{"id":818,"date":"2022-06-09T09:15:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T13:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/?page_id=818"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:10:36","slug":"sex-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/in-print\/volume-xxiii-issue-2-annual-review-2022\/sex-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sex work<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">has a long and lucrative history in the United States and around the world. Today, the multi-billion-dollar commercial sex industry encompasses a\u00a0 wide range of sexual services<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">some legal and others not<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">including pornography, stripping, phone and internet sex, and sexual services obtained in brothels, massage parlors, through escort services, or on the street. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Until the nineteenth century, prostitution was generally legal in the United\u00a0 States and flourished in large cities. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the late nineteenth century, groups concerned with social morality<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">especially religious groups and women\u2019s societies\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">crusaded against prostitution, leading some states to regulate and eventually ban prostitution.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1910, Congress passed the Mann Act, which outlawed the transportation of individuals across state lines for the purpose of prostitution, and also ordered the deportation of undocumented immigrant sex workers.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After various attempts to regulate prostitution, the federal government enacted the\u00a0 Standard Vice Repression Act in 1919, which prohibited the buying and selling of sexual acts.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/06\/Sex-Work.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Sex Work<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sex work1 has a long and lucrative history in the United States and around the world. Today, the multi-billion-dollar commercial sex industry encompasses a\u00a0 wide range of sexual services\u2014some legal and others not\u2014including pornography, stripping, phone and internet sex, and sexual services obtained in brothels, massage parlors, through escort services, or on the street. Until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8524,"featured_media":0,"parent":739,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-818","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/818\/revisions\/829"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}