very important to anyone who is an escort, or hires escorts

[Dave]

a bit hesitant to redirect, but I think every escort or client should see this. escorting's a political and legal issue that affects all of us... even if saying that is a boner-killer:

 

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL RECENT POLICY

[AdamSmith]

No, this redirect into its own thread is absolutely the right thing.

 

Looking around at the commentariat's reaction, it is distressing, if predictable, to see so little comprehension, and so much knee-jerk conflation of consensual sex work with trafficking, structural oppression and so on.

 

The old reliable left-of-center UK New Statesman gave one of the only endorsements I could find:

 

Why Amnesty International should back decriminalisation of buying and selling sex