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NYC sex workers avoiding condoms due to fear of getting caught for prostitution
by Rishi Sat Mar 09, 2013 5:16 pm
http://www.dnaindia.com/health/report_nyc-sex-workers-avoiding-condoms-due-to-fear-of-getting-caught-for-prostitution_1808036
The unnamed woman was wearing jean shorts and a “tight” shirt and had been standing outdoors for about 30 minutes.
After she had a conversation with a “passing man,” an officer searched her bag, where he found a condom and 1.25 dollars and arrested her, according to the publication.
While condoms themselves are not illegal, police in many cities are allegedly using them as the basis for evidence of prostitution and arrest, a trend that public health experts say is happening more often as police continue to crack down on the time-old trade.
Nearly half the participants in the study who were involved in the sex trade said they had not carried condoms “out of fear that it may get them in trouble with the police or lead to their arrest,” PROS sociologists wrote.
“For all too many people in the sex trade, the importance of safe sex is outweighed by the importance of avoiding police harassment, humiliation, sexual and physical abuse, and arrest, as well as the potential indirect consequences of arrest,” the study stated.
New York City itself hands out more than 30 million condoms each year at clinics, health fairs and other centers through the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. But the distribution is nothing short of ironic, given that some key communities are now afraid to carry them.
A New York sex worker told Human Rights Watch as part of the group’s 2012 study “Sex Workers at Risk” that she can only carry one condom because police catch her.
The unnamed woman was wearing jean shorts and a “tight” shirt and had been standing outdoors for about 30 minutes.
After she had a conversation with a “passing man,” an officer searched her bag, where he found a condom and 1.25 dollars and arrested her, according to the publication.
While condoms themselves are not illegal, police in many cities are allegedly using them as the basis for evidence of prostitution and arrest, a trend that public health experts say is happening more often as police continue to crack down on the time-old trade.
Nearly half the participants in the study who were involved in the sex trade said they had not carried condoms “out of fear that it may get them in trouble with the police or lead to their arrest,” PROS sociologists wrote.
“For all too many people in the sex trade, the importance of safe sex is outweighed by the importance of avoiding police harassment, humiliation, sexual and physical abuse, and arrest, as well as the potential indirect consequences of arrest,” the study stated.
New York City itself hands out more than 30 million condoms each year at clinics, health fairs and other centers through the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. But the distribution is nothing short of ironic, given that some key communities are now afraid to carry them.
A New York sex worker told Human Rights Watch as part of the group’s 2012 study “Sex Workers at Risk” that she can only carry one condom because police catch her.
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Re: NYC sex workers avoiding condoms due to fear of getting caught for prostitution
by Uppili Sat Mar 09, 2013 6:41 pm
Rishi wrote:http://www.dnaindia.com/health/report_nyc-sex-workers-avoiding-condoms-due-to-fear-of-getting-caught-for-prostitution_1808036
A New York sex worker told Human Rights Watch as part of the group’s 2012 study “Sex Workers at Risk” that she can only carry one condom because police catch her.
Once I saw an "Environment Investigator" (garbage disposal Supervisor) give a ticket to a home owner for placing a Garbage can 3 feet into the road.
So now we have Condom Police in NYC.
Besh Besh.
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