Stopping Police and DAs from Using Condoms to Convict Sex Workers
By Crystal DeBoise, cross-posted at On The Issues Magazine Last winter, “Sheila,” a sex worker in her early 20s, had just finished her counseling session with me at the Sex Workers Project, and was heading out the door. Sheila was seeking counseling from the Sex Workers Project to help her make a career change, but [...]
...read moreHIV in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Populations
I haven’t posted much in the last couple of weeks. I’ve been away at the Anwernekenhe National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander HIV/AIDS Alliance’s National HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health Conference in sunny Cairns. It was a really great four day conference populated by mostly Indigenous people from all areas of Australia, some from the HIV [...]
...read moreNews Flash, Pay Attention: HIV Is About Sex
This is a guest post by Clarisse Thorn, who blogs at Pro-Sex Outreach, Open-Minded Feminism. Today is World AIDS Day. I don’t think about HIV as much as I did a few months ago, when I was still in Africa and my job was to help with the epidemic. But today, I’m thinking about it, [...]
...read moreThe Australian Response to HIV
As so often happens with my posts, the beginning of this one lies in someone else’s comment thread. A short while ago, Ren posted her thoughts on the recent HIV cases in the porn industry and condom use. She mentioned that, statistically, she’d be a lot safer having sex with anyone in the mainstream porn [...]
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