NCJ Number
140545
Editor(s)
S A Gerull,
B Halstead
Date Published
1992
Length
264 pages
Annotation
Presentations from a 1991 Australian conference on "Sex Industry and Public Policy" identify issues in the public control of the sex industry and discuss overseas sex industry initiatives, economics and the sex industry, and industrial issues.
Abstract
The opening paper presents a law reformer's perspective on the sex industry in the Australian Capital Territory, followed by three papers that clarify some of the issues in public policy toward the sex industry. Topics discussed in these papers are feminist approaches to the sex industry, a rationale for public opposition to the "sexploitation" industry, and legal perspectives in the clarification of the issues of the sex industry. Four papers on overseas sex industry initiatives focus on public policy toward pornography and sex crimes; feminist arguments and the freedom of expression in the reform of New Zealand's censorship laws; the regulation of prostitution in Canada, the United States, and Australia; and social control of the sex industry in New Zealand. Two papers consider economic issues associated with the sex industry, namely, economics, legislation, and piracy in the erotic video market; and taxation in relation to the sex industry. Seventeen papers deal with topics classified as "industrial" issues. The issues covered include legalization of sex industry enterprises, the rights of workers in the sex industry, the legal regulation of prostitution, the sexual health and safety of prostitutes, and the control of on-street prostitution under community policing. Presentation references and data and a subject index