This is the audio of a talk – Sex Work 101 - given by a member of the Workers Solidarity Movement after a WSM Dublin branch meeting in April 2017.

• Talk begins – 0:50
• Q&A – 15:00

A new Sexual Offences Bill was passed in the Republic of Ireland under the radar in spring 2017. First published in 2015, a seemingly unlikely alliance between religious conservatives and liberals under the 'Turn Off the Red Light' banner pushed for the criminalisation of the purchase of sexual services, also known as the 'Swedish Model', despite being practically unanimously opposed by actual sex workers.

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Resources

• Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI)
• Ugly Mugs Ireland Reports
• Irish Mirror - Irish Men Continue to Pay for Sex Even Though It's Against the Law
• The Laws Sex Workers Really Want (TED Talk)
   
• Sex Work Decriminalised in New Zealand (1)
• Sex Work Decriminalised in New Zealand (2)
   
• Turn off the Red Light: Should we advocate it?
• Sex and Sex Work from an Anarcha-Feminist Perspective
• Sex Workers Say “No” to the Sexual Offences Bill
• Stormont Bans Paying for Sex Work
   
• UN Child Sex Ring in Haiti (mentioned in talk)