Law Enforcement Does Not Make Sex Workers Safer
No, sex workers encounter violence from law enforcement and face difficulty in safely reporting at a higher rate than many other populations.
Criminalizing Sex Work Does Not Improve Safety or Public Health
Criminalization of sex work is often falsely believed to improve societal health, minimize sex trafficking, and keep sex workers safe. However, criminalization worsens these outcomes by driving both sex workers and trafficking victims underground, where they experience more violence, fewer social services, and less access to adequate healthcare. Decriminalization would be far more effective at ensuring sex workers' physical safety, economic stability, and physical and mental health.
The Super Bowl is NOT a large human trafficking event.
The media frequently reports the Super Bowl to be a huge event for sex trafficking. However, sex trafficking during the Super Bowl is not higher than the rate of sex trafficking in general and efforts to curtail the alleged higher numbers of trafficking actually hinder overall anti-trafficking efforts.
Sex Workers Are Not Victims of Trafficking and Exploitation
Are all sex workers victims of trafficking and exploitation? No, many sex workers choose their profession voluntarily and have agency in their work. Conflating sex workers with sex trafficking victims dismisses this agency and, as a result, diminishes consideration of…