South african sex industry

Summary Selling sex has been illegal in South Africa since at least the early s and buying sex was criminalised in SWEAT has a year history in organising sex workers, advocating for and delivering services to South African Sex Workers. We have facilitated birth of two. African Crime Quarterly and is coauthor of Selling Sex in Cape Town: Sex Work and Human Trafficking in a. South African City (ISS ). DOI: /.

South Africa's sex industry has found for itself a kind of legal and growing niche in the informal economic sector. Increasingly Social organisations are pressing for its recognition and regulation. As SWEAT's director, Ilse Paauw, notes, "The sex . Sex workers are one of the most marginalised groups in contemporary South Africa. They are vulnerable to harassment, violence, abuse and ill-health, such as sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Because sex work is illegal under South African law, sex workers have little legal protection. They are criminalised and stigmatised. The need to better understand sex work / prostitution in South Africa has been thrown into sharp relief by the work of the South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) which has been reviewing legislation on sex work / prostitution for some years, and is under pressure to make firm recommendations.

SEX WORKERS AND SEX WORK IN SOUTH AFRICA 5 2 WHAT IS SEX WORK? In its most simple form, sex work can be defined as ‘sex-for-reward’. Sex work is labour or a service related to the exchange of sex or acts of sexuality for a negotiated reward. While the ‘sex industry’ could include. Sex workers in South Africa experience systemic human rights violations and outright violence, discrimination, and harassment at the hands of the police at an alarming rate. Thousands of sex workers have no other option but to continue working, placing their health and lives at risk to support themselves and their families. All aspects of sex work — the buying and selling of sex, as well as making a living by means of sex work by being a pimp or operating a brothel — are illegal in South Africa. Sipho’s beat in western Tshwane was a place known as “The Bush,” a scrub-covered field.

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