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Readers Respond: Sex Work and Trafficking

the women, that women have other available jobs that will pay a living wage, that drug treatment is available, that the rape, disappearance, or murder of a prostitute is taken seriously as a crime, and that there are agencies to help women leave the sex trade. Making a distinction between trafficking and prostitution is fine, but it misses the point. When sex workers call up trying to figure out if what they are doing is illegal, the correct answer is "Yes. You are breaking the law." The response we should be giving is to help people get out of that line of work. Stop enabling the men who hurt and exploit women. Stop pretending that there is more nuance and more of a moral gradience on this issue than actually exists. Stop supplying flesh-for-rent. Stop privatizing this problem, as if the law was sort of optional or arbitrary and not a real law. --Sasha McLean

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