Dunedin’s model of having no bylaws for the sex work trade has proven a positive for those in the industry in the city compared to other councils, a researcher says.
PhD candidate Peyton Bond, from Virginia in the United States, became interested in New Zealand’s decriminalisation of sex work under the Prostitution Reform Act (PRA).
That model was similar to what other sex worker activists around the world were fighting for, but Bond noted that some councils in New Zealand differed in their approach.
‘'A lot of it is moralising,’’ she said.