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...Dharman Jeyasingham Across many Western countries, a substantial proportion of public toilets have either closed or been materially adapted in order to prevent their use for sex, while sexual interactions in public spaces generally, and toilets in particular, are policed more effectively than ever...

...Jayne Swift This article examines how, in the public eye, the hooker became happy. Extending Sara Ahmed’s concept of the “happiness duty,” the article explicates how sex positivity has inaugurated “respectability” politics within sex worker social movements. The author argues that sex worker social...

...Joel Sanders; Susan Stryker A long-simmering moral panic over the presence of transgender people in sex-segregated public toilets has reached an acute state since the spring of 2015, as an unprecedented wave of mass-culture visibility for trans* issues has intersected with recent court decisions...

... the vulnerability of all identity. Most important, I mean to honor Bersani’s abidingly unpopular recogni- tion that however much sex is put out in public, made the medium of some new and improved society, sex invokes an urge to get away from others as much as an urge to join with them. We can begin...

..., privacy, and the commodity. There is a long his- tory of the regulation of oral pleasures in the name of public health in the twentieth-century North Atlantic world, though sex and cigarettes...

... York : Routledge . Califia Pat . 1994 . Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex . Pittsburgh : Cleis . Chow Rey . 2002 . The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism . New York : Columbia University Press . Delphy Christine . [1970] 1977 . “The Main Enemy...

... is faith in man instead of faith in God, Humanism was officially ruled a religion by the U.S. Supreme Court. Humanism promotes: (1) situation ethics, (2) evolution, (3) sexual freedom, in­ cluding public sex education courses, and (4) internationalism. Humanism centers on self because it recognizes...

... into the real world, the other parties involved could simply delete their current screen personae and create new ones, thereby ensuring anonymity. Besides the three varieties of compu-sex outlined above, there are also tamer versions of on-line romance that use the same conver­ sational tools (public chats...

... sex, produces for all these constituencies the question, “What makes them do it?”3 Finding an answer to this question is the impetus behind an ever-growing number of public health studies that have...

..., the change in the law is not commensurate with a more widely held view among the Indian public that sex work should be banned, but it builds on hegemonic ideas of the existence of an extreme form of patriarchy among the world s poor and is commensurate with the interests of private capital in appropriating...

... most peoples has been recognized as a social evil. The burden of proof, therefore, is thrown on those writers who claim that sex and marriage relations may be safely left without public control. It is true that Russia has inaugurated a system of marriage and divorce based wholly upon private consent...

... flies in the face of the long-standing notions that sex work particularly among Black women becomes a public nuisance because it mostly takes place in pub- lic spaces like streets, alleys, and parked vehicles. The value Shayna places on her services, in tandem with the risks presented by rendering...

... to a young friend. It was said that the lady to whom it was addressed did not appreciate it as a com­ pliment either to herself or her sex, but it was so favorably regarded by the public that it was printed in America as well as in England. Summarized briefly its suggestions to the bride were: to avoid...

... Judith . 2004 . “Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual?” In Undoing Gender , 102 – 30 . New York : Routledge . Conrad Ryan , ed. 2014 . Against Equality: Queer Revolution Not Mere Inclusion . Oakland : AK Press . Cott Nancy F. 2002 . Public Vows: A History of Marriage...

... labor are renewed combining humanitarianism, social welfare, and selfish exploitation. Arguments are mustered regarding the employment of immigrants or racial minorities, as they are regarding the employ­ ment of women particularly married women. Hence controversy regarding sex discrimination...

... of all necessary to be firmly assured that now and for the future one has found oneself. The Second Sex It Changed My Life: Feminist Responses to The Second Sex. Ever since its publication The Second Sex has produced a surpris­ ingly contradictory range of responses from women. The liberating effects...

... beyond sex (not just the queer scholars who might have, you know, been there and done that, aged out, made art, bought property, endured AIDS, forged a couple, taken hormones, had events, reproduced...

... is a lecturer in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexual- ity Studies at the University of Minnesota. A public scholar and activist, Swift is working on a book project entitled, Lusty Ladies: Sex Work and Sex-Positive Politics, 1970 2013. You can reach her at drjayneswift.com. doi 10.1215/00382876-9423078 ...

... in the United States and the ongoing sex segregation of toilets to the desperate dearth of facilities around the world, the provision and governance of the toilet is a politically charged phenomenon. The public toilet serves as a site of the production and regulation of sex, gender, sexuality, class...

... of workers can be more meaning- fully addressed in public discourse. While stigma and respectability politics still exist in most sex work contexts regardless of legal status, the potential for sex workers to organize and advocate for the right to work safely is inversely related to criminalization. In Kate...