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"In this talk, I'll take you through the four main legal approaches applied to
sex work throughout the world, and explain why they don't work; why prohibiting
the sex industry actually exacerbates every harm that sex workers are
vulnerable to. Then I'm going tell you about what we, as sex workers, actually
want."
Yes, very well put. Via Yonatan Zunger, who wrote:
This is a short, concise, and extremely clear talk on > decriminalization of
sex work. It's about the different legal > approaches different countries
use, and why many of them are a bad > idea. It's about why people want to
criminalize or eliminate sex > work, and what the consequences of that
actually are. And > ultimately, it's about the most important question in
such a > situation: what are the laws that the people affected actually want?
You would think this would be the question about most kinds of laws, >
but the laws around sex work tend to be constructed rather > spectacularly
without the input of any of the parties affected – with > a few key
counterexamples, such as New Zealand's 2003 legal reform. > > I'm not
normally in the habit of sharing TED talks – the tend towards > the
self-congratulatory and/or asinine. But this one is worth a watch > or a
read.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
