Länderberichte AUSTRALIEN:

[Marc of Frankfurt]

[JayR]

Fotos vom Mardi Gras in Sydney auf der Website der Scarlet Alliance

http://www.scarletalliance.org.au/event ... /mardigras

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Radiointerview with Sexworker u Filmmaker Jessie Abraham

und ihre Reise zu Sexworkern in Indien


10 min:
http://blogs.abc.net.au/nt/2010/03/jess ... rkers.html

www.sexWORKisrealWORK.com





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Interview mit Sexworker und Aktivist

von Project Respect, a Sex Worker advocacy group


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWpO-p3DW60[/youtube]


Respect Inc.
Queensland Australia:
www.respectQLD.org.au





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Sexworker Probleme mit Registrierung und Sicherheit


4 Sexworker-Interviews
Northern Territory, AU
8min:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myi27-z7_B0[/youtube]


Petition:
viewtopic.php?p=77900#77900

[Arum]

Skandal-Show: Erster Sex gegen Geld



Sydney - Eine neue Show sorgt weltweit für Aufregung: Darin versteigern Jugendliche ihre Jungfräulichkeit für Geld. Der Macher der Sendung ist bereits vor rechtlichen Problemen ins Ausland geflüchtet.

Hinter dem umstrittenen Format steckt der australische Dokumentarfilmer Justin Sisley. Das Konzept seiner Show lässt sich einfach zusammenfassen: Wer den höchsten Preis zahlt, kann sich das erste Mal Sex mit den Teilnehmer(innen) erkaufen. Die Jungfrauen bekommen zunächst einen Fixbetrag von 20.000 Dollar (umgerechent 12.500 Euro) für die Teilnahme an der Show. Hinzu kommt ein Anteil von 90 Prozent ihres Auktionspreises. Das berichtet die australische Zeitung "Sydney Daily Telegraph".

Falls Sie jetzt denken: "Moment mal! Sex gegen Geld - das ist doch Prostitution!" Dann sehen Sie es genauso wie die australischen Behörden. Die haben Sisley und den Teilnehmern bereits mit einer Anzeige wegen eben dieses Vergehens gedroht, sollten sie ihr Format mit dem Titel "Fame and Fortune" dort umsetzen.

Deswegen ist Sisley mit seinem Team in den US-Bundesstaat Nevada gereist. Dort ist Prostitution legal.

So soll die Sendung nun ablaufen: Interessenten können ihre Gebote für den ersten Sex der Teilnehmer zunächst online abgeben. Bei der Auktion müssen sie aber persönlich anwesend sein.

Geschmacklos: Mit Flyern, die die Jungfrau Maria zeigen und auf denen geschrieben steht, "Jungfrau gesucht", haben die Macher der Show Teilnehmer für die Sendung gesucht.

Eine 21-jährige Teilnehmerin names Veronica erklärt gegenüber dem "Sydney Daily Telegraph": "Technisch gesehen verkaufe ich meine Jungfräulichkeit für Geld und rein technisch gesehen nennt man so etwas Prostitution." Weil sie ihre Jungfräulichkeit aber nur ein einziges Mal verkaufen könne, habe sie auch keine Angst, sich als Protituierte zu fühlen. Veronica: "Ich glaube nicht, dass ich es bedauern werde."

Ein männlicher Teilnehmer namens Alex (20) will über die Versteigerung endlich jemanden finden, mit dem er Sex haben kann. Der 23-jährige John ist zwar eigentlich schwul. Aber er will auch Gebote von Frauen akzeptieren. Dion (20) will dagegen eine traumatische aber nicht verarbeitete Erfahrung vergessen.

Immerhin räumt Filmmacher Sisley gegenüber dem "Sydney Daily Telegraph" ein: "Die Eltern der teilnehmenden Jugendlichen hassen mich!" Kein Wunder.


http://www.op-online.de/nachrichten/wel ... 58047.html


Auf dieser Seite auch:

Sexsucht: Diese Stars sollen betroffen sein

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Weil sie ihre Jungfräulichkeit aber nur ein einziges Mal verkaufen könne, habe sie auch keine Angst, sich als Protituierte zu fühlen.

Wirklich clevere Abgrenzung und Sicherheitsmaßname gegenüber der sog. "Falle Prostitution" ;-)

Abgrenzungsprobleme zwischen Sexworkern:
viewtopic.php?p=32624#32624



Zum Thema "Sexsucht" hier nochmal der Link zum englischen Sexcoaching-Text von Sexarbeiterin Veronica Monet:
viewtopic.php?p=76425#76425 (sw-only)
http://www.theshamefreezone.com/blog/blog6.php





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[Lycisca]

Die Rechtsansicht der australischen Behörden, dass hier Prostitution vorliegt, ist auch nicht nachzuvollziehen: Es fehlt völlig der Aspekt der Gewerbsmäßigkeit, weil ja eine Wiederholung unmöglich ist (so es nicht um operativ vorgetäuschte Jungfräulichkeit geht).

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Sexworker kämpfen öffentlich und über die Medien für ihre Rechte

gegen unfairen Registrierungszwang der stets Kriminalität im Sexbiz unterstellt


English Video Clip
2 min:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/05/15/2900526.htm

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Die konservative Family Protection Society muß sich aufgrund des Anti-Diskriminierungs-Gesetzes bei Sexworkern und der Sexworker-Gewerkschaft mit folgendem Gegendarstellungstext entschuldigen:





Dazu schoneinmal ein englischer Artikel gepostet im Thema "Solwodi und Christen kämpfen gegen Prostitution":
viewtopic.php?p=80018#80018





Und jetzt auch ein Artikel einer Sexarbeiterin:

Stop vilifying people because of their work choices
Hört auf Leute zu verteufeln aufgrund ihrer Berufswahl


A religious group who claimed sex work harms women and breaks up marriages has been forced to apologise to sex workers in Tasmania, Australia. But at what point does religion become bigotry in disguise, and is an apology enough, asks Emily Fletcher.


I am a sex worker. I have been a sex worker for over a decade. I am selective when sharing details of my working life.

So few within the community truly understand what my occupation entails, yet so many appear to have an opinion, not only of my job, but also an estimation of the kind of person I must be.

None have cast judgment as harshly and with such veracity [Aufrichtigkeit] as organisation known simply as The Family Protection Society.

This group of Tasmanians have stated that my work may lead me to develop a mental illness, that I am an uncaring mother, that I have no self-respect and my personal favourite: that the burden of breaking up Tasmanian marriages lays firmly on my shoulders.

The statements were not made in private, nor were there made to me as an individual. Disgustingly, they were published in Hobart’s daily newspaper and they were directed at all those whom they deemed to be working in “prostitution”.

Now that same paper has printed the following apology:

• The Family Protection Society apologises to the sex workers of Tasmania and Scarlet Alliance for any hurt and distress caused to sex workers by statements made by the Family Protection Society and published in the Mercury Newspaper.

Scarlet Alliance is the national sex worker organisation in Australia. Upon enquiring about the reasons for the apology to be given all Scarlet Alliance were able to say is:

• “Scarlet Alliance commenced action under the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Act, 1998 in relation to the Family Protection Society. A conciliation process was held and an apology given and published by the Family Protection Society which advertises in the Mercury.”

Scarlet Alliance’s Tasmanian spokesperson Jade Barker was unable to offer anything further, saying only that the apology was a result of a conciliation and so as the Office of the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, may provide a conciliation service that is neutral and impartial all proceedings must remain confidential.

Jade explained that when signing the agreement it was enforceable, as if it were an order made by the Anti-Discrimination Tribunal and disclosing anything further may result in action under the criminal code.

I know that Scarlet Alliance has been advocating for anti-discrimination laws throughout Australia to address the unacceptably high levels of discrimination that sex workers experience.

I consider myself fortunate in the ability to access support and assistance from Scarlet Alliance and by no means am I diminishing the achievement of forcing this apology. I feel confident that, like me, all Tasmanian sex workers are grateful.

But is the apology enough and am I being ungracious in asking for a more genuine acknowledgement of wrong doing on their behalf? Is this another case of cruel fanaticism being condoned in the name of religion or even worse, as is with this case, the name of family values?

Like all sex workers I have a family and it is my responsibility to care for and protect them from extremism and hatred.

I don’t simply want the Family Protection Society to apologise to me, I want them to apologise to the entire community for setting a moral tone of discrimination and fear.

I want them to apologise for the presumption that they may care for my family with more vigour than I.

And most importantly I want them to say they were wrong.

The most disingenuous argument in acceptance of these discriminatory advertisements, has been the excuse that not everybody in the community thinks that way. Indifference is simply not enough.

I want to know who is The Family Protection Society? A Google search brings up no website or information about this group.

Who pays for the publication of these ads and how is it that they can ask for donations? The Family Protection Society’s affiliation with the church means it is tax-exempt, meaning that I as a taxpayer am subsidising their fanatical and hateful rhetoric.

If I am prepared to stand up and be counted, so must the members of the Family Protection Society.

‘Separate but equal’ is an attitude that always emphasises ‘separate’, not equality and while I have the grace to accept the apology given, I do not, and will not, accept that my choice of works entitles anyone to publicly vilify me.



Emily Fletcher is a 32-year-old Tasmanian sex worker. Visit the Scarlet Alliance website for information relating to sex worker rights in Australia: www.scarletAlliance.org.au

http://www.thescavenger.net/feminism-a- ... 85675.html





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Schweizer Zeitung berichtet über Sexworker Pride zum Welthurentag in Sydney

mit vielen Bildern

http://www.20min.ch/news/kreuz_und_quer/story/12083228



Sexworker Statement gegen Regulationismus in der Sexarbeit



Ginger Snap in Sydney




Sexworker Day 2010:
viewtopic.php?p=81765#81765





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

'We need brothels'


NIGEL ADLAM
June 6th, 2010
Quantcast

BROTHELS should be opened in the Northern Territory, a leading sex worker advocate said.

NT Sex Workers Outreach Program organiser Seranna Shutt said: ``That would be best practice for health and safety.''

Most of Darwin's 50 ``working girls'' operate out of escort agencies and are registered with NT police.

Ms Shutt said the registration system should be scrapped.

She said the personal details of sex workers were lodged with the Major Crimes unit.

``Sex workers are put in the same category as drug lords,'' she said.

"Those details are kept on file for ever.

"There have been cases of former sex workers having routine police checks while applying for jobs as social workers.

"And the police have told the potential employers that the person is "not suitable".

"No other details are given - just 'not suitable' - which means they could be seen as pedophiles or drug dealers."

Ms Shutt said it would be safer and fairer for women to be allowed to work out of brothels.

She said sex workers often plied their trade for a short time.

Some come to Darwin to work only during the dry season.

Ms Shutt has made a 15-minute documentary about sex worker registration called Organised Workers, Not Organised Crime.

Police argue that registration keeps gangsters and under-age girls out of the sex trade.

Ms Shutt's documentary will be shown at the Fistful of Films festival in Civic Park tonight.

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2010/0 ... tnews.html





Rechtslage in Deutschland:

Sexwork und das Bundeszentralregister:
Ordnungswidrikeitsvergehen können zu Berufsverbot führen
http://sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=81625#81625

Öffentlich einsehbares Gewerberegister:
Sexworer-Daten der Berlin Gewerbebehörde im Internet auslesbar:
viewtopic.php?p=71668#71668





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

Australische Sexworker:

Deklaration zum intl. Hurentag


viewtopic.php?p=82185#82185

[Marc of Frankfurt]

West Australien will Prostitution "legalisieren":
= Vertreibung aus den bisher angestammten Gebieten
= Schaffung von "Sex Ghettos" (Rotlichtvierteln)
= Schließung von bisher geduldeten Betriebe
= Lizensierungsregister
= Mehr Polizeikontrollen
= Zwangsregistrierung für Sexworker
= Zwangsgesundheitsuntersuchung


WA to legalise prostitution


June 20, 2010
AAP

Western Australia is set to legalise prostitution in a bid to improve health standards and keep brothels out of residential areas.

Hundreds of suburban brothels are expected to close when WA Attorney-General Christian Porter ends decades of "turning a blind eye" and starts regulating the sex industry next year.

Prostitution is illegal in WA but police rarely lay charges unless they are related to underage sex or unsafe practices.

Under the new legislation, brothels will be licensed and confined to designated commercial and industrial areas, and police will be given powers to investigate and forcibly close those which fail to comply.

Sex businesses will need to follow health and safety standards to obtain and maintain their licences.

Individual sex workers will need to register with a central agency and will undergo compulsory health and blood checks.

They may also be required to carry ID cards.

Mr Porter said suburban operators would be given a grace period from next year to either close or move to a licensed area.

Applications for brothels would first be put to local councils and then assessed by state regulators.

Mr Porter said the new regulations would limit problems in non-residential areas.

WA brothel madams welcomed the move over the weekend but feared the bid to register individual prostitutes would drive some underground.

While most agreed the new regulations would improve health and safety in the industry, they said some sex workers would be loathe to have their personal records on file.

"This will lead a lot of workers into going underground," North Perth brothel owner Donna McGuirk told The West Australian newspaper on Saturday.

"We are quite lucky in WA in that we don't have girls working with organised crime, but the sensitivity of this information that they want the girls to hand over means that many will try to work outside the system."

Kalgoorlie madam Bruna Meyers told the paper she was opposed to a central register but welcomed plans for a licensing system and health checks.

She said it would crack down on operators advertising unsafe sex, which was currently illegal but not widely policed.

Opposition attorney-general spokesman John Quigley said confining brothels to industrial areas would create "sex ghettos".

© 2010 AAP
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-na ... -yot6.html





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

FB

Seranna Shutt


wird ihr Land Northern Territories Australia (N.T.) auf der IAC 2010 in Wien vertreten und einen Vortrag halten sowie auch ihr Film-Projekt über Sexarbeit in den Ländern der Welt (s.o.) um eine Dokumentation zu Sexwork in Österreich erweitern...

Da können wir/ihr vom Sexworker Forum sie sicherlich beraten...


Hier ist ihre Präsentation gelistet:
viewtopic.php?p=82802#82802

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Bericht aus dem australischen Bundesstaat New South Wales (NSW)


Weniger Mordfälle wenn Prostitution erlaubt wird

'Fewer Murders' If Prostitution Allowed


mit vielen Bildern und einem klasse Video (3 Minuten):
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-New ... ds_Reports
11:22am UK, Saturday July 24, 2010
Ian Woods, Australia correspondent

A leading expert on prostitution has insisted that Britain would have fewer murders if the sex industry was decriminalised.

His comments come after Prime Minister David Cameron said it may be time to "look again" at the UK's sex laws, in the wake of three killings in Bradford.

Professor Basil Donovan, the head of the Sexual Health Department at the University of New South Wales, has seen the effect of legalising sex work - the Australian state NSW decriminalised prostitution 15 years ago.

New South Wales has around 300 council approved brothels, 200 of them in Sydney. He said making the industry legal, makes it safer for all those involved.

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Professor Basil Donovan

"Decriminalisation results in a healthier sex industry, which means that if your son or your husband sneaks off to the brothel at night, he's far more likely to come home healthy."

The cases of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV have fallen, with prostitutes able to get condoms for free through government agencies.

Professor Donovan told Sky News sex workers are more likely to cooperate with police investigations, if they are not threatened with prosecution.

"You couldn't get a Steve Wright [Massenmörder England] situation in New South Wales," he said.

Wright murdered five women in Ipswich in 2006. Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, preyed on prostitutes in the 1970s and, more recently, three women were killed in Bradford.

Safe sex notice for clients



A safe sex 'health' warning to clients

Prof Donovan said the Wright case was made worse because "you had an industry which was terrified of the police and gave them criminal status".

The professor continued: "One of the things criminal status does is it depersonalises people. People lose their rights to protection by the state."

Amore is a nine-room brothel in the west of Sydney. Clients pay around £150 an hour to have sex in rooms which are well equipped and furnished with a bed, spa bath and shower.

One of the women who works there agreed to give Sky News an insight into the profession. She called herself Randy Dollars [cooler Name für Medieninterviews] and said she was 26 and a former clerical worker.

Australian prostitute Randy Dollars

"Randy Dollars" feels safe working as a prostitute

In some other parts of Australia, she would be breaking the law and running the risk of having the premises raided by police. But not in New South Wales.

"I can actually ask the police for help and support and they're not going to try to arrest me, and I don't have to hide my profession," she said.

"If there's a client or a person that I feel is of interest to the police, I can call the police and tell them. In a criminalised setting, I would not do that."

Consequently she says that sex work is like any other job, just "less stressful".

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Jannelle Faulkes, CEO of Scarlet Alliance
www.scarletAlliance.org.au

Janelle Faulkes, chief executive of sex workers association Scarlett Alliance

"It is meant to be a relaxing environment and when you're worried about things like police raids, or what's going to happen next? Is someone going to bang on the door and rush in and arrest you? It's not relaxing."

Legalising the profession, she said, meant it is no longer prone to police corruption or links to the underworld.

Although the rules are meant to keep brothels away from schools and residential neighbourhoods, Amore is on a busy main road, close to smart apartments and opposite a public park and children's playground.

The sex workers have their own association which lobbies on their behalf.

Janelle Faulkes, the chief executive of Scarlet Alliance, said what goes on in a brothel is similar to any other neighbourhood - consenting adults have sex behind closed doors.

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Sydney's Kings Cross - an area well known for its sex industry

Kings Cross in Sydney, an area well known for the sex trade

"I think we really need to address what is the fear of what goes on in a brothel.," she said.

"It is adults having sex and going about their day-to-day business. It isn't really something that's going to have a strong impact on the community."

Mr Cameron talked of "looking again" at Britain's prostitution laws in the wake of the murders in Bradford, but it seems unlikely that it will be high up the Government's agenda.

There are not many votes to be won by decriminalisation and, potentially, many votes to be lost if it sparked a moral crusade by opponents of reform.

The law was changed in New South Wales with bi-partisan support but, even 15 years later, it was hard to persuade politicians to talk about the success of liberalising sex laws.

It may be legal, but the stigma remains and, like the business itself, they prefer to discuss it behind closed doors.

[Arum]

Pole dancer in Oz elections

A STRIPPER is adding some much needed glamour to the Aussie elections - by trying to get the Sex Party into the country's senate.

Dancer Zahra Stardust - real name Marianne Leishman - was Australian Pole Dancing Open Pairs Champion, 2009.

The 27-year-old's campaign kicks off next week but she has already been out and about trying to generate support.

And by the looks of these pictures - she's not going to have to try very hard.

The human rights specialist, who hopes to represent New South Wales, said: "So far, I've been handing out condoms along with instructions about how to vote.

"I've also been doing some dancing on street poles to show people what I can do."

Marianne has also been a life model for artists, a trapeze artist, fire twirler and a burlesque performer.

And the brainy beauty has been a paralegal at a top Sydney law firm for the past two years.

The Australian Sex Party wants to address the "sexual needs of Australia in the 21st Century".

Its policies include improving sex education in schools and legalising gay marriage.

The election takes place on August 21.



http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... &ATTR=News

www.zahra.org.au (Mit interessanter Bücherauswahl auf der Vorderseite)

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Zu den Wahlen und der Sex Partei


... One minor party that has been prepared to go out on a limb is the Australian Sex Party, whose leader Fiona Patten has proposed an overhaul of Australia's censorship laws and called for fixed-term state and federal governments as a means of saving the nation many millions of dollars.

Earlier this week, Queensland-based criminologist Paul Wilson endorsed the Sex Party's radical new policy to decriminalise personal drug use. Relying on data from Portugal's four-year-old program of decriminalising all drugs for personal use, and the work of [former Supreme Court judge] Ken Crispin QC in his new book, The Quest for Justice, this policy could empty our jails by 70 per cent and save us billions of dollars.

For anyone who has been robbed by desperate junkies hungry for drugs that are illegal and thus extremely expensive, this will also strike a chord.

With such a seemingly intractable drug problem, at the very least Australians should be thinking outside the square.

Zeitungsartikel ganz:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nationa ... 5904808930





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[Ariane]

Ich wünsche der Sex Partei viel Erfolg und dass das Lubricant reicht, um noch den letzten Dorf-Sheriff des Landkreises zu schmieren.

Soweit ich es in England und Deutschland mitbekommen habe, ist es tatsächlich so, daß es unter liberalisierten Verhältnissen zu weniger Gewalt gegenüber SW kommt; wenn eine SW zur Person wird, wird sie rechtlich betrachtet erst zum Menschen. In England gilt dies übrigens offiziell qua Gesetz erst seit kurzem, in Griechenland dürfen SW bis heute nicht in den bürgerlichen Stand der Ehe treten, da sie als Un-Person gelten.

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Drei offenlebende Sexworker stellen sich morgen zur Parlamentswahl:

in Victoria: Christian Vega,
in Northern Territory: Seranna Shutt die auch auf der Weld AIDS Konferenz in Wien war und
in South Australia: the wonderful Ari Reid

Sex Partei Australien
www.sexparty.org.au