Aotearoa New Zealand’s 2003 decriminalisation of sex work has reduced the exploitation of sex workers, as well as the health and safety risks in the industry. Nevertheless, United States-driven criminalising policies still influence sex workers abroad. The Fight Online Sex Trafficking and Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Acts (FOSTA-SESTA) effectively criminalised websites where sex workers advertise. Shortly before that, the FBI shut down the internationally used Backpage.com, leading many sex workers in both countries to return to the streets or brothels. These events contributed to the rising dominance of one advertising website. Drawing on twenty semi-structured interviews and four observation cases with sex workers in Auckland, in this paper, I explore the international consequences of FOSTA-SESTA and the closure of Backpage on my participants. I show that this punitive approach to segments of the online sex industry has not only placed sex workers in greater financial insecurity, but has reduced their ability to control their working conditions. These outcomes, I conclude, have undermined the positive impacts of decriminalisation, while exacerbating socioeconomic, racial, gender, and legal inequalities in Auckland’s sex industry.

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“我从未被如此剥削”：FOSTA-SESTA在新西兰奥特罗阿的后果

新西兰Aotearoa于2003年将性工作合法化，减少了对性工作者的剥削，并减少了该行业的健康和安全风险。然而，美国推动的将犯罪定罪的政策仍然影响着国外的性工作者。《打击网上性贩运和停止启用性贩运者法案》（FOSTA-SESTA）有效地将性工作者宣传网站定为犯罪。在此之前不久，联邦调查局关闭了国际上使用的Backpage.com，导致两国的许多性工作者回到街头或妓院。这些事件助长了一个广告网站的主导地位。本文利用奥克兰对性工作者的二十次半结构化访谈和四个观察案例，探讨了FOSTA-SESTA的国际后果以及Backpage对参与者的关闭。我表明，对在线性服务行业的这种惩罚性方法不仅使性工作者面临更大的财务不安全感，而且降低了他们控制工作条件的能力。我得出的结论是，这些结果破坏了非刑事化的积极影响，同时加剧了奥克兰性行业的社会经济，种族，性别和法律不平等现象。