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title: ""Many also take issue with the idea that sex workers are people and,…"
date: 2016-01-15
source: facebook
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# "Many also take issue with the idea that sex workers are people and,…

*January 15, 2016 · Facebook*

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[http://www.ravishly.com/2014/10/18/i-represent-sex-workers-because-sex-work-work-and-sex-workers-are-people](http://www.ravishly.com/2014/10/18/i-represent-sex-workers-because-sex-work-work-and-sex-workers-are-people){target="_blank"}
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\"Many also take issue with the idea that sex workers are people and, as with all other people, are making rational decisions about the work that they do based on the options available to them as well as their goals, preferences, and needs. This is true even of victims of trafficking---people who are forced into sex work. Many of my trafficked clients choose to remain in their trafficking situations because the alternatives (often the threat of harm, homelessness, deportation, returning to an abusive home) are less desirable. Because we don't listen to sex workers or believe that they are individuals with agency, the majority of "solutions" that we have implemented on a large scale---criminalization and "rescue"---are unhelpful and even harmful.\"\
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[http://www.ravishly.com/2014/10/18/i-represent-sex-workers-because-sex-work-work-and-sex-workers-are-people](http://www.ravishly.com/2014/10/18/i-represent-sex-workers-because-sex-work-work-and-sex-workers-are-people){target="_blank"}
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