[GA - WITHDRAWN] Regulating the Sex Industry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. That body must:
   1. Establish and upkeep an impartial channel for reporting and addressing abuse, unfair treatment, or subversion of individual rights in any sex work context; Any valid reported complaints must be investigated thoroughly by said body.
      
      
   2. License and register all sex workers prior to sex work or employment at a sex work institution. Before licensing any new workers, that body must:
      1. Confirm those workers 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;
         
         
      2. Inform workers of their individual rights during sex work, including their rights to consent and protection;
         
         
      3. Clarify that any violation or transgression of the mandates in this resolution may result in criminal justice or the loss or suspension of their sex work license.
      
      
   3. Put protections 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;
      
      
   4. Provide and mandate the usage of barrier contraception during any form of sex work involving penetration;
   
   
3. Sex work institutions must:
   1. Not participate 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;
      
      
   2. Abide by the same laws, regulations, and responsibilities as in any other industry, including health, safety, and compensation regulations;
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. Said testing and vaccination must be provided by each national body at a reasonable price, or, if possible, gratis.
      
      
   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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