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Research on sex work and the sex industry

Our sex work titles navigate the complexities of the industry, offering a platform for those with experience of sex work, or of being forced into arrangements like sex-for-rent. The aim is to stop exploitation and challenge ingrained prejudices.

Experiences of the Sex Industry

By Natasha Mulvihill

Sex Work and COVID-19 in the New Zealand Media

By Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith

Work, Money and Duality

By Raven Bowen

Sex Work and the New Zealand Model

Edited by Lynzi Armstrong and Gillian Abel

Trafficking Chains

By Sylvia Walby and Karen Shire

Designing Prostitution Policy

By Hendrik Wagenaar, Helga Amesberger and Sietske Altink

Regulating sex for sale

Edited by Jo Phoenix

Taking the crime out of sex work

Edited by Gillian Abel, Lisa Fitzgerald, Catherine Healy, with and Aline Taylor

From our journals

Justice, Power and Resistance
The safeguarding delusion: sex work and policing in Wales [Free access]
Author: Sam Hanks

Journal of Gender-Based Violence
Unwanted sex with third parties in domestic abuse relationships and its impact on help-seeking and justice
Author: Andrea Matolcsi

Critical and Radical Social Work
A critical review of intersectionality, social work education and sex work: an Irish perspective
Authors: Leigh-Ann Sweeney and Susan Flynn

On Transforming Society

Shaping government understanding on sex-for-rent
Authors: Raven Bowen and Rebecca Megson-Smith

Narrating the sex industry
Author: Natasha Mulvihill

First, they came for the sex workers
Author: Raven Bowen

POLICY BRIEFING: Experiences of the sex industry
Author: Natasha Mulvihill