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San Francisco sex workers are on a mission to decriminalize prostitution
A new Bay Area coalition is arguing that the best way to stop the horrifying exploitation of forced prostitution is to make the world's oldest profession legal.
For the past month the Sex Workers Outreach Project has been aggressively and creatively lobbying across the Bay Area to repeal laws that criminalize sex work. Its members want to bring the entire industry out from the underground so sex workers can report abuse without fear of arrest and customers won't support criminal syndicates.
"Prohibition breeds this kind of activity," SWOP director Robyn Few told us. "If this is about the poor women who are victims, what about the victims? They are likely in jail now and will be deported. We could have helped protect these women, but instead we fed them to the wolves."
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"Prohibition breeds this kind of activity," SWOP director Robyn Few told us. "If this is about the poor women who are victims, what about the victims? They are likely in jail now and will be deported. We could have helped protect these women, but instead we fed them to the wolves."
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http://www.sfbg.com/38/18/cover_hookers.html
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