be able to go to the police without fear of being arrested yourself.”

The Safe Reporting Assaults Suffered by Sex Workers Act has moved through the CO Legislature at lightning speed. Introduced on March 9, 2022, and unanimously approved by both the House and Senate, it was sent to the Governor’s desk on April 20, 2022. Garnering unanimous, bi-partisan support on almost any issue is rare these days. The overwhelming support for the bill highlights how critical it is to allow sex workers and survivors of human trafficking, who are often arrested even when being exploited, to come forward to seek medical attention and justice. The bill will not only allow for access and equitable treatment in the criminal justice system, it is also good public health policy.

Barring a veto by the Governor, Colorado will become the seventh state to enact this type of legislation, allowing sex workers and surivors of human trafficking to access critical support, should they so choose. Referred to as “Immunity” or “Good Samaritan” laws, these bills are an important incremental step to improving public health and safety on the path to decriminalization of consensual adult work. Utah, Montana, California, Oregon, New Hampshire, and Vermont have all passed this vital legislation. Bills allowing sex workers to seek medical care and to report crimes committed against them or others without fear of arrest, were also introduced in New York, Rhode Island, Nebraska, Hawaii, and Tennessee this year. Unfortunately, these bills have yet to advance in any of these states.

Until each state passes a law similar to Colorado’s, and ultimately, until consensual adult sex work is decriminalized, predators will continue to harm sex workers and survivors of human trafficking with impunity. These laws allow sex workers and trafficked people to safely report crimes and seek medical care without the fear that they themselves will be criminalized and subject to arrest and incarceration. Additionally, they equip law enforcement entities with an increased ability to identify, investigate, and convict perpetrators of violence and trafficking. DSW will continue to advocate for this common sense life-saving measure.

To read more about “Good Samaritan” laws related to sex work and human trafficking, visit our comprehensive fact sheet here.

Rep. Brianna Titone

Rep. Brianna Titone (Courtesy of Brianna Titone)

DSW Newsletter #35 (April 2022)

DSW Testified on Important Sex Work Bills in RI

April 5, 2022 DSW’s legal director, Melissa Broudo, and staff attorney, Rebecca Cleary, traveled to Rhode Island to testify in support of three important bills making their way through the Rhode Island legislature. As DSW works towards...
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CO Quickly Advances the Safe Reporting Assaults Suffered by Sex Workers Act

April 20, 2022 The Safe Reporting Assaults Suffered by Sex Workers Act, HB22-1288, allows sex workers to come forward to report a crime, access medical or emergency services, or both, if they are in need or witness another...
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CO Quickly Advances the Safe Reporting Assaults Suffered by Sex Workers Act

DSW Report Finds Strong Racial and Gender Biases in Prostitution and Trafficking Enforcement

April 15, 2022 DSW’s new report, “By the Numbers: New York’s Treatment of Sex Workers and Trafficking Survivors,” examined data that had not previously been examined in its totality. Our analysis demonstrates that racial and gender biases...
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DSW Report Finds Strong Racial and Gender Biases in Prostitution and Trafficking Enforcement

Oregon Sex Workers Committee’s Human Rights Commission

April 11, 2022 The Oregon Sex Workers Committee (OSWC) hosted its second Human Rights Commission Hearing. The hearing, held in Eugene, OR, brought together a diverse group of individuals including sex workers, allies, and members of law...
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Oregon Sex Workers Committee’s Human Rights Commission

STI Awareness Month

April 1, 2022 Each April, the American Sexual Health Organization (ASHA) recognizes Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Awareness Month. Additionally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recognize STI Awareness Week from April 10-16. According to ASHA:...
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STI Awareness Month

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DSW Report Finds Strong Racial and Gender Biases in Prostitution and Trafficking Enforcement

April 15, 2022

DSW’s new report, “By the Numbers: New York’s Treatment of Sex Workers and Trafficking Survivors,” examined data that had not previously been examined in its totality. Our analysis demonstrates that racial and gender biases are as strong as ever and that the most damaging impacts of criminalization are suffered by communities with the greatest vulnerabilities. Frances Steele, research and policy coordinator and lead author of the report, submitted a commentary summarizing the report’s findings to The Crime Report. Read it here.

DSW Research and Policy Coordinator Frances Steele.

DSW Research and Policy Coordinator Frances Steele.

DSW Newsletter #35 (April 2022)

DSW Testified on Important Sex Work Bills in RI

April 5, 2022 DSW’s legal director, Melissa Broudo, and staff attorney, Rebecca Cleary, traveled to Rhode Island to testify in support of three important bills making their way through the Rhode Island legislature. As DSW works towards...
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DSW Testified on Important Sex Work Bills in RI

CO Quickly Advances the Safe Reporting Assaults Suffered by Sex Workers Act

April 20, 2022 The Safe Reporting Assaults Suffered by Sex Workers Act, HB22-1288, allows sex workers to come forward to report a crime, access medical or emergency services, or both, if they are in need or witness another...
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CO Quickly Advances the Safe Reporting Assaults Suffered by Sex Workers Act

DSW Report Finds Strong Racial and Gender Biases in Prostitution and Trafficking Enforcement

April 15, 2022 DSW’s new report, “By the Numbers: New York’s Treatment of Sex Workers and Trafficking Survivors,” examined data that had not previously been examined in its totality. Our analysis demonstrates that racial and gender biases...
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DSW Report Finds Strong Racial and Gender Biases in Prostitution and Trafficking Enforcement

Oregon Sex Workers Committee’s Human Rights Commission

April 11, 2022 The Oregon Sex Workers Committee (OSWC) hosted its second Human Rights Commission Hearing. The hearing, held in Eugene, OR, brought together a diverse group of individuals including sex workers, allies, and members of law...
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Oregon Sex Workers Committee’s Human Rights Commission

STI Awareness Month

April 1, 2022 Each April, the American Sexual Health Organization (ASHA) recognizes Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Awareness Month. Additionally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recognize STI Awareness Week from April 10-16. According to ASHA:...
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STI Awareness Month

Save the Dates

May 1, 2022 Sex Work Survival Guide Summit event link/registration Date: May 1, 2022 Times: 10am-12am EST — recording will be available per perpetuity online Cost: FREE May 2, 2022 Webinar: Pending Legislation on Sex Work Decriminalization...
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Oregon Sex Workers Committee’s Human Rights Commission

April 11, 2022

The Oregon Sex Workers Committee (OSWC) hosted its second Human Rights Commission Hearing. The hearing, held in Eugene, OR, brought together a diverse group of individuals including sex workers, allies, and members of law enforcement, who testified regarding the numerous and critical reasons to decriminalize consensual adult sex work.

Current and former sex workers described the devastating consequences that contact with the criminal justice system has had on their lives and their family members. Amber Batts, who turned to sex work to support herself and her children after escaping an abusive relationship, testified that after she was arrested her children were forced to live with their abusive father.

Because sex work is criminalized and misunderstood, consensual adult prostitution is often conflated with human trafficking in laws and policy reponses. Batts, from Alaska, was charged with trafficking, though Alaska’s vague law lacks the federal guidelines of force, fraud, or coercion, which define trafficking. The law, in essence, conflates human trafficking and consensual adult sex work. She testified that her bail conditions were more stringent than someone charged with murder. She was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for a “crime” in which no one was hurt. On the day of her sentencing, a woman who killed another individual was sentenced to three years.

Batts never intended to be public about her engagement in sex work, she was outed and malinged in the media following her arrest. Prior to her arrest and time in prison, Batts owned a home and was able to support herself and her children on her own. After her release, she was not able to obtain employment in the social services, for which her college education had prepared her, or in any field that would provide benefits or sufficient compensation. Sex work had allowed her to be independent.

J. Leigh Oshiro-Brantly, research and project manager at DSW, as well as a sex worker and long-time sex work activist, testified about the harms of the Entrapment/Nordic/End Demand/Equality model. They spoke powerfully about keeping moral and ideological frameworks out of decisions around public policy, and reminded viewers that decriminalization is the only legal framework governing sex work that gives agency to the worker.

The hearing also included an interview with a former high-ranking member of law enforcement in New Zealand. He discussed how and why the 2003 Prostitution Reform Act (PRA), which decriminalized sex work in New Zealand, led to an increase in public health and safety and a decrease in exploitation. Watch the informative and enlightening video here.

We encourage you to to watch the full Human Rights Commission Hearing here.

J. Leigh Oshiro-Brantly testifies during the commission hearing.

J. Leigh Oshiro-Brantly testifies during the commission hearing.

DSW Newsletter #35 (April 2022)

DSW Testified on Important Sex Work Bills in RI

April 5, 2022 DSW’s legal director, Melissa Broudo, and staff attorney, Rebecca Cleary, traveled to Rhode Island to testify in support of three important bills making their way through the Rhode Island legislature. As DSW works towards...
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DSW Testified on Important Sex Work Bills in RI

CO Quickly Advances the Safe Reporting Assaults Suffered by Sex Workers Act

April 20, 2022 The Safe Reporting Assaults Suffered by Sex Workers Act, HB22-1288, allows sex workers to come forward to report a crime, access medical or emergency services, or both, if they are in need or witness another...
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CO Quickly Advances the Safe Reporting Assaults Suffered by Sex Workers Act

DSW Report Finds Strong Racial and Gender Biases in Prostitution and Trafficking Enforcement

April 15, 2022 DSW’s new report, “By the Numbers: New York’s Treatment of Sex Workers and Trafficking Survivors,” examined data that had not previously been examined in its totality. Our analysis demonstrates that racial and gender biases...
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DSW Report Finds Strong Racial and Gender Biases in Prostitution and Trafficking Enforcement

Oregon Sex Workers Committee’s Human Rights Commission

April 11, 2022 The Oregon Sex Workers Committee (OSWC) hosted its second Human Rights Commission Hearing. The hearing, held in Eugene, OR, brought together a diverse group of individuals including sex workers, allies, and members of law...
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Oregon Sex Workers Committee’s Human Rights Commission

STI Awareness Month

April 1, 2022 Each April, the American Sexual Health Organization (ASHA) recognizes Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Awareness Month. Additionally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recognize STI Awareness Week from April 10-16. According to ASHA:...
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STI Awareness Month

Save the Dates

May 1, 2022 Sex Work Survival Guide Summit event link/registration Date: May 1, 2022 Times: 10am-12am EST — recording will be available per perpetuity online Cost: FREE May 2, 2022 Webinar: Pending Legislation on Sex Work Decriminalization...
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DSW Testified on Important Sex Work Bills in RI

April 5, 2022

DSW’s legal director, Melissa Broudo, and staff attorney, Rebecca Cleary, traveled to Rhode Island to testify in support of three important bills making their way through the Rhode Island legislature. As DSW works towards our ultimate goal of the decriminalization of consensual adult sex work, we are advocating for incremental measures that will reduce exploitation and violence perpetrated against sex workers and survivors of trafficking. If passed, the three bills introduced in RI, which Broudo and Cleary testified in support of, would bring immediate health and safety benefits to individuals engaged in sex work.

H7704, currently being reviewed by the House Judiciary Committee, grants immunity from prosecution for commercial sexual activity to any victim or witness of a crime if they report the offense to law enforcement, seek or receive health care services as a result of their involvement or witnessing the offense, or assist or attempt to assist in the investigation and prosecution of the offense. Importantly, this protection is honored even if they later withdraw their cooperation.

People involved in the sex trade (whether by choice or by force, fraud, or coercion) are often victims of violent crime and exploitation, but they frequently don’t report crimes perpetrated against them due to fear of arrest. When abusers are not reported to law enforcement, they are able to continue acts of violence and exploitation with impunity. Immunity laws allow sex workers and trafficked people to safely report crimes and seek medical care without the fear that they themselves will be criminalized. They equip law enforcement entities with an increased ability to identify, investigate, and convict perpetrators of violence and trafficking. Immunity laws directly protect victims and witnesses of violence and they ultimately benefit all communities by allowing law enforcement to better detect criminal activity.

H6637 / S2233, in committee, establishes criteria for the criminal offense of sexual assault when the victim is in the custody of a peace officer. It provides that a person convicted of custodial sexual assault would face imprisonment for not more than three years. Forty states have laws making sexual interaction between a law-enforcement agent and a person in their custody illegal.

As Broudo wrote, “Most people cannot believe police are permitted to do this. The reality is that they should not, but that they do, on quite a regular basis. Sex workers and those profiled as sex workers — especially transgender women of color — are subject to routine sexual assault by police offering ‘deals’ (‘if you do this, I will not arrest you now’). This is not consent — in fact, it is the very definition of coercion. Other states, including Nevada and Pennsylvania, are currently considering similar laws to punish custodial sexual assault. To say there is a power imbalance between law enforcement and those in their custody would be a severe understatement — people who are in custody have no agency, have fear about what is to come, and are at the complete and total mercy of those who have taken them into custody. There cannot possibly be a consensual sexual encounter between someone in custody and the person in charge of their freedom. When you think of who may be in custody, there is a disproportionate chance that person will be part of a marginalized or more vulnerable group [people of color, specifically Black and Brown people, are significantly more likely to be arrested]. When it comes to sex work, Black and Brown women, especially transgender women, are the most likely to be arrested — and also the most vulnerable to exploitation, abuse, and stigma. These factors are easily exploited by law enforcement.”

H7672, currently in committee, mandates a patient shall “be afforded respectful, considerate care” not be discriminated against on any basis including age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or income source or profession.

Health care access is critical for the rights and safety of all. This is especially true when it comes to sex workers who face increased risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), sexual assault, and physical assault as a result of the criminalization of their work. Many sex workers do not seek critical healthcare because they have faced discrimination, or reporting to law enforcement  by medical professionals. Protection against discrimination in seeking care is not only life-saving; it’s an important step in protecting against the spread of STIs and increasing resource access for some of our most underserved community members.

Further, healthcare providers serve a critical role in identifying and helping to report (with the patient’s permission) instances of human trafficking. Unfortunately, because of the criminalization of commercial sex, individuals trafficked for the purpose of selling sex are afraid to seek services. This is not only a violation of human rights, it is a public health and safety concern. We must make safe, confidential, and appropriate healthcare resources available to all individuals.

Rebecca Cleary testifies in front of the RI House Judiciary Committee.

Rebecca Cleary testifies in front of the RI House Judiciary Committee.

Melissa Broudo testifies in front of the RI House Judiciary Committee.

Melissa Broudo testifies in front of the RI House Judiciary Committee.

DSW Newsletter #35 (April 2022)

DSW Testified on Important Sex Work Bills in RI

April 5, 2022 DSW’s legal director, Melissa Broudo, and staff attorney, Rebecca Cleary, traveled to Rhode Island to testify in support of three important bills making their way through the Rhode Island legislature. As DSW works towards...
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DSW Testified on Important Sex Work Bills in RI

CO Quickly Advances the Safe Reporting Assaults Suffered by Sex Workers Act

April 20, 2022 The Safe Reporting Assaults Suffered by Sex Workers Act, HB22-1288, allows sex workers to come forward to report a crime, access medical or emergency services, or both, if they are in need or witness another...
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CO Quickly Advances the Safe Reporting Assaults Suffered by Sex Workers Act

DSW Report Finds Strong Racial and Gender Biases in Prostitution and Trafficking Enforcement

April 15, 2022 DSW’s new report, “By the Numbers: New York’s Treatment of Sex Workers and Trafficking Survivors,” examined data that had not previously been examined in its totality. Our analysis demonstrates that racial and gender biases...
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DSW Report Finds Strong Racial and Gender Biases in Prostitution and Trafficking Enforcement

Oregon Sex Workers Committee’s Human Rights Commission

April 11, 2022 The Oregon Sex Workers Committee (OSWC) hosted its second Human Rights Commission Hearing. The hearing, held in Eugene, OR, brought together a diverse group of individuals including sex workers, allies, and members of law...
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Oregon Sex Workers Committee’s Human Rights Commission

STI Awareness Month

April 1, 2022 Each April, the American Sexual Health Organization (ASHA) recognizes Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Awareness Month. Additionally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recognize STI Awareness Week from April 10-16. According to ASHA:...
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STI Awareness Month

Save the Dates

May 1, 2022 Sex Work Survival Guide Summit event link/registration Date: May 1, 2022 Times: 10am-12am EST — recording will be available per perpetuity online Cost: FREE May 2, 2022 Webinar: Pending Legislation on Sex Work Decriminalization...
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STI Awareness Month

April 1, 2022

Each April, the American Sexual Health Organization (ASHA) recognizes Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Awareness Month. Additionally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recognize STI Awareness Week from April 10-16.

According to ASHA:
• There are 20 million new STI cases in the U.S. every year;
• The medical costs for these new cases are $16 billion;
• Adding the new cases each year with existing infection, there are an estimated 110 million total STIs among Americans.

Numerous public health agencies, including the World Health Organization, UNAIDS, the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, support the decriminalization of sex work as an essential step in the global fight against HIV, AIDS, and other STIs. Research shows the decriminalization of sex work would reduce HIV transmissions by 33-46% worldwide. Where sex work is criminalized, sex workers have less agency and are more likely to engage in risky behaviors such as having unprotected sex.

Criminalization and policing practices greatly impede sex workers’ ability to protect themselves and their clients from STI transmission. The possession of condoms is often used by law enforcement as evidence that an individual has the intent to engage in or has engaged in prositution. According to the ACLU, “Research indicates that certain police practices related to enforcement of sex work criminalization may put sex workers (and their clients) at greater health risk. Interviews with sex workers in Sacramento Valley, California revealed that the threat and incidence of detention increased if sex workers had condoms in their possession. Some sex workers in a New York City study reported that police confiscated or destroyed their condoms, even outside the context of arrests. A number of these workers stated they carry fewer condoms due to their fear of arrest, but several indicated that this did not deter them from their commitment to practicing safer sex.”

In addition to criminalization, the stigma associated with sex work can make it difficult for sex workers to obtain adequate sexual and reproductive health services. Sex workers often face discrimination by medical health professionals who may choose to condemn them for their choice to engage in sex work instead of simply providing them with the medical care they seek. Both the CDC and ASHA recommend regular testing for STIs as the most important measure to both treat and prevent STIs as many have no symptoms.

The United Nations Reproductive Health and Rights Agency (UNFPA) found that nearly 1 in 4 sex workers have been denied health care because of their occupation. It is imperative that sex workers are able to seek regular testing and routine care without worrying about being shamed or, worse, denied services for how they earn their income.

DSW is advocating in Rhode Island for the passage of H7672, currently in committee,  which mandates that a patient shall “be afforded respectful, considerate care” not be be discriminate against on any basis including age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or income source or profession. This would ensure respectful access to all medical care for all workers.

Courtesy of AIDS Healthcare Foundation (2019).

DSW Newsletter #35 (April 2022)

DSW Testified on Important Sex Work Bills in RI

April 5, 2022 DSW’s legal director, Melissa Broudo, and staff attorney, Rebecca Cleary, traveled to Rhode Island to testify in support of three important bills making their way through the Rhode Island legislature. As DSW works towards...
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DSW Testified on Important Sex Work Bills in RI

CO Quickly Advances the Safe Reporting Assaults Suffered by Sex Workers Act

April 20, 2022 The Safe Reporting Assaults Suffered by Sex Workers Act, HB22-1288, allows sex workers to come forward to report a crime, access medical or emergency services, or both, if they are in need or witness another...
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CO Quickly Advances the Safe Reporting Assaults Suffered by Sex Workers Act

DSW Report Finds Strong Racial and Gender Biases in Prostitution and Trafficking Enforcement

April 15, 2022 DSW’s new report, “By the Numbers: New York’s Treatment of Sex Workers and Trafficking Survivors,” examined data that had not previously been examined in its totality. Our analysis demonstrates that racial and gender biases...
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DSW Report Finds Strong Racial and Gender Biases in Prostitution and Trafficking Enforcement

Oregon Sex Workers Committee’s Human Rights Commission

April 11, 2022 The Oregon Sex Workers Committee (OSWC) hosted its second Human Rights Commission Hearing. The hearing, held in Eugene, OR, brought together a diverse group of individuals including sex workers, allies, and members of law...
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Oregon Sex Workers Committee’s Human Rights Commission

STI Awareness Month

April 1, 2022 Each April, the American Sexual Health Organization (ASHA) recognizes Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Awareness Month. Additionally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recognize STI Awareness Week from April 10-16. According to ASHA:...
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STI Awareness Month

Save the Dates

May 1, 2022 Sex Work Survival Guide Summit event link/registration Date: May 1, 2022 Times: 10am-12am EST — recording will be available per perpetuity online Cost: FREE May 2, 2022 Webinar: Pending Legislation on Sex Work Decriminalization...
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April 7, 2022

With Congressional elections fast approaching, Equality NY’s Political Action Committee (PAC) is hosting a roundtable for candidates focused on addressing LGBTQI issues. The event will feature four candidates from New York congressional districts in New York City and upstate. As a member of Equality NY’s advisory council and PAC Committee, DSW’s Melissa Broudo helped organize the event.

Join the roundtable to hear what candidates Ashmi Sheth, Rana Abdelhamid, Brittany Ramos Debarros, and Melanie D’Arrigo see as the most pressing issues facing the LGBTQI community in New York and how they plan to address them if elected. Click here to register– we hope to see you there!

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April 1, 2022

At 10 am PT, 1 pm EST, the UCLA Global Lab for Research in Action will be hosting “Reimagining  Gender Equality Through Sport,” a Luskin Summit webinar about the role  of sports in the pursuit of gender equality. This session will feature two conversations — one focused on the global landscape of “sport for development” and the other focused on the United States — and will conclude with a brief panel discussion and Q&A. Each conversation between researcher and practitioner will highlight emerging research that demonstrates how sport can be used to advance gender justice around the world.

DSW is proud to have the Global Lab for Research in Action as a grantee. Register for the panel here!

Congressional Candidate LGBTQI Roundtable

(Equality NY PAC, 2022)

(UCLA, 2022)

DSW Newsletter #34 (March 2022)

Burlington, Vermont Votes To Remove Language That Discriminates Against Sex Workers From City Charter

March 1, 2022 Burlington voters overwhelmingly chose to remove archaic and discriminatory language from their city charter. The current charter mandates that Burlington “restrain and suppress houses of ill fame and disorderly houses, and to punish common...
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Burlington, Vermont Votes To Remove Language That Discriminates Against Sex Workers From City Charter

Members of Congress Introduce Bill To Study the Impact of SESTA/FOSTA

March 3, 2022 Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA), Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) re-introduced the Safe Sex Workers Act (SSWA) to the House and Senate on International Sex Workers Rights...
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Members of Congress Introduce Bill To Study the Impact of SESTA/FOSTA

John Oliver Dissects Sex Work Criminalization and How We Can Do Better

February 27, 2022 As a society, we’ve never been very good at talking about sex, John Oliver points out in the February 27th episode of Last Week Tonight. If we want to craft legislation and policies that protect...
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Honoring International Sex Worker Rights Day

March 3, 2022 Each year, sex workers, advocates, and allied communities celebrate International Sex Worker Rights Day, recognizing a movement that upholds the principles of harm reduction to support the rights and dignity of those who are...
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Honoring International Sex Worker Rights Day

Save the Dates!

April 7, 2022 With Congressional elections fast approaching, Equality NY’s Political Action Committee (PAC) is hosting a roundtable for candidates focused on addressing LGBTQI issues. The event will feature four candidates from New York congressional districts in...
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Members of Congress Introduce Bill To Study the Impact of SESTA/FOSTA

March 3, 2022

Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA), Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) re-introduced the Safe Sex Workers Act (SSWA) to the House and Senate on International Sex Workers Rights Day. The SSWA directs the US Department of Health and Human Services to study the impact of SESTA/FOSTA, signed into law by President Donald Trump in 2018, on sex workers and related communities. Initially proposed in 2019, the SSWA is a product of years of activism by sex worker rights advocates and allies, calling for the inclusion of impacted communities in policy development around sex work and related issues.

SESTA/FOSTA continues to have an incredibly harmful impact on sex worker rights and safety. The rise of websites like Backpage and Craigslist’s Erotic Services (ERS) page in the early 2000s had allowed sex workers who previously engaged in street-based work to migrate online. A 2018 survey out of the University of Leicester found that online sex work allowed for much more control over working conditions and reduced the risk of physical attack. Workers surveyed said that the internet allowed them to screen clients for safety and to engage in peer support. Over 80% of those surveyed said the internet improved their quality of life. “The types of crimes that sex workers are experiencing have changed,” reported Teela Sanders, professor of criminology and lead researcher. “There was a much lower incidence of violent crime [including] sexual and physical assault than in other studies. But there [were] high levels of digitally facilitated crimes.” In a different study looking at the regional rollout of Craigslist’s erotic services (ERS) page, researchers out of Baylor University found that ERS had decreased the female homicide rate by 17% on average.

But not everyone viewed these developments positively. The conflation between consensual adult sex work and human trafficking in laws and general rhetoric sparked misguided fears that online content would lead to the proliferation of trafficking in commercial sex. A moral panic spurred the passage of SESTA/FOSTA. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act prevents online platforms from being prosecuted for the content that third parties post on their website. Proponents of the law claimed that limiting Section 230 protections for any site hosting sexual content would scrub commercial sex from the internet and therefore online sexual exploitation would be squashed.

Sex workers, service providers, free-speech activists, and even law enforcement warned that the law would have unintended consequences for both sex worker rights and investigations into online trafficking. Websites hosting sexual content had established relationships with law enforcement to combat trafficking. Many voluntarily reported content that showed signs of abuse or allowed police to comb posts themselves. With the passage of SESTA/FOSTA, many of these platforms either shut down or wiped any content of a sexual nature from their websites for fear of prosecution. As a result, law enforcement lost many trails of evidence they had been following and were forced to abandon investigations.

When sex workers lost access to online platforms to advertise their services, the benefits to health and safety that these sites provided were also lost. A report by the Samaritan Women Institute for shelter Care interviewed service providers for survivors of human trafficking and found that SESTA/FOSTA had failed to address trafficking. If anything, the law had pushed more individuals back into street-based sex work, leaving them more vulnerable to violent crime. Making it harder for sex workers to find and vet clients also leaves them at greater risk for exploitative relationships and possibly trafficking, the report found.

The Safe Sex Workers Act (SSWA) asks the United States government to do what it should already feel obligated to — examine the impact of written law on the lived experience of individuals, as well as its success in meeting its stated intentions. Analyses of SESTA/FOSTA like the report published in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review by Kendra Albert, Elizabeth Brundige, and Lorelei Lee, have overwhelmingly concluded that the law impedes trafficking prosecutions and endangers human rights and safety. The SSWA has been endorsed by over seventy anti-violence, public health, technology, civil and human rights organizations including AIDS United, Center for Democracy and Technology, Transgender Law Center, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal, and more. “Sex workers — far too often overlooked by policy analysis — have long been among the communities most impacted by HIV,” said Jesse Milan Jr., president, and CEO of AIDS United.  “Research and community input is needed to understand the harmful effects of recent policies on sex workers and consequently on ending the HIV epidemic. The SAFE SEX Worker Study Act is a piece of legislation that will enable such vital research.”

We ask that readers reach out to their elected representatives and urge them to support this important bill.

Lambda Legal Staff Attorney Puneet Cheema in Rep. Khanna's video announcing the bill's introduction. (Lambda Legal, 2022)

Lambda Legal Staff Attorney Puneet Cheema endorses the bill in Rep. Khanna's video announcing the its introduction. (Lambda Legal, 2022)

AIDS United supports the SAFE SEX Worker Study Act

AIDS United released a press release in support of the bill. (AIDS United, 2022)

DSW Newsletter #34 (March 2022)

Burlington, Vermont Votes To Remove Language That Discriminates Against Sex Workers From City Charter

March 1, 2022 Burlington voters overwhelmingly chose to remove archaic and discriminatory language from their city charter. The current charter mandates that Burlington “restrain and suppress houses of ill fame and disorderly houses, and to punish common...
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Burlington, Vermont Votes To Remove Language That Discriminates Against Sex Workers From City Charter

Members of Congress Introduce Bill To Study the Impact of SESTA/FOSTA

March 3, 2022 Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA), Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) re-introduced the Safe Sex Workers Act (SSWA) to the House and Senate on International Sex Workers Rights...
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Honoring International Sex Worker Rights Day

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Honoring International Sex Worker Rights Day

March 3, 2022

Each year, sex workers, advocates, and allied communities celebrate International Sex Worker Rights Day, recognizing a movement that upholds the principles of harm reduction to support the rights and dignity of those who are most vulnerable. International Sex Worker Rights Day was first organized in 2001 by Durbar Mahila Samanwaya, a Kolkata-based sex worker rights group whose name translates to “The Unstoppable Women’s Synthesis Committee.” It has since been adopted as a universal day of celebration, recognized around the world.

Sex workers face criminalization, stigmatization, and discrimination in all forms across the globe. March 3 provides an opportunity for groups to raise their voices in unison and recognize how far we have come and how far we still have to go. In 2022 alone, the movement has had several significant achievements:

* Sex work was decriminalized in Victoria, Australia;

* Amnesty International released a report reviewing the impact of “End Demand Policies in Ireland” and advocating for decriminalization;

* The United States Federal Court ruled that Title XI protects sex workers from being discriminated against based on their work history;

* Last Week Tonight with John Oliver featured the decriminalization of sex work on a segment;

* Burlington, Vermont voted overwhelmingly to strike language discriminating against sex workers from its city charter;

* An article in the Boston Review reignited the debate over whether there is a constitutional right to sex work; and

* Belgium decriminalized prostitution.

Many states have proposed bills that would provide immunity from arrests for sex workers who witness or are the victim of a crime, ensure sex workers have access to health care and vacate the convictions of trafficking survivors. This year, members of Congress proposed legislation to study the ways in which SESTA/FOSTA has impacted sex workers and survivors of human trafficking.

This year, DSW had the honor of hosting an event held by the New York Transgender Advocacy Group (NYTAG) in honor of the holiday. NYTAG invited sex workers to participate in a focus group in partnership with the Mayor’s Office’s Task Force on Health and Safety Needs of Sex Workers. Filmmaker Tavleen Tarrant attended and shot footage for her upcoming documentary on sex work and related issues in New York State.

Leading up to International Sex Worker Rights Day, DSW’s Melissa Broudo participated in a symposium on the national movement to decriminalize sex work. The symposium, entitled “Decrimpact,” was hosted by the Getting to Zero Activist Academy, a Massachusetts-based organization fighting the HIV/AIDS crisis by bridging intersectional divides. The event debuted Out of the Shadows: The Movement to Decriminalize Sex Work, a short documentary filmed and produced by participants in the Activist Academy and Dawson Hill. The film captures the voices of local sex worker rights activists, researchers, and Representative Lindsay Sabadosa (D-Northampton), a Massachusetts state representative who recently proposed H. 1867, a bill to fully decriminalize consensual adults sex work in Massachusetts. It explores how decriminalizing sex work would help the fight against HIV, reduce commercial sex trafficking, and promote the safety of sex workers.

Honoring International Sex Worker Rights Day

Kiara St. James, the Executive Director of NYTAG (holding the red umbrella), is pictured with event attendees. (NYTAG, 2022)

Honoring International Sex Worker Rights Day

J. Leigh Oshiro-Brantly of NYTAG and DSW is pictured with Tahtianna Fermin, founder of Bridges4Life, an organization supporting children raised in foster care. (NYTAG, 2022)

DSW Newsletter #34 (March 2022)

Burlington, Vermont Votes To Remove Language That Discriminates Against Sex Workers From City Charter

March 1, 2022 Burlington voters overwhelmingly chose to remove archaic and discriminatory language from their city charter. The current charter mandates that Burlington “restrain and suppress houses of ill fame and disorderly houses, and to punish common...
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Burlington, Vermont Votes To Remove Language That Discriminates Against Sex Workers From City Charter

March 1, 2022

Burlington voters overwhelmingly chose to remove archaic and discriminatory language from their city charter. The current charter mandates that Burlington “restrain and suppress houses of ill fame and disorderly houses, and to punish common prostitutes and persons consorting therewith.” The question of whether to remove the language was presented to voters during their annual local election. Burlington residents showed their support for human dignity, equity, and safety by choosing to strike this outdated language from the charter. The referendum now heads to the statehouse to be ratified.

The charter change does not decriminalize sex work in Burlington, as Vermont State law still criminalizes commercial sex. But the referendum vote does signify that Burlington voters understand the important differences between consensual adult sex work and human trafficking and support equity, safety, and dignity for all. Consensual adult sex work is not inherently dangerous but criminalization and stigmatization leave individuals vulnerable to abuse and violence. Conversely, the decriminalization of consensual adult sex work protects the health and safety of communities by allowing sex workers greater access to resources and agency in their work. It also helps combat violence against sex workers by allowing them to report crimes committed against them and others without fear of arrest. When Rhode Island decriminalized consensual adult sex work between 2003 and 2009, incidences of female gonorrhea declined by 39% and sexual assault declined by 31%.

Stigma and discrimination cause tremendous harm to all people engaged in sex work, whether their form of work is legal or not, and whether they are working by choice, circumstance, or coercion. Laws that further stigma, shame, misogyny, and discrimination enable and amplify harm to an already vulnerable population.

“Removing this discriminatory language from the city charter is a critical and positive step for consensual adult sex workers and everyone who cares about their communities. It also shows that voters can separate consensual adult sex work from the grotesque crime of human trafficking,” said Henri Bynx, co-founder of The Ishtar Collective, Vermont’s only organization run by and for sex workers and survivors of exploitation or trafficking. “We are deeply touched and encouraged to no longer be further marginalized by punitive language in Burlington’s city charter,” they continued.

A broad coalition of supporters urged Burlington voters to stand up for equity, safety, and dignity by voting affirmatively on question #5 on Town Meeting Day 2022.

Endorsers included:
Representative Tiff Bluemle (Chittenden-6-5)
Representative Brian Cina (Chittenden-6-4)
Representative Selene Colburn (Chittenden-6-4)
Representative Robert Hooper (Chittenden-6-1)
Representative Curt McCormack (Chittenden-6-3)
Representative Emma Mulvaney-Stanak (Chittenden-6-2)
Representative Barbara Rachelson (Chittenden-6-6)
Representative Taylor Small (Chittenden-6-7)
Representative Gabrielle Stebbins (Chittenden-6-5)
Burlington City Council President Max Tracy (Ward 2)
Burlington City Councilor Perri Freeman (Central)
Burlington City Councilor Jack Hanson (East)
Burlington City Councilor Zoraya Hightower (Ward 1)
Burlington City Councilor Joe Magee (Ward 3)
Burlington City Councilor Jane Stromberg (Ward 8)
The Ishtar Collective
Migrant Justice
National Harm Reduction Coalition
Out in the Open
Pride Center of Vermont
Vermont CARES

Volunteers from The Erotic Laborers Alliance of New England (ELA-ONE) promote Equity, Safety, and Dignity on March 1 in Burlington.

Megan, a volunteer from the Erotic Labor Alliance of New England (ELA-ONE), and J. Leigh Oshiro-Brantly of DSW and the Ishtar Collective brave the cold in order to advocate for the charter change. (DSW, 2022)

Burlington VT Votes To Remove Language That Discriminates Against Sex Workers From City Charter

Members of the Ishtar Collective, ELA-ONE, and allies celebrate on election night. (Ishtar Collective, 2022)

DSW Newsletter #34 (March 2022)

Burlington, Vermont Votes To Remove Language That Discriminates Against Sex Workers From City Charter

March 1, 2022 Burlington voters overwhelmingly chose to remove archaic and discriminatory language from their city charter. The current charter mandates that Burlington “restrain and suppress houses of ill fame and disorderly houses, and to punish common...
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Burlington, Vermont Votes To Remove Language That Discriminates Against Sex Workers From City Charter

Members of Congress Introduce Bill To Study the Impact of SESTA/FOSTA

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John Oliver Dissects Sex Work Criminalization and How We Can Do Better

February 27, 2022

As a society, we’ve never been very good at talking about sex, John Oliver points out in the February 27th episode of Last Week Tonight. If we want to craft legislation and policies that protect human rights, public health, and the safety of all communities equally, we need to do better. The show’s recent segment dives headfirst into the issue of sex work decriminalization. “Everything about the way we regulate sex work in this country is confusing and counter-productive,” says Oliver. It’s either “demonizing, patronizing, or just plain wrong.” He goes on to analyze the convoluted contradictions inherent in criminalizing sex workers in order to “save” them. Central to Oliver’s argument: instead of trying to project a discriminatory and misogynistic moral framework onto those engaging in commercial sex, “we need to be talking constructively about how to make [sex work] safer in every possible way.”

DSW staff attorney and legal director, Rebecca Cleary and Melissa Broudo provided background research to the producers of the show, resulting in a poignant and hilarious analysis that unflinchingly addresses the stigma and misconceptions around sexual labor. Many members of law enforcement and lawmakers oppose decriminalization because they believe that sex work is inherently exploitative and that decriminalization will allow trafficking in commercial sex to proliferate. But sex workers are not a monolith — many different kinds of people engage in commercial sex for a variety of reasons. To enact the most effective, impactful policies for a deeply diverse population, we must consult with and listen to impacted communities. Sex work is work; it’s how people support themselves and their families, the same as any other job. And sex workers are people with thoughts and opinions on their own situations and they overwhelmingly support the decriminalization of sex work because it makes their work safe.

In the segment, one law enforcement officer said that sex workers often describe being arrested as having “saved [their] life.” Oliver makes the perhaps obvious point that if the best option we have to help someone is to arrest them, that poses a system-wide problem. No one should be forced to participate in sex work against their will, just as no one should be forced to do any form of labor against their will. But saddling someone with a criminal record is a far cry from help, particularly when repeated arrests can result in felony convictions in certain states.

Many of these arrests occur during prostitution stings in which police pose as clients and then arrest  people who agree to have sex with them. “It’s no wonder many sex workers have trouble regarding the police as their saviors especially as cops have a reputation for acting violently or inappropriately during stings,” said Oliver. “A couple of years ago in Arizona, a federal agency engaged in 17 sexual encounters with women working in massage parlors as part of an investigation, disgustingly code-named ‘Operation Asian Touch’. And that’s not uncommon. Because in many states it is not specifically illegal for police officers to have sex with sex workers during a sting operation. And in some cases, police have protested efforts to ban the practice. This is both grotesque and also a bit ironic because what they’re fundamentally arguing there is that they should be able to have sex for their jobs legally in order to stop people having sex for their jobs.”

Even without these abhorrent policies, the way that sex work is policed in this U.S. is incredibly discriminatory, particularly along the lines of race, gender, and gender expression. The recently repealed loitering for the purpose of prostitution offense in New York State was used to target, arrest, and harass individuals for legal activities like talking to passersby or wearing certain clothing or the basis of “looking like” a sex worker. The law was colloquially termed “the ban on Walking While Trans” because of the disproportionate number of trans women targeted for the crime. 88% of people arrested under this statute from 2009-2019 were women of color. From 2016 to 2020, almost everyone arrested for prostitution-related crimes in NY was non-white. In other cities, workers are arrested for carrying condoms, leading many sex workers to go without, putting their lives at risk.

The episode digs into many more examples of the irony and, in some cases, the idiocy of the laws that govern sex work in the U.S. Having conversations about making sex work safer is almost impossible when it is continually conflated with human trafficking. Human trafficking is an egregious offense where “any number north of zero is clearly terrible,” but reports of millions of people allegedly trafficked into commercial sex each year are consistently debunked by experts. 80% of trafficking cases occur in sectors outside of commercial sex. However, because of conflation and a disproportionate focus on prostitution as trafficking, advocates and service providers report that non-sexual labor trafficking cases often go unreported and unprosecuted. Some states have even codified this harmful conflation into law, replacing the word prostitution with trafficking. Alaska used this provision to prosecute a woman for trafficking herself.

While the segment engages audience members because of its witty pointedness, the reality of these policies for impacted communities is much less amusing. Reducing all sex work to exploitation removes the voices, agency, and humanity of the individuals who engage in it, which lawmakers use as an excuse to ignore sex workers in crafting policies.

An outlier in this is New Zealand, which decriminalized consensual adult, sex work in 2013. Under the 2013 Prostitution Reform Act, commercial sex is no longer a crime, so long as it is consensual. This allows sex workers access to unemployment benefits, healthcare, and other fundamental rights. Under the law, sex workers have successfully sued for sexual harassment and assault they experienced while working. “It is a human rights-centered approach,” says Oliver, “that seems to be working.”

The episode acknowledges that we don’t have all the answers yet. “There are good-faith disagreements to be had over the finer points of decriminalization policy,” Oliver notes. “But if we basically agree, as I hope we do, that making sex work safer is a priority, it is the direction to strive toward.”

DSW was honored to be included in the research of this episode and encouraged to have this issue discussed on such a well-known platform. If you haven’t yet viewed the episode, we highly recommend it for some heavy-hitting truth bombs and belly-laughs.

John Oliver Dissects Sex Work Criminalization and How We Can Do Better

(HBO, 2022)

DSW Newsletter #34 (March 2022)

Burlington, Vermont Votes To Remove Language That Discriminates Against Sex Workers From City Charter

March 1, 2022 Burlington voters overwhelmingly chose to remove archaic and discriminatory language from their city charter. The current charter mandates that Burlington “restrain and suppress houses of ill fame and disorderly houses, and to punish common...
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