Susie Bright interviews Laura Agustin, author of Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labor Markets and the Rescue Industry.
Agustin says:
Traditional prostitution debates are theoretical, focusing on the abstract question of whether selling sex can be considered a job — or must be defined as violence against women. Often debates seem to be a search for a single moral truth, in which the words of the subjects themselves are irrelevant.
Read the rest of the article here.
Previously: Hookers have no sense of humor; And another thing: it’s not ‘sex work‘ when you’re just lying there
See also: The Truth Behind the Sex Trade (alternet.org), A different view: The Girls Next Door (nytimes); Teen girls’ stories of sex trafficking (abcnews)
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