Buying Sex Should Not Be Legal - The New York Times

Anticapitalist activists are often divided on the question of prostitution. Is it  "sex work" in need of rights, recognition and trade unions, or is it something women need help to escape from, and which, at the end of the day, needs abolishing. I tend towards the second positon. Here is a piece from an ex-prostitute in favour of abolition.



Buying Sex Should Not Be Legal - The New York Times

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