AIC Conference Proceedings
No. 14: Sex industry and public policy : proceedings of a conference held 6-8 May 1991
Sally-Anne Gerull and Boronia Halstead (eds)
ISBN 0 642 18291 4 ; ISSN 1034-5086
Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 1992
Abstract
These conference proceedings cover various perspectives on the sex industry; overseas sex industry initiatives; economics and the sex industry; and industrial issues. Some of the issues specifically addressed are: health matters such as HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases; brothel standards; working conditions for sex workers; X rated videos; censorship; law reform; and law enforcement.
Contents
- The sex industry in the Australian Capital Territory : a law reformer's perspective
Bernard Collaery
Clarification of issues
- Feminist approaches to the sex industry
Barbara Sullivan - Why should we oppose the 'sexploitation' industry
Rev. Fred Nile - Legal perspectives in clarifying the issues of the sex industry
Carolyn Pickles
Overseas sex industry perspectives
- Pornography, sex crime, and public policy
Berl Kutchinsky - The reform of New Zealand's censorship laws : 'feminist' arguments and the freedom of expression
William K Hastings - The desired object : prostitution in Canada, United States and Australia
Suzanne E. Hatty - Sex, law and social control : the sex industry in New Zealand Today
Jan Jordan
Economics and the sex industry
- Economics, legislation and piracy
John Lark - Taxation and the sex industry
Bernie Gallagher
Industrial issues
- The development of theoretical approaches to sex work in Australian sex-worker rights groups
Andrew Hunter - Victorian situation with legislation
Sheranne Dobinson - The process of change in Queensland : a worker's perspective
Kris Anderson - The Victorian brothel owners' perspective
Peter Richardson - From the inside
Amanda Wade - Sexual health and safety amongst a group of prostitutes : at work and in their private lives
Roberta Perkins - To work or not to work?
Cheryl Overs - Legal regulation of prostitution : what or who is being controlled
Linda Hancock - Sex work and regulation: holding on to an image - a sociological reflection
Grazyna Zajdow - Industrial aspects of the sex industry
Victor Gleeson - Prostitution in Victoria : the role of local government - an inner city perspective
George Bennett - The politics of vice : regulation and policy making in the Australian Capital Territory
Michael Moore - Censorship and public opinion
Robert Swan - Pornography and regulation
Shirley Walters - Law enforcement, prostitution and pornography
Bernard Collaery - Community policing and the policing factor of on-street prostitution in the Kings Cross Police Patrol
James McCloskey and Mike Lazarus - Policing of the sex industry in the Australian Capital Territory
Brian Brinkler