In various parts of the world, including South Africa, sex work is highly stigmatised and the buying and selling of sex is illegal. As such sex workers are profoundly marginalised, and as a by-product of criminalisation, ...

In South Africa and many other countries worldwide, sex work is criminalised. This invariably seems to lead to back-door prostitution - an unregulated industry where sex workers are vulnerable to being exploited by pimps, ...