If you really want to support women involved in sex work, we should be working towards decriminalising it. Criminalising clients only pushes sex work underground and forces workers to carry out their jobs in secretive, unsafe environments, putting their health and safety at 1/3 https://twitter.com/joanmcalpine/status/1304335959467659264
risk. Decriminalisation aims to allow sex workers to regulate the industry and remove any exploitation that may exist within it, allowing their safety and rights to be prioritised. For example, in New Zealand where sex work was decriminalised in 2003, official government 2/3
reports have found that 70% of sex workers said they were more likely to report violence to the police and there has been no evidence of trafficking since the law changing.

Please take the time to listen to sex workers and the charities supporting them, such as @UmbrellaLane đź’ś
Oh and a wee reminder: ✨sex work is work✨
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