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Crime, Justice and the Sex Industry module sources
I would like to thank Professor Maggie O’Neill and Dr Alison Jobe for the inspiration and all those at the original Sex Work Research Hub who helped me to design this module. I would also like to thank the students who register on this module and learn alongside me.
I use a trauma-informed pedagogy explored here in Times Higher Education.
I previously blogged in detail about my module here.
You can read about my positionality as former dancer here.
In this post I will list some of the additional sources I provide students weekly in the reading and visual folders. On my module I also provide a detailed reading list and module guide. I also tweet additional sources #SOCI349.
I also have listed hundreds of sex work sources here on a pinnedblog post.
Week One Introduction and History of Sex Work
The Oldest Profession in the World
The 1975 French sex workers’ revolt: A narrative of influence
Introduction- prostitution in 20th century Europe
First they came for the sex workers
Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts-Dr Kate Lister video
“For Their Own Good?”: Sex work, social control and social workers, a historical perspective
The Weight of Words: Discourse, Power and the 19th Century Prostitute
Understanding Sex Work in an Open Society
Troubling Terms and the Sex Industry
There is no neutral position on whether sex work is work
Why we need a history of prostitution in the Holocaust
Walking, Talking, Imagining: Ethical Engagement with Sex Workers
Centering Sex Workers’ Voices in Law and Social Policy
Week Two: Prostitution and the Law UK
Independent Review of the Managed Approach in Holbeck
The Laws that Sex Workers Want- video
Punishment & Protection: The Paradox of Sex Work in Scotland podcast
Sex, Relationships and the Court of Protection Webinar- DG Legal
Sex Workers Speak Out About Labour MP
Sex Workers and the Law Release Charity
Sex Work Buyer Law- Sex Work Research Hub
Why Decriminalise Prostitution? Because Law and Justice Aren’t Always the Same
How the Sandy’s Superstars court case has put Manchester’s brothels in the spotlight
Section 14 Policing and Crime Act- Kingston and Thomas
How the Nordic Model in France Changed Everything for Sex Workers
Liberal Feminism has a sex work problem
The difference between decriminalisation and legalisation of sex work
A critical account of a ‘creeping neo-abolitionism’: Regulating prostitution in England and Wales
What’s Law Got To Do With it? How and Why Law Matters in the Regulation of Sex Work
Basis statement on the Managed Approach June 2021
Independent Review of the Managed Approach
Scrapping Britain’s First Red Light District Will Be a Disaster for Sex Workers
Jailing of Migrant Sex Workers in Ireland Unjust
Assessment of impact criminalisation of purchasing sexual services
How Sex Workers Understand Their Experiences of Working in the Republic of Ireland
Criminal justice, extreme pornography and prostitution: Protecting women or promoting morality?
Mainstreaming the Sex Industry: Economic Inclusion and Social Ambivalence
Sex Workers’ Rights are About More than ‘Happy Hookers’
Coordinated Prostitution Strategy
English Collective of Prostitutes- Submissions and Policy Briefings
Why Sex Work Should Be Decriminalized
A decade of decriminalization: Sex work ‘down under’ but not underground
British Medical Journal- Decrim
The nature and prevalence of prostitution and sex work in England and Wales today
Precarious or Protected? Evaluating Work Quality in the Legal Sex Industry
Victims Without a Choice? A Critical View on the Debate About Sex Work in Northern Ireland
From brothels to independence: the neoliberalisation of (sex) work
Northern Ireland: 98% of sex workers oppose new law criminalising clients
Sex work today: myths, morals and health (UCL lunchtime lecture)
What is a ‘representative’ sex worker?
Enduring the myths of the Nordic Model
Campaigners for sex work face bullying and bad data
Ethical sluts and “dirty whores”: Straight talk about sex work
Male Sex Work: Exploring Regulation in England and Wales
Why Prostitution Policy (Usually) Fails and What to Do about It?
The Sociology Show-Gemma Ahearne
5 arguments against the Nordic Model
Sex Work is Real Work, and it’s Time to Treat it That Way
‘Framing figures’ and the campaign for sex purchase criminalisation in Ireland: A Lakoffian analysis
Payment by Alternative Means-Sex For Rent
Andrews government looks to decriminalise sex work
The false feminism of criminalising sex workers’ clients
The Human Rights Violations behind ‘End Demand’ laws
Safety, Dignity, Equality: Recommendations for Sex Work Law Reform in Canada
Reading Sex Work- South Atlantic Quarterly
How Sex Workers Understand Their Experiences of Working in the Republic of Ireland
Everything you want to know about the Swedish model
Criminalization, protection and rights: Global tensions in the governance of commercial sex
The politics of injustice: Sex-working women, feminism and criminalizing sex purchase in Ireland
Sex Work Charity Scotland on the Cost of Living Crosis
Appeal court overturns controversial sex worker ruling
Is it lawful for C’s carers to support him in accessing a sex worker?
Week 3: Stripping
Between the Sex Industry and Academia: Navigating Stigma and Disgust
The Fight For Strip Clubs- Dancers Versus Campaigners-video
Dita Von Teese podcast from 11 minutes onwards on the changing conditions in strip clubs
Sex workers condemn the ‘feminists’ secretly filming strippers in clubs
A Black Women’s History of Pinup and Burlesque
Stripper Influencers Reveal the Secrets Behind the Job
Glasgow’s lap dancing clubs will remain open following council vote
‘Wrong Place for Venue’ in Liverpool city centre
Megan Barton-Hanson defends sex workers as she dresses as Pretty Woman character
Implications That Come With Being A Stripper – The truth by dancer Ginger Zephyr
Ginger Zephyr Stripper Vlog- Depicts the difficult interactions in stripping
Can strippers also be feminists? Good Morning Britain video
‘Yes you can be a stripper and feminist’ Jac Q video
Chantelle Marquez Stripper Diaries Youtube
East London Strippers’ Collective vid
The Ethical Stripper Stacey Clare Ted X talk
Tiffany B- Day in the Life of a Stripper USA
Strip Club Tour USA Cristina Villegas video
The Naked Truth documentary USA
ESRC study-The Regulatory Dance Video
Students Who Strip: The Benefits of Alternate Identities for Managing Stigma
Managing the Toll of Stripping: Boundary Setting among Exotic Dancers
“I’ll Be Your Fantasy Girl If You’ll Be My Money Man”
Thinking Critically about Strip Club Research
They’ve Started to Get a Bit Fucking Cocky
Sheffield strip club keeps licence despite opposition by feminist coalition
Review of The Ethical Stripper Book
Strippers Are Upset about new Netflix Pole-dancing Documentary
Exotic Dance Literature Overview
Dancing for women: Subverting heteronormativity in a lesbian erotic dance space?
Strippers paying thousands in fines being unable to perform-New Zealand
Week 4: Guided Walk of Sexual Entertainment Venues
Sex Work and Critical Campaigners
Sex establishment licence Liverpool city council
Edinburgh strip clubs to stay open as council’s proposed ban ruled as ‘unlawful’
Edinburgh strip clubs: Ban overturned after judicial review
Edinburgh strip club ban: Club owners and lap dancers win court battle to overturn ‘ban’
Bristol lapdancers celebrate council vote to keep clubs open
Bristol strip club ban consultation shows most people do not want venues to shut
Live-Bristol Strip Club ban decision made
Stripper and author Stacey Clare supports Bristol sex workers as club ban decision looms
Strip clubs saved as Bristol city councillors reject proposed ban
Profitable Exploits: Lap Dancing in the UK
Lilith Report Eaves- Inappropriate Behaviour: Adult venues and licensing in London
Glasgow councillors will vote on the future of lap dancing clubs
Dancers win at work: unionization and Nowak v Chandler Bars Group Ltd
Blackpool bans lap dancing clubs in drive to boost reputation
Bristol strip clubs to stay open despite proposed ban
Berlin Strippers Collective are on a mission to destigmatise sex work
Ex-stripper drops ET claim after being refused right to anonymity
The political economy of ‘lap dancing’: contested careers and women’s work in the stripping industry
Working in the Fantasy Factory
The production of Identity and the Negotiation of Intimacy in a ‘Gentleman’s Club’
Exotic Dancers Experiences with Occupational Violence in Portland, Oregon Strip Clubs
Challenging Perceptions of the Sex industry-video
License to cause harm? Sex entertainment venues and women’s sense of safety in inner city centres
Immoral geographies and Soho’s sex shops: exploring spaces of sexual diversity in London
Plastic fantastic? Problematising post-feminism in erotic retailing in England
Week 5: Stigma and Violence
Institutional Ethics Challenges to Sex Work Researchers: Committees, Communities, and Collaboration
Addressing Violence Against Sex Workers Scotland
Criminologist or criminal? Liminal spaces as the site for auto/biography
Sex Workers Too: Summary of Evidence for VAWG 2020-24 Consultation
Merseyside Hate Crime Model-video
Not Getting Away With It: addressing violence against sex workers as hate crime in Merseyside
The Stigma of Sex Work Comes at a High Cost
The impact of Covid-19 on sex workers
Stigma, invisibility and unattainable ‘choices’ in sex work
Out in the cold: Sex workers brace for second coronavirus lockdown
Stigma of Being a Former stripper in Academia
‘Whorephobia’ blocking research into student sex work – scholar
Why is offering support to student sex workers seen as radical?
Sex in the shadows of celebrity-Porn Studies Journal
Sex workers are the experts on their profession – they must be heard in debates about its future
Waking Up and Surviving Everyday: Reflections from NUM Outreach Worker Grace
Becoming a sexademic: Reflections on a ‘dirty’ research project
Managing spoiled identities: dirty workers’ struggles for a favourable sense of self
The encoded stigma- Ph.D thesis
Stigma, decriminalisation, and violence against street-based sex workers: Changing the narrative
Stigma of Sex Workers in prison
They Only Care When There’s a Murder On
Is sex work still the most dangerous profession? The data suggests so
“We Shouldn’t Have to Put up with This” Street Sex Work and Violence
Epistemic injustice and epistemic positioning: towards an intersectional policitcal economy
COVID-19 illuminates discriminatory sex work policies
Students, sex work and negotiations of stigma in the UK and Australia
Victoria’s sex worker rules ‘enshrines whorephobia’, workers say
https://www.swrh.co.uk/blog/student-sex-work-toolkit-for-staff-in-higher-education
Let’s Call Sex Work What It Is: Work
Demonizing sex worker harms sex workers
International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
Surviving Sex Work on the Streets
Students selling sex: marketisation, higher education and consumption
Institutional Ethics Challenges to Sex Work Researchers: Committees, Communities, and Collaboration
London sex workers ‘fear dangerous city’
The Impacts of Working With Victims of Sexual Violence: A Rapid Evidence Assessment
Beyond ‘revenge porn’: the continuum of image-based abuse
Young Women’s Experiences With Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence From Male Strangers
Dr Fiona Vera-Gray – Men’s Violence against Women, Street Harassment, and Pornography-podcast
Harm Imbrication and Virtualised Violence: Reconceptualising the Harms of Doxxing
Sexual Violence in the Digital Age: Replicating and Augmenting Harm, Victimhood and Blame
Black Femicide and Intimate Partner Violence: A History-video
Week 6: Trafficking and Migrant Sex Work
The ‘Rescue Industry’ : the blurred line between help and hindrance
Potential trafficking victims denied financial help in the UK
Home Office reinstates financial support of less than £4 a day for trafficking victims
MIgrant sex workers and Project ROSE-video
The High Cost of Cheap Clothes, Sex Workers in Cambodia-video
Stop the Traffik video (to critique!)
Framing Modern Slavery: Public Relations vs Reality with Emily Kenway
Huge rise in number of trafficking victims in UK immigration detention
My Experience is Mine to Tell: Challenging the abolitionist victimhood framework
Anti-Trafficking Review special issue on Traffickers- Sep 2022
Good Tech, Bad Tech: Policing Sex Trafficking with Big Data
Revealed: Just 7 percent of trafficking victims given leave to remain in UK
Interview – Sharmila Parmanand on sex trafficking
‘Conflating Sex Work And Trafficking Is Harmful. We Need To Stop’
‘It has completely destroyed me’: A legal advice system on the brink
Time to get off the fence on sex workers’ rights | openDemocracy Live
‘Reflexivities of discomfort’: Researching the sex trade and sex trafficking in Ireland
Troubling Recognitions in British Responses to Modern Slavery
Anti-slavery as development: A global politics of rescue
Debt, trafficking and safe migration: The brokered mobility of Vietnamese sex workers to Singapore
Resisting division: migrant sex work and “New Zealand working girls”
Migration, Sex Work and Trafficking: the Racialized Bordering Politics of Sexual Humanitarianism
Migrant sex workers fight brutality and racism-video
Columbia Human Rights Law Review
Missed opportunities and exclusion: sex workers reflect on two decades of anti-trafficking
Will The Real Sex Slave Please Stand Up?
Inside a Massive Anti-Trafficking Charity’s Blundering Overseas Missions
Are London’s Brothel Raids Really About Saving Sex Workers?
Anti-trafficking is an inside job
The Sexual Politics of Anti-Trafficking Discourse
Long read: How the Nordic model in France changed everything for sex workers
Soho police raids show why sex workers live in fear of being ‘rescued’
Only a minority of UK sex workers have been trafficked
After the Closure of Backpage, Increasingly Vulnerable Sex Workers Are Demanding Their Rights
Hit and Run Report from Empower thailand
Transgender Sex Workers in New York
The ‘Nordic model’ of prostitution law is a myth
FOSTA-SESTA was supposed to thwart sex trafficking. Instead, it’s sparked a movement
CAMBODIAN SEX WORKER: “WE DESERVE A LIFE OF DIGNITY”
Project ROSE Is Arresting Sex Workers in Arizona to Save Their Souls
We speak but you don’t listen: migrant sex worker organising at the border
Operation Underground Railroad’s Carefully Crafted Public Image Is Falling Apart
Fantasies of tattooed trafficking victims obscure the real problem
Closure of Soho brothels raises risks for women, says local priest
How Canada’s Immigration Laws Make Migrant Sex Workers’ Jobs More Dangerous
The Swedish Sex Purchase Act: Where Does it Stand?1
Miscounting human trafficking and slavery
Gender, Migration, ‘Trafficking’ and the Troublesome Relationship between Agency and Force
The Price of Freedom:Moral and Political Economies of the Global Anti-Trafficking Movement
Choice on offer in brothels not consistent with sex trafficking
Red mist obscures red light statistics
The American Rescue Industry: Toward an Anti-Trafficking Paramilitary
A Brief Guide on Collateral Damages of Anti-Trafficking Laws and Measures on Sex Workers
Tackling Trafficking under a Decriminalisation Model
Undeserving Victims? A Community report on Migrant Sex Worker Victims in Europe
From Vulnerability to Resilience: sex workers organizing to end exploitation
Migration Struggles, Colonial Legacies, and Pandemic Shifts
Criminalising sex workers’ clients makes trafficking worse
Fence-sitting and its discontents: the fear of taking a stand on sex work in the US
Resisting division: migrant sex work and “New Zealand working girls”
Jess Miers law slides on Section 230 and SESTA/FOSTA
***Trigger warning***Women who overstayed her welcome her 7 years fell to her death***
Unseen, unheard: Gender-based violence in disasters Global study
Fear of Trafficking or Implicit Prejudice? Migrant Sex Workers and the Impacts of Section 19
Exploitation Creep and the Unmaking of Human Trafficking Law
The Limits of Consent: Sex Trafficking and the Problem of International Paternalism
Week 7: Independent Reading Week
I have a range of extra sex work resources here.
Week 8: Contested Spaces of Sex Work
Bothered by a brothel? How sex work can improve your neighbourhood
Dr Emily Cooper-Sex work in the community Ted X talk
Living with the Other: Street sex work, contingent communities and degrees of tolerance
Consuming Sex: Socio-legal Shifts in the Space and Place of Sex Shops
Argentina’s prostitutes – mothers first, sex workers second
The Reduction of Visible Spaces of Sex Work in Europe
Amsterdam to move sex workers out of city centre in tourism ‘reset’
Gentrification Is Turning London’s Soho Into a Gimmicky, Sex Work-Themed Theme Park
Law, sex and the city: regulating sexual entertainment venues in England and Wales
Opposing striptopia: The embattled spaces of adult entertainment
Plans passed to open strip club near nursery in Reading
Sex Workers’ Anger at Hull Clampdown
Liivng and Working in areas of Street Sex Work
A Collection of Articles in Street-Based Sex Work
Week 9: Beyond the Gaze
Covid: Offline sex workers forced to start online again
Dr Angela Jones podcast on her book Camming: Money, Power and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry
Sexual Gentrification: An Internet Sex Workers Built-video
Sexworker Speaks Against Occupational Discrimination & Censorship from Mastercard #AcceptanceMatters
Sex Work in a Digital Era- Professor Angela Jones
Dr Carolina Are podcast on the impact of shadowbanning
The Shadowban Cycle: an autoethnography of pole dancing, nudity and censorship on Instagram
What can tech learn from sex workers? Sexual Ethics, Tech Design & Decoding Stigma
OnlyFans as gig-economy work: a nexus of precarity and stigma
Sarah Jayne Dunn podcast on Only Fans
Hollyoaks’ Sarah Jayne Dunn breaks silence after she’s axed from soap in OnlyFans row
Dr Heather Berg podcast- Porn, Labour and Late Capitalism
Credit Card Companies Investigate While Sex Workers’ Livelihoods Still Hang in The Balance
Regulating and representing camming: Strict limits on acceptable content on webcam sex platforms
How Instagram’s algorithm is censoring women and vulnerable users but helping online abusers
Posting into the void- studying the impact of shadow banning on sex workers and activists
Hustling the Platform: Capitalist Experiments and Resistance Capitalist Experiments and Resistance
Beyond the Gaze Summary Report
Online sex work in the 21st century-video
ITV news Only Fans- Shelly Stoops and Professor Sarah Kingston video
Dr Anastacia Ryan discusses Only Fans podcast
Vienna museums open adult-only OnlyFans account to display nudes
How Has the Internet Changed the Market for Sex
Safe For Work: Feminist Porn, Corporate Regulation and Community Standards
“Disadvantaged in the American-dominated Internet”: Sex, Work, and Technology
What can tech learn from sex workers?
OnlyFans is banning porn, the very thing that made it big
Webcam modelling in Korea: censorship, pornography, and eroticism
Online Sex Directory: An Examination
The New War on Porn: How Moral Crusaders, Mainstream Media and Politicians Are Gunning for XXX
The anti-porn religious lobby just destroyed the livelihoods of thousands of pornographers
How Instagram Punishes Sex Workers While Profiting Off Porn
Platforms, sex work and their interconnectedness
If sex workers can’t advertise online, it forces them on to the street
‘War Against Sex Workers:’ What Visa and Mastercard Dropping Pornhub Means to Performers
Online censorship is making sex work more dangerous
Enough about SESTA/FOSTA ‘unintended consequences’
Mapping the Online Sex Industry
Under the threat of new laws, British sex workers fear for their websites and their safety
Strippers in the UK Are Hosting a Virtual Strip Club
Making Money on OnlyFans Is a Lot Harder Than You Think
An OnlyFans Leak Isn’t Anything New
Inside the Underground Trade of Pirated OnlyFans Porn
OnlyFans, Influencers, And The Politics Of Selling Nudes During A Pandemic
Sex Workers Built Only Fans- Now They say They Are Getting Kicked Off
Pornhub crackdown by credit card companies cuts off sex workers’ livelihoods
Why is Instagram deleting the accounts of hundreds of porn stars?
Extreme Concern: Regulating ‘Dangerous Pictures’ in the United Kingdom
‘Pleasure and Tedium’: What Porn Reveals About the Future of Work
Sex and consent in contemporary youth sexual culture: the ‘ideals’ and the ‘realities’
‘I Work In The NHS By Day And I’m A Cam Girl By Night’
Inside the life of Isa Mazzei, a camgirl making $15,500 a month
OnlyFans isn’t revolutionising sex work, and using it ruined things I once did for personal pleasure
Sex Workers Deserve Better Than Only Fans
Google is kicking ‘sugar dating’ apps out of the Play Store
Adult content creators in the lurch as OnlyFans bans porn
‘Girls Do Porn’ Victims Reach Settlement With Pornhub
Week 10: Media Portrayals of Sex Work
Fifty Shades and the law: Regulating sex and sex media in the UK
Girls Next Level podcast (Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt from E’s Girls Next Door)
Sex Work and The Girls Next Door with Ginger Zephyr podcast
FKA TWIGs and Kehlani start a crucial conversation about sex work
Holly Madison and the pressure to conform
Sex work, advertorial news media and conditional acceptance
Flogging sexual transgression: Interrogating the costs of the ‘Fifty Shades effect’
Media Coverage of Sex Workers Erases Our Voices
Bad Women: The Ripper Retold Podcast
Stigma and stereotypes about sex work hinder regulatory reform
Representations of Sex workers
Hot Girls Wanted: Exploiting Sex Workers in the Name of Exposing Porn Exploitation?
Week 11: Policing of Sex Work and the Global Sex Workers’ Rights Movement
They Only Care when There’s A Murder On
Why Report? Sex Workers who Use NUM Opt out of Sharing Victimisation with Police
Street sex workers face discriminatory behaviour from gardaí – report
Fake policeman who raped and robbed sex workers jailed
ECP-No Bad Women Just Bad laws-video
Decrim and fighting for a better future video
Listening to sex workers will improve safety and policies- Dr Raven Bowen podcast
Disibilitease- disability and stripping on stage documentary
Sex workers fighting for human rights among world’s most ‘at risk- video
The Mainstreaming of Sex Workers’ Rights as Human Rights
The Future of Feminism and Sex Work Activism in New Zealand
Cash/Consent- The War in Sex Work by Lorelei Lee
If you really care about the safety of sex workers like me, let us make our own choices
Policing vulnerability in sex work: the harm reduction compass model
Sex workers must not be forgotten in the Covid-19 response
We Speak to Muslim Sex Workers About How They’ve Survived the Pandemic… and Ramadan
Politics is the heart of all sex worker organising
Tunisia’s sex workers face moral crusade
Statement from SWEAT on gender-based violence on sex workers
National Policing Sex Work Guidance
Sex work activism in South Africa: a struggle for visibility
Identity diversification among transgender sex workers in Thailand’s sex tourism industry
“We are not criminals; We are people” A Ugandan sex worker tells her story
Fight against HIV empowering sex workers in India, says UN Aids envoy
‘Like any other job’: Indian sex workers lobby for pensions and healthcare
Organizations working on behalf of prostitutes: An analysis of goals, practices, and strategies
Representations of sex workers’ needs and aspirations: A case for arts-based research
Continuous Moral Economies: The State Regulation of Bodies and Sex Work in Cuba
Priorities for the minority? Street-based sex work and Partnerships and Communities Together (PACT)
Pussy power not pity porn: Embodied protest in the #FacesOfProstitution Twitter network
Why enforcement of sex work should be a last resort
Anti-Social Powers and the Regulation of Street Sex Work
The Local Governance of Street Sex Work in the United Kingdom: Views from the Shop Floor
Police-Prostitute Interactions
Sex Workers in Hackney Can’t Get Drug Support Unless They Have a Meeting with Police
Violence, dignity and HIV vulnerability: street sex work in Serbia
Listen to sex workers – you’ll realise we have a lot to say about labour rights
Here’s Why I Celebrate International Whores’ Day
‘Nothing for us without us’: sex workers the decision-makers in new fund
Some People Enjoy Being Prostitutes… Get Over It
The right’s bogus sex work stance: Taking power away from women
Global policy making suggestions
The Movement to Criminalize Sex Work in the United States
Will Victoria be next to decriminalise sex work
Labours in Vice or Virtue? Neo-liberalism, Sexual Commerce, and the Case of Indian Bar Dancing
Sex Work and the Politics of Space: Case Studies of Sex Workers in Argentina and Ecuador
New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective—An Example of a Successful Policy Actor
Pandemic sex workers’ resilience: COVID-19 crisis met with rapid responses by sex worker communities
Thailand- Sex workers mail high heels to government, continue to call for financial support
Surveillance does not equal safety: Police, data and consent on dating apps-Dr Zhara Stardust et al
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I’ve dipped in and out of this. Illuminating. Thanks
If you need access to anything just let me know and I can direct if you don’t have the same journal access
Thanks. Truth to tell it’s time I don’t have. I’m an academic at the end of my career with piles of unpublished data I am trying against the clock to write up. But this is so interesting, and important, affecting lives of very many people.
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