Story: Sex work

More links and websites

• NZPC

  The website of the New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective.

• Prostitution in New Zealand

  Information about prostitution in New Zealand, from Wikipedia.

• Prostitution Law Review Committee

  Report of the Prostitution Law Review Committee on the operation of the Prostitution Reform Act 2003.

• Prostitution Reform Act 2003

  The text of the Prostitution Reform Act 2003, on the New Zealand legislation website.

• Prostitution law reform in New Zealand

  A 2012 Parliamentary Library Research Paper by Paul Bellamy (PDF).

• The oldest profession?

  A 2016 Radio New Zealand Insight documentary on sex work in New Zealand.

More suggestions and sources

• Abel, Gillian. 'A decade of decriminalization: Sex work 'down under' but not underground.' Criminology & Criminal Justice Volume 14, issue 5 (2014): 580-592

• Abel, Gillian, Fitzgerald, Lisa and Brunton, Clare. The impact of the Prostitution Law Reform Act 2003 on the health and safety of sex workers. Dunedin: University of Otago, 2007.

• Abel, Gillian, Lisa Fitzgerald and Catherine Healy, eds. Taking the crime out of sex work: New Zealand sex workers' fight for decriminalisation. Bristol, England: Policy Press, 2010.

• Armstrong, Lynzi. 'Decriminalisation and the rights of migrant sex workers in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Making a case for change.' Women's Studies Journal Volume 31, no. 3 (2017): 69-76.

• Eldred-Grigg, Stevan. Diggers, hatters & whores: the story of the New Zealand gold rushes. Auckland: Random House, 2008.

• Jordan, Jan. Working girls: women in the New Zealand sex industry talk to Jan Jordan. Auckland: Penguin, 1991.

• Macdonald, Charlotte. 'The "social evil": prostitution and the passage of the Contagious Diseases Act (1869).’ In Women in history: essays on European women in New Zealand, edited by Barbara Brookes, Charlotte Macdonald and Margaret Tennant. Wellington: Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson Press, 1986: 13–34.