Beyond the Gaze and Well Beyond Wolfenden: The Practices and Rationalities of Regulating and Policing Sex Work in the Digital Age
Beyond the Gaze and Well Beyond Wolfenden: The Practices and Rationalities of Regulating and Policing Sex Work in the Digital Age
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DOI：
10.1111/jols.12155
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发表时间：
2019-06-01
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Cunningham, Stewart
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作者：
Scoular, Jane;Pitcher, Jane;Cunningham, Stewart
借鉴最大的研究，英国在线市场的性劳动，到目前为止，本文探讨了法律的和监管的后果方面的性工作越来越多地发生在一个在线环境。我们的研究表明，虽然政府政策没有跟上这些变化，但现行法律（自20世纪50年代以来，这些法律的重点是公害，最近则是人口贩运和现代奴隶制）的适用对性工作者有害，并且不适合识别和应对性劳动在线市场中的虐待和剥削。如果政策和监管不能更好地适应这些市场在21世纪的现实，这些不公正现象可能会加剧。这就要求采取更加细致入微的监管办法，承认人们可以自愿从事性工作，但也要处理劳动条件和犯罪剥削问题。
Drawing on the largest study of the United Kingdom online market in sexual labour to date, this article examines the legal and regulatory consequences as aspects of sex work increasingly take place within an online environment. Our research shows that while governmental policy has not kept abreast of these changes, the application of current laws (which have, since the 1950s, focused on public nuisance and, more recently, trafficking and modern slavery) are pernicious to sex workers and unsuited to recognizing and responding to the abuses and exploitation in online markets in sexual labour. These injustices are likely to be exacerbated if policies and policing do not better align with the realities of these markets in the twenty-first century. This demands a more nuanced regulatory approach which recognizes that people may engage in sex work of their own volition, but which also addresses conditions of labour and criminal exploitation.