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Asian Labour Update




Issue No. 33 : Sex Workers
  • SEX WORKERS NEED LABOUR PROTECTION
    by Ed Shepherd The issue of prostitution is generally swept under the carpet. Yet this is a growing business already worth billions of dollars and exists to some degree in all nations. It is a complex and contentious subject, involving increasing numbers of children and men. However, in order . . .
  • AN INTERVIEW: SEX WORKERS ARE WORKERS
    Ah Yim heads a non-governmental organisation called Zi Teng in Hong Kong. She founded the group in 1997 to research and represent Hong Kong's sex workers. Ah Yim's group uses the term 'sex worker' as opposed to 'prostitute' intentionally, because of the pejorative implications of the latter word; by . . .
  • SEX WORKERS' STORIES
    Sex workers in Hong Kong speak. Following are accounts given by sex workers and a discussion which followed the conference in Zhuhai in January. Andy I am a sex worker from Hong Kong. My name is Andy. I want to talk about how I became involved in the business and what my work is. My two collea . . .
  • SEX WORK IN CHINA
    The following information is taken from the Research Report on Mainland Chinese Sex Workers - Hong Kong, Macau and Town B in the Pearl River Delta, available from Zi Teng or Asia Monitor Resource Center. The sex trade is booming in China, having benefited from the country's effective embrace of c . . .
  • SEX WORKERS IN MACAU
    By Kendy Yim, Ziteng project researcher Usually sex workers wait for clients on the streets near hotels. After reaching agreements with clients on the deal, they take the clients to their rooms. No third party is involved in their transactions. As they stay in Macau only for a short period, they . . .
  • A SEX WORKER FROM CHINA IN MACAU
    My family name is Wang. I am from Changsha in Hunan. I will not tell you my age. I have five brothers and sisters. I attended school from seven years old until I was 19. Then I wanted to go to university, but my family had no money so I couldn't go. When I first left home to work, I went to Zh . . .
  • SEX WORK IN CAMBODIA
    Presented by Sam Vuthy, information from the Brief Information on the Prostitution Situation in Cambodia by Cambodian Women's Development Agency Many women and children have been trafficked from rural areas in Cambodia and neighbouring countries to Cambodian cities, especially Phnom Penh, to be p . . .
  • CAMBODIA: SEX WORKERS' EXPERIENCES
    Phally I am a sex worker called Phally and I am 20. My father used to be a tricycle rider and my mother sells water lilies and piglets. Before I started sex work, I was studying at school in the morning. In the afternoon after school I sold hats in the streets to help my parents with the family's . . .
  • WORKING CONDITIONS OF JAPANESE SEX WORKERS:CHALLENGES AND PROBLEMS
    By Yukiko Kaname, organiser of a project on sex workers' views of their working conditions The biggest challenge to the sex industry in Japan is that it is difficult to identify problems. Due to discriminatory attitudes of national legislation and society against sex work, sex workers cannot obtai . . .
  • SEX WORK IN SOUTH KOREA
    By Yu, Tae Hee, United Voice (Hansori) for the Eradication of Prostitution in Korea General Situation Prostitute Women and Client Statistic Since prostitution is illegal, there are no official statistics on prostitution. However, according to surveys by civic organisations, there are over 300, . . .
  • SEX WORK IN TAIWAN
    Shouchin, Taiwan Association of Licensed Prostitutes (TALP) Collective of Sex Workers and Supporters (COSWAS), Taiwan Jean Chou, Pink Collar Solidarity, Taiwan Taiwanese governmental control over the sex industry (Government policies on the sex industry in Taiwan) The Criminal Act and The So . . .
  • LATIN AMERICAN SEX WORKERS
    By Ana Enriquez Latin American sex workers' organising attempts go back to 1982 when the Ecuadorian sex workers formed an organisation. Six years later they went on strike to resist police malpractice and exploitation within the brothels, and to gain attention for their demands for decent working . . .
  • Comfort Women: Refuting the View of Being Licensed Prostitutes
    By Yuki Fujime, Associate Professor of Osaka University of Foreign Studies, in Men and Prostitution: Why Men Buy Women in Women's Asia 21, Voices from Japan No.5 September 1999 People who disapprove of any further post-war compensation by Japan repeatedly claim that comfort women were licensed pro . . .
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