Seconder: Laura Prisco Warwick No: This section should include any facts, figures or statements that you believe are relevant to the topic of your policy. Remember in this section clear and effective referencing is important.
This section should be about how you want the SU to react, the outcome of this policy. Current selection: no. Complete your profile Thanks for logging in to WarwickSU. Please take a few moments to complete your profile. Update Your Profile. That sex work is a broad industry, including but not limited to full-service sex work, camming, stripping, domination and phone-sex lines.
That, currently, full-service sex work exchanging sexual services for money is not illegal, but associated activities, such as soliciting in a public place or operating a brothel, are. The lack of adequate support for sex workers is already isolating sex workers, leading them into more dangerous situations. These numbers will always be an underestimation due to students not feeling comfortable to publicly say that they are a sex worker.
That students have been permanently excluded from their university around sex work 3,4. That there is currently no specific University Policy regarding sex work, including no exemption of it from the Student Sexual Misconduct Policy. This Union Believes: This section should include opinions or supporting statements for your policy.
Sex work is legitimate work. That, with the rise of living costs, tuition fees, slashing of benefits, amongst other costs, it is highly likely that some students will do sex work alongside their studies. Decriminalisation would ensure that sex workers feel able to report unsafe clients or violence at work without the worry of criminal repercussions, work together for safety, and that those who wish to leave the sex industry are not left with criminal records as a result of their job.
