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[maenads_dance]

I live in Rhode Island, the only state in the USA in which indoor prostitution is currently decriminalized. However, this may be about to change: a bill has been written and has already passed the state senate and house judiciary committees which would make indoor prostitution illegal and punishable for both clients and prostitutes by prison

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[lipzofs0rr0w]

personally i think this bill shouldn't be passed. I understand the *being forced* being a horror and trying to *help victims*, but this is about sexuality. This bill would repress sexuality, and like you stated put immigrant women in danger. Fuck society and what it thinks. We have been so conditioned, reading something like this is like a grasp of fresh air.

[vinnie_tesla]

Thank you for this thoughtful and raw account. Your insights and experiences are fascinating, and opinions from someone with first-hand experience seem like a rarity on this issue sometimes.

[cruelbitch]

Hi. I live in Rhode Island, and I'm also a sex worker. Have been for several years.

You posit a worthwhile dilemma to consider regarding East Asian sex trafficking (the precise customers of mine, in fact, were also avid consumers of the massage parlors). There's an equally large problem regarding trafficking of South American (more specifically Brazilian) women worth mentioning here. A program I'm involved with is heavily invested in devising strategies to avoid their prosecution and possible deportation, while still managing to accomplish their removal from exploitation. It is, as you've acknowledged, a dishearteningly tangled issue.

ProCon.org is a comprehensive source of unbiased cross-cultural research on the subject, where it analyzes radically different approaches undertaken. I'm partial to Sweden's successful approach (which often leads to Libertarians wanting to wring my neck) in minimizing coercion and violence, while also providing ample social services to the workers -- trafficking has been reduced to roughly 200