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Reconceptualizing Exiting and Career Development in Sex Work: Work Like Any Other

Reconceptualizing Exiting and Career Development in Sex Work: Work Like Any Other

Sandy, Larissa
Matthews, Daisy
Nes-Iadicola, Petrea

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Advances in Sex Work Studies

CriminologyGeneral LawPoverty & Social Work

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ISBN10: 3032100763
ISBN13: 9783032100764
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 3 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.20 Depth: 8.37
Language: English
This book explores 'exiting' programs for sex workers, which are behavioural change interventions that support people to stop selling sex. This book examines questions about how we should conceptualise and respond to 'exiting' and, by centring sex workers' voices, it provides evidence of the impact of these programs. It examines sex work 'exiting', not as something sex workers need to stop doing, but as part of sex work careers. Drawing on interviews and a global program review to establish best practice, this book challenges the idea of sex work as something a person is 'in' or 'out' of. It also explores sex workers' resistance to this area of programming to highlight the power and politics of 'exiting'. Using a labour framing and seeing sex work as career, this book repositions 'exiting' as career development and sheds new light on everyday working circumstances, popular discourses, policies and programs and grassroots struggles for change. As a co-collaboration incorporating knowledge from researchers and lived experience experts, this book is a unique addition that challenges the dominant abolitionist, anti-sex work framings and is of interest to academics, policy makers, sex worker support organisations and non-government organisations globally.

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