In fact, the criminalisation of the way sex work is organised and sold targets sex workers themselves. All economic transactions, and the fact of working indoors or with a colleague for our safety, leads us to break the law and prevents us from organising ourselves. The criminalisation of clients pushes us to find intermediaries who will organise the meeting with them and take a commission on our incomes.

Prohibition will never stop sex work – because sex work is an economic strategy for many women, migrants and minorities, because nothing can stop people from trying to improve their lives and because nothing can stop sexual desire.

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