[GA - WITHDRAWN] Regulating the Sex Industry

Regulating the Sex Industry
Category: Regulation | Area of Effect: Labour Rights
Proposed by: Thousand Branches | Onsite Topic​

The World Assembly,

Acknowledging that regulations must be put in place to protect the rights and freedoms of sex workers and to prevent potential injustices in the sex industry; hereby enacts as follows:

1. In this resolution,
   1. a “sex worker” is any consenting adult who receives pecuniary payment in return for sexual services, performances, or any other consensual sexual act;
      
      
   2. a “sex work institution” is any club, brothel, network, or other organization that provides an avenue for legal sex work or employs legal sex workers.
2. Member nations that legalize any form of sex work must establish a national body for the regulation of the sex industry in their nation. All such bodies must establish an impartial channel for reporting and addressing abuse, unfair treatment, or subversion of individual rights in any sex work institution; Any valid reported complaints must be investigated thoroughly by said body.
   
   
3. Every sex worker must be employed at a sex work institution and those sex work institutions must be licensed, registered, and regularly inspected by this national body to ensure that:
   1. Protections are put in place to prevent sex workers from facing physical, sexual, or psychological abuse/violence during sex work or as a part of any employment at a sex work institution;
      
      
   2. Sex workers are allowed to form labor unions (and meet regularly) to advocate for fair pay, fair working conditions, or to protest infringements of their rights;
      
      
   3. Prior to employment at any sex work institution, future workers are informed of their individual rights during sex work, including their rights to consent and protection;
      
      
   4. No sex work institution participates in sex trafficking, blackballing, or any other form of physical, sexual, or psychological harm to their employees in an effort to subvert those workers' right to consent;
      
      
   5. All sex workers, employers, employer agents, and clients confirm through this national body, prior to employment or participation in sex work, that they are of legal age of consent in their nation and do not have a history of abuse, sex offenses, or any other action that might lead to the harm of others involved;
      
      
   6. All sex work institutions abide by the same laws, regulations, and responsibilities as in any other industry, including health, safety, and compensation regulations;
      
      
   7. Sex work institutions provide and mandate the usage of barrier contraception during any form of sex work involving penetration; and
      
      
   8. Sex work institutions and employers are made aware that any violation or transgression of the aforementioned mandates may result in criminal justice or the loss or suspension of a sex work license.
4. 1. Any participants in sex work must receive complete STI testing – or vaccination when it is available – prior to skin-on-skin sexual contact or the exchange of bodily fluids, and must continue to receive testing on all STIs (that are not covered by prior vaccination) on a regular and frequent basis while they continue to participate in said sexual contact. All such testing and vaccination for sex workers is provided by the employer of those workers.
      
      
   2. Any client or sex worker who has contracted an STI may not participate in skin-on-skin sexual contact or the exchange of bodily fluids as a part of any kind of sex work until the time in which that STI is fully and verifiably cured or treated to the point where it is no longer sexually transmittable.
      
      
   3. Participants in skin-on-skin sexual contact or the exchange of bodily fluids as a part of sex work must inform all other participants if they carry any incurable STIs that have been treated to a point of non-transmissibility.

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Every sex worker must be employed at a sex work institution

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St George:

Against - this resolution has two glaring faults that mean it shouldn't be passed. Firstly:

This line bars self-employment entirely - reducing the bargaining power of the sex worker and their own employment choices, requiring them to be contracted to another individual or organisation.

Secondly, the entirety of 4. needs a major rework, as it requires sex workers to divulge private health information that isn't relevant to anyone but themselves - whether they have a non-transmissible STI. If it's not transmissible, then why should such private health information be divulged?

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