Decriminalise Sex Work in South Australia

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Sex work is work, sex workers need rights, and SA needs decrim!

Consensual commercial adult sexual services should not be a crime and in New South Wales, New Zealand, Northern Territory, Victoria and soon Queensland they aren’t. Australian States & Territories have accepted the wealth of internationally supported evidence as well as the lived experience of sex workers and decriminalised the sex industry.

Sex workers in these places can now access workplace protections and rights available to other workers & the sex industry can now be regulated by existing regulatory frameworks for adult industries.

It’s time for South Australia, our ...

Sex work is work, sex workers need rights, and SA needs decrim!

Consensual commercial adult sexual services should not be a crime and in New South Wales, New Zealand, Northern Territory, Victoria and soon Queensland they aren’t. Australian States & Territories have accepted the wealth of internationally supported evidence as well as the lived experience of sex workers and decriminalised the sex industry.

Sex workers in these places can now access workplace protections and rights available to other workers & the sex industry can now be regulated by existing regulatory frameworks for adult industries.

It’s time for South Australia, our once progressive state, to catch up and decriminalise sex work too but we need as many voices as possible to keep the pressure on our politicians.

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I am writing to you as a constituent for International Sex Worker’s Day on June 2nd asking for you to support the decriminalisation of sex work in South Australia.

International Sex Workers Day acknowledges sex workers and allies who in 1975 occupied a Lyon church in France for eight days in protest of heavy-handed and targeted policing. It’s been over 45 years since then yet South Australia still has the most outdated sex work laws in the country that subject sex workers to entrapment and arrest by SAPOL, compromising their health and safety in the workplace. 
 
Sex work is work but under our current laws sex work is not considered work and sex workers cannot access protections and rights. This means workers are less safe at work because they cannot report crimes committed against them, they cannot access mechanisms available to other workers, and their safe work strategies are undermined by the covert methods used by SAPOL to entrap and arrest sex workers. The exclusion of sex work from standard regulatory frameworks and sex workers from access to workplace protections and rights reinforces the stigma and discrimination that pushes the sex industry underground facilitating violence as well as other harms like barriers to accessing healthcare.

I ask you to recognise the evidence that demonstrates decriminalisation as the best model to safeguard rights, support harm minimisation, create safer working environments and to address human trafficking as well as other forms of exploitation. New South Wales, New Zealand, Northern Territory, Victoria and soon Queensland have decriminalised sex work and this reform is well overdue in South Australia.  As a voter committed to seeing the decriminalisation of sex work for South Australia, I urge you to utilise your responsibility as a Member of Parliament by ensuring that this woman-dominated workforce can finally access the same rights and protections as any other workforce in line with the progression made in other states and territories of Australia.

I thank you sincerely for taking the time to read this letter and look forward to your reply that lets me know your intentions regarding the decriminalisation of sex work.

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