Abstract:This article will explore the relationship between sex work and the law in four Southern African countries – Madagascar, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe – to shed light on the persistent barriers to promoting the rights and security of sex workers. In these countries, as across Southern Africa, criminal laws on sex work introduced by colonial powers have profoundly shaped contemporary societal attitudes towards sex work and women who sell sex. More recently, the question of sex work has often been linked to HI… Show more
“…Often this legislation is rather vague in definitions of prostitution, employs colonial language of “immorality” and links sex work to out-of-marriage sexual relationships. 28 In Zimbabwe for example, the legislation relating to sex work explicitly defines engagement in “extra-marital sex” for money or reward as conduct of a “prostitute” (Criminal Codification and Reform Act [Chapter 9:23]). ‡…”
Section: The Framing Of the Debate: Post-colonialism And Medicalisationmentioning
“…Often this legislation is rather vague in definitions of prostitution, employs colonial language of “immorality” and links sex work to out-of-marriage sexual relationships. 28 In Zimbabwe for example, the legislation relating to sex work explicitly defines engagement in “extra-marital sex” for money or reward as conduct of a “prostitute” (Criminal Codification and Reform Act [Chapter 9:23]). ‡…”
Section: The Framing Of the Debate: Post-colonialism And Medicalisationmentioning
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