Alex Nelson, PhD

Anthropologist of love & intimacy in South Korea and the entrepreneurial business strategies of online sex workers. Co-Chair of CRN6: Sex, Work, Law & Society

[Alex Nelson, PhD @alexjnelson]

My students and I are available to assist and train sex worker-led organizations in data analysis and research design and will be using this account to engage with sex work communities and occasionally research dissemination and recruitment. Lab Site: https://t.co/BJLjrWefdS

[Alex Nelson, PhD @alexjnelson]

I am excited to share our new publication examining variations in occupational health risks among independent sex workers in the U.S. by earnings. https://t.co/ioUSwf5lCf

[Alex Nelson, PhD @alexjnelson]

Our book, Love Apocalypse: New Intimacies and the Decline of Marriage and Fertility, is now published! It includes ethnographic case studies of the transformation of intimacy in South Korea, China, Japan, Cuba, Peru, India, Germany, & Lithuania. https://t.co/lmg1PtATR1

[Alex Nelson, PhD @alexjnelson]

Atlanta Journal Constitution: Manhattan DA ending prosecution of prostitution, unlicensed massage.
https://t.co/53ekX595Bk

via @GoogleNews

[SFSWR @SFSWR1]

Policies intended to affect anyone selling sex, whether by choice, circumstance, or coercion, need to be based on science. @POTUS @VP #ScientistsForSWerRights #DataNotDiscrimination #Decriminalize #SWerRightsDay

[barb brents @barbbrents]

Research says #decriminalize #sexwork. Time to rethink the policies @POTUS @VP @CortezMasto4NV @RepHorsford @repdinatitus @SenJackyRosen https://t.co/0FQre7nBfk

[SFSWR @SFSWR1]

Research shows criminalization harms. #CriminalJusticeReform includes rethinking #sexwork policy. @Potus @vp @SenWarren @RepRoKhanna https://t.co/ogiZ02y4kG

[SFSWR @SFSWR1]

Science. Check it out. Health Outcomes Associated with Criminalization and Regulation of Sex Trade https://t.co/ICw6RUz6D0 # via @ca_hivpolicy_rc

[SFSWR @SFSWR1]

Science supports the #NY #Senate #decrmin #bill, and so should @NYGovCuomo @JuliaCarmel__ @SalazarSenate @nytimes @NYDailyNews @nypost @amNewYork @NY1 @NBCNewYork @NewYorker @News12 @WBAI https://t.co/nh8tcvZ8ca

[Angela Jones @drjonessoc]

“Science-Based Policy Means Decriminalizing Sex Work, Say Hundreds of Researchers” #ISWRD #decrim #sexwork #ScientistsForSexWorkerRights https://t.co/mk5YaWTENk

[Angela Jones @drjonessoc]

#InternationalSexWorkerRightsDay #Decrim #SexWork #RepealFOSTA #SFSWR

[e taylor @erinisaway]

happy international sex workers rights day! it’s always a good day to remember it’s a global and ongoing movement to decriminalize sex work, to provide mutual aid/resources to sex working communities, and to end stigma towards those in the sex industry.

[kate hausbeck korgan, ph.d. (she/her) @hausbeck_korgan]

Stay tuned for more from Scientists for Sex Worker Rights dropping on Wednesday, March 3rd, International Sex Worker Rights Day...

[Erotic Entrepreneurs @EroticEntreProj]

March 3rd is International Sex Worker Rights Day. Stay tuned for the launch of a new campaign for evidence-based sex work policy. @SFSWR1

[Alex Nelson, PhD @alexjnelson]

A short and accessible summary of our ethnological finding on love across cultures. The conclusion is that arranged and self-arranged marriages have a great deal in common in practice, both balance pragmatic and emotional considerations. @loveresearchnet
https://t.co/lMxaklznkI

[Alex Nelson, PhD @alexjnelson]

U.S. News & World Report: The Case for Decriminalizing Sex Work.
https://t.co/WQhgEocwCG

via @GoogleNews

[Laura Agustín @LauraAgustin]

Sexwork-history trivia NYC: Corlears Hook's 1st tenement built 1833, as more new Americans poured in so too the bars and brothels. Colloquially called “the Hook”, a notorious slum where prostitution reigned. It’s believed the word “hooker” is derived from this sordid connection.'

[Alex Nelson, PhD @alexjnelson]

Our brief summary of how sex workers have been responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and how government public health measures and aid-programs have variously affected sex workers is now published in Exertions by the Society for the Anthropology of Work https://t.co/8m0Iacpk1W

[Sex Work in Canada & Beyond @CanadianSexPro]

Shutting down India’s red-light districts won’t contain coronavirus https://t.co/Pw0CQgK4Kw

[Alex Nelson, PhD @alexjnelson]

@drjonessoc Mireille Miller-Young's A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography
The best account I have read of the studio porn industry and an important contribution to the growing empirical evidence of racial inequality in the sex industry.
https://t.co/ttW36Gti7M