Sixty-five percent of sex workers surveyed both before and after the law change responded that it was easier now to refuse a client.
Unintended pregnancy contributes to economic difficulties and an inability to exit sex work and refuse a client unwilling to have protected sex [ 23, 55].
This identification is characterized by increased self-confidence, individual agency (e.g., I can refuse a client when tired), and self-efficacy.
"The problem of legitimizing the sex trade as work, the way it's done in Germany, for example, is that 'work' has consequences, one being that you are required to do just that — work — and if you refuse to accept a client, or to do something a client wants, you can be fired, or worse".
"The problem of legitimizing the sex trade as work, the way it's done in Germany, for example, is that 'work' has consequences, one being that you are required to do just that work and if you refuse to accept a client, or to do something a client wants, you can be fired, or worse".
If they don't think they will find another job at the end of a journey, they might insist on a fixed off-meter fare or simply refuse to take a client.
Assessing a caller's voice against their listed gender is a standard procedure, she said, but should not on its own be enough to refuse service to a client: in her opinion the operator who had locked Enok Ripley's account would have been deviating from protocol, since correct responses to further security questions should have been enough to cancel out the initial suspicion.
Always remember that you have the right to refuse service if a client pushes your boundaries too far.
Now, 27 years later, Raimi has returned to the genre and made another stab at low-budget horror with Drag Me to Hell, a story of a female bank clerk (Alison Lohman) who is put under a curse when she refuses a loan to a desperate client.
The proportion of male sex workers refusing to have anal sex because a client refused to use a condom rose from 45% to 72%.
They also reported refusing to have sex more often if a client refused to use a condom, than if a main partner refused (Table 1).
