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Beyond the Gaze:The working practices, regulation and safety of Internet-based sex work in the UK

目光之外：英国互联网性工作的工作实践、监管和安全

基本信息

批准号：
ES/M007324/2
负责人：
T Sanders
金额：
$ 45.23万
依托单位：
University of Leicester
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2016 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FM007324%2F2
关键词：
Beyond Gaze working practices regulation

项目摘要

Technology, particularly digital communication, has had a profound impact on how we organise our lives, conduct our relationships and the transactions of commerce and retail. The sex industry has followed this trend, with the online sex markets expanding and diversifying, changing the shape of how sex is bought and sold. Yet no regulation and very little policing focuses on the Internet-based sex markets. Our overarching question is: How has the Internet shaped the 21st Century adult commercial sex industry in the UK and what is the role of regulation? Our research focuses on the gaps in knowledge, in terms of how the market is structured, how it functions and how it is currently regulated. We are concerned with those individuals who work legally in their own homes, or as escorts doing outcalls to hotels and clients' homes, all away from the ordinary gaze of policing. There has been no attention to the interactions between technology and types of commercial sex such as webcam sex; performing live sex acts and chat; sexual story telling; and how niche markets have developed both allowing sex workers to innovate as well as opening up working opportunities. Therefore our overall inquiry seeks to explain how regulation interacts with the Internet setting in relation to the experience of vulnerability and safety. Is working via the Internet safer for sex workers? Are there unintended safety issues? Are sex workers made more vulnerable by the isolation of the Internet or does technology provide mechanisms to enhance safety? Therefore the aims of this research are threefold: a)to understand the wider theoretical significance of new technologies for changing the social practice of sexual consumption and the sex industry. b) to map the trends and understand the working practices in Internet-based sex work markets within the broader processes of the regulation and policing of sex work in the UK. c) to facilitate the integration of Internet-based sex work into safety and health-related provision, policies and agencies. We intend to answer these questions using a mixed methodology to gather new empirical knowledge, and have designed a project consisting of a large national online survey of sex workers; qualitative interviews with 80 sex workers and 40 interviews those involved in the policing and regulation of online sex work activities (such as the police, Home Office representative, IT specialists). Peer researchers will assist in the recruitment of participants, promoting the project as well as reviewing the progress of the Impact Plan. In addition, there is an integrated service provision and developmental role built into the project team through a Research, Support and Development Netreach Officer. Beyond the academy, the project has three key beneficiary groups who are collaborators on the project: 1) Police through the Association of Chief Police Officers and the National Lead for Prostitution, policy makers (local and national government. 2) Sex workers who work online and the broader sex work community. 3) sex work projects and practitioners who work with sex workers - both statutory and third sector, including sexual health practitioners who deliver specific clinical services to sex workers. These groups will benefit in the following ways: 1) a practitioner outreach service with sex workers (all genders) via the Internet (known as Netreach) will be delivered on a weekly basis providing information on safety, signposting to health, welfare and offering a confidential listening service for 3 years. 2) In collaboration with partners the UK Network of Sex Work Projects, the development of a Netreach toolkit for good practice models of Internet outreach. 3) Reduction in violence and crimes against sex workers and broader access to justice for this group. 4) Overall impact aims are to inform and influence legislation and policy in the regulation of prostitution through engaging in government processes and expert witness requests.

技术，特别是数字通信，对我们如何组织生活、处理人际关系以及商业和零售交易产生了深远的影响。随着网络性市场的扩张和多样化，性产业也顺应了这一趋势，改变了性交易的形式。然而，针对基于互联网的性市场，没有任何法规和很少的监管。我们的首要问题是：互联网是如何塑造21世纪英国成人商业性产业的？监管的作用是什么？我们的研究主要集中在知识方面的差距，即市场的结构、运作方式和目前的监管方式。我们关心的是那些在自己家里合法工作的人，或者是那些在酒店和客户家里做陪护的人，他们都远离了警察的普通目光。人们一直没有注意到技术与各种商业性行为（如网络摄像头性行为）之间的相互作用；表演现场性行为和聊天；讲性故事；以及利基市场是如何发展起来的，既允许性工作者创新，又开辟了工作机会。因此，我们的整体调查旨在解释监管如何与互联网环境中脆弱性和安全性的经验相互作用。通过互联网工作对性工作者来说更安全吗？是否存在意外的安全问题？性工作者是否因为互联网的孤立而更容易受到伤害，或者技术是否提供了增强安全性的机制？因此，本研究的目的有三个：a)了解新技术对改变性消费和性产业的社会实践的更广泛的理论意义。b)在英国更广泛的性工作监管过程中，绘制出基于互联网的性工作市场的趋势，并了解其工作实践。(c)促进将基于互联网的性工作纳入安全和与健康有关的服务、政策和机构。我们打算用一种混合的方法来回答这些问题，以收集新的经验知识，并设计了一个项目，包括对性工作者进行大规模的全国性在线调查；对80名性工作者进行了定性访谈，对40名参与在线性工作活动监管的人员进行了访谈（如警察、内政部代表、IT专家）。同行研究人员将协助招募参与者、推广项目以及审查影响计划的进展情况。此外，通过研究、支持和发展网络官员，在项目团队中建立了一个综合服务提供和发展角色。除了学院之外，该项目还有三个主要的受益群体，他们是项目的合作者：1)警察，通过首席警官协会和全国卖淫问题领导，政策制定者（地方和国家政府）。2)在网上工作的性工作者和更广泛的性工作者群体。3)性工作项目和与性工作者合作的从业人员——包括法定部门和第三部门，包括向性工作者提供具体临床服务的性健康从业人员。这些团体将在以下方面受益：1)每周通过互联网（称为Netreach）向性工作者（所有性别）提供从业人员外展服务，提供有关安全、健康、福利的信息，并提供保密的倾听服务，为期三年。2)与英国性工作项目网络合作，开发网络拓展的良好实践模式工具包。3)减少针对性工作者的暴力和犯罪，并扩大这一群体诉诸司法的渠道。4)总体影响目标是通过参与政府程序和专家证人请求，为管制卖淫的立法和政策提供信息和影响。