End Demand Policy: Buyer-Focused Approaches and Debate
End demand policy aims to reduce demand for commercial sexual services by targeting buyers while addressing exploitation and providing support services.
End demand policy aims to reduce demand for commercial sexual services by targeting buyers while addressing exploitation and providing support services.
Full decriminalization removes criminal penalties from consensual adult sex work while keeping laws against trafficking, coercion, and exploitation.
Partial criminalization describes legal systems where some activities are prohibited while others remain permitted or treated differently.
An independent sex worker manages their own sex work activities without direct third-party control while navigating issues of autonomy, safety, privacy, and rights.
Sex worker rights address safety, dignity, healthcare access, privacy, and protection from discrimination for people involved in sex work.
Labor rights for sex workers address workplace safety, healthcare access, dignity, consent, and protection from exploitation within sex work contexts.
A sex worker-led organization is a group directed by sex workers to address health, safety, rights, education, and community concerns.
Learn what a sex worker is, which consensual adult services and performances the term may include, and how sex work differs from trafficking and exploitation.
Learn what sex work means, which adult services and performances it may include, and how it differs from exploitation, trafficking, and transactional sex.