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Kōrero: Sexual health

Safer sex and prostitution

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Safer sex and prostitution

This Ministry of Health advertisement shows another radical shift in attitudes toward sex and sexually transmitted diseases. Historically, prostitutes have been held responsible for spreading disease. This advertisement, produced after prostitution was decriminalised, is directed instead at sex workers' clients, reminding them that safer sex is a legal requirement of the Prostitution Reform Act 2003.

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Jane Tolerton, Sexual health – Community responses, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/27228/safer-sex-and-prostitution (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jane Tolerton, i tāngia i te 30 March 2011.