Hysteria about people-trafficking is causing considerable damage to the lives of sex workers in Australia, and around the world.
Women (and some men) do make rational, considered decisions to emigrate for sex work. We might prefer that wasn’t the case, but their adult decisions should be regarded as just that.
And they also decide to stay at home for the work – and this video from Cambodia shows the sort of damage done by attempts to stop them.
What does deserve a great deal more attention, and action, is the use of rape as a weapon of war, and the good news of the week is that the UN may finally be beginning to take this seriously.
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