Question: Is MODE or $pread made for sex workers?
Context: Prostitution in Switzerland is legal and regulated; it has been legal since 1942.  Trafficking, forcing people into prostitution and most forms of pimping are illegal.  Licensed brothels, typically with a reception and leading to several studio apartments, are available.  Street prostitution is illegal, except in specially designated areas in the major cities.  Many workers operate using newspaper advertisements, mobile phones and secondary rented apartments.  It is legal to advertise for "massages" in Swiss tabloid newspapers.  Swiss sex workers pay VAT (value added tax) on their services and some accept credit cards.  The majority of sex workers are foreigners from the Americas, Central Europe or the Far East.  In recent years the number of full service sex workers has increased.  In Zurich, foreigners from the European Union can obtain permission to work for 90 days as a prostitute if they present themselves to the city authorities, undergo a police interview, and provide proof of a health insurance plan.  One estimate puts the number of street sex workers in Zurich at 5000. International Sex Workers Day, or International Whores' Day, on June 2 of each year, honours sex workers and recognises their often exploited working conditions.  The event commemorates the occupation of Église Saint-Nizier in Lyon by more than a hundred sex workers on 2 June 1975 to draw attention to their inhumane working conditions.  It has been celebrated annually since 1976.  In German, it is known as "Hurentag" (Whore's Day).  In Spanish-speaking countries, it is the "Día Internacional de la Trabajadora Sexual", the International Day of the Sex Worker.  (The Spanish word "trabajadora" is feminine, recognizing that most sex workers are women.) Robyn Few was born on Oct 7, 1958, in Paducah, Kentucky, and died Sept 13, 2012, after a long struggle with cancer.  She was an American sex worker rights activist who worked for the decriminalization of prostitution, against violence targeted at sex workers, and generally, for the improvement of sex workers' working conditions.  A former prostitute, she founded and directed the Sex Workers Outreach Project USA (SWOP-USA), and helped organize the annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. MODE (stylized MO"D"E) was a fashion magazine aimed towards plus-size women which launched in the spring of 1997.  The magazine was praised for targeting the plus-size consumer with a "Vogue"-like fashion philosophy.  "MODE" also helped to increase the growth of the plus-size industry and the caliber of plus-size clothing and advertising.  In 1997, "MODE" was named the best new magazine launch by Ad Week and Advertising Age.  "MODE" also ran model search competitions in conjunction with the Wilhelmina modeling agency, drawing entries from thousands of hopefuls from the US and Canada.  Its circulation was approximately 600,000 at the time of its demise in October 2001. Daulatdia is the name of a village in Rajbari District, Bangladesh which is the largest brothel in Bangladesh, and has been called one of the largest brothels in the world.  It is one of 20 officially sanctioned brothels in the country opening around 1988, although it was unofficially in existence for decades prior.  Estimates of the number of sex workers in the village range from 1,300 to 2,000.  Daulatdia services more than 3,000 men daily; these men can pay for sex, take drugs and gamble.  Though prostitution is only legal in Bangladesh for women aged 18 or older, the average age of newly arriving sex workers is 14, and some sex workers in Daulatdia are as young as 10.  Many of them are sold into sex work for about $250, which they are then obligated to pay to pimps who are mostly older women, known as "madams".  The sex workers are often tricked by their madams into taking drugs such as Ventolin or Oradexon, which are designed to fatten cattle. Kamathipura (also spelled Kamthipuram) is a neighbourhood in Mumbai, India.  It was first settled after 1795 with the construction of causeways that connected the erstwhile seven islands of Bombay.  Initially known as Lal Bazaar, it got its name from the "Kamathis" (workers) of other areas of the country, who were labourers on construction sites.  Due to tough police crackdown, in the late 1990s with the rise of AIDS and government's redevelopment policy that helped sex workers to move out of the profession and subsequently out of Kamathipura, the number of sex workers in the area has dwindled.  In 1992, Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) recorded there were 50,000 sex workers here which was reduced to 1,600 in 2009, with many sex workers migrating to other areas in Maharashtra and real estate developers taking over the high-priced real estate. $pread was a quarterly magazine by and for sex workers and those who support their rights.  The magazine's focus was: "personal experiences and political insights" and it "contain(ed) practical information like news, features, health columns, and resources related to the sex industry." A transgender sex worker is a transgender person who works in the sex industry or performs sexual services in exchange for money or other forms of payment.  The term transgender refers to a diverse population whose gender identity or expression differs from their assigned sex at birth.  Transgender women are defined as natal males with female identification or expression and transgender men are natal females with male identification or expression.  In general, sex workers appear to be at great risk for serious health problems related to their profession, such as physical and sexual assault, robbery, murder, physical and mental health problems, and drug and alcohol addiction.  Though all sex workers are at risk for the problems listed, some studies suggest that sex workers who work on the street have a higher risk for experiencing these issues.  Transgender sex workers experience high degrees of discrimination both in and outside of the sex industry and face higher rates of contracting HIV and experiencing violence as a result of their work. The Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (Bengali: দুর্বার মহিলা সমন্বয় সমিতি "Durbar Mohila Shômonbôe Shomiti" "Unstoppable Women's Synthesis Committee") or Durbar, is a collective of 65,000 sex workers in West Bengal.  Established on 15 February 1992, in Sonagachi, the largest red-light district in Kolkata, West Bengal, India with estimated 11,000 sex workers, Durbar has been working on women's rights and sex workers' rights advocacy, anti-human trafficking and HIV/AIDS prevention.  The Durbar states that its aims are the challenging and altering of the barriers that form the everyday reality of sex workers' lives as they relate to their poverty or their ostracism.  Durbar runs 51 free clinics for sex workers across West Bengal, with support from organisations such as the Ford Foundation and the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), who also help Durbar in its initiatives like networking, rights protection and creating alternative livelihood for sex workers. Police are often a significant source of abuse for sex workers, particularly poor sex workers.  Greater exposure to the police often means more experience of police abuse; one study found that sex workers with greater police oversight were more likely to be obliged to provide free sexual services to the police than sex workers with less police oversight.  For some groups of sex workers in some locations in the U.S., police are the primary source of violence.  Police may be the most abusive towards sex workers who have experienced the most victimization from other sources; a study found that sex workers who had been manipulated, coerced, or forced into sex work were more likely to suffer police abuse than sex workers who chose to enter sex work.
Answer: $pread