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September 05, 2019

Minneapolis Passes Sex Worker Protection Law After UM Research

Minneapolis last month passed a landmark city ordinance designed to protect the safety of adult entertainment workers in the city’s strip clubs, and unlike many laws at various levels of government that attempt to regulate sex work, the legislation is based on actual, factual data, as Minnesota Daily reports. Specifically, the researchers at the University of Minnesota Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center interviewed workers at 17 Minneapolis strip clubs, finding that the problems often perceived as common at adult establishments by the general public were of little concern to the women who performed in the clubs. Instead the adult entertainment workers expressed worries about issues likely also found in non-adult establishments as well.“When we did our surveys we didn’t get a lot of complaints from other things that you think might be going on in terms of prostitution, sex trafficking, drug dealings. That isn’t to say that they are not going on, but we weren’t getting any of the entertainers expressing any real concern regarding those topics,” researcher Cam Gordon said. Instead, the workers were concerned with “the lack of written contracts between the workers and the establishments they perform in,” as well as “wage theft in the form of fees and mandatory tipping of salaried staff such as managers and security.” The new ordinance, passed by the Minneapolis city council on August 23, requires strip club management “to give workers copies of their contracts, post rules for costumer [sic] conduct and workers' rights, and prohibit retaliation against workers who report violations,” The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. The new law also establishes safety and sanitary standards for strip clubs, requiring specific cleaning procedures, as well as “clearing tripping hazards,” and the placement of security cameras covering all areas in which the dancers interact directly with patrons."In the past, I don't know that the work that strippers, that adult entertainers, put into the city has been valued as work," Minneapolis City Council member Jeremiah Ellison told the Star Tribune. "I think that this changes that."Photo By Gogirl18 / Wikimedia Commons 

 
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