The laws that sex workers really want
-
0:01 - 0:03I want to talk about sex for money.
-
0:03 - 0:06I'm not like most of the people
you'll have heard speaking -
0:06 - 0:08about prostitution before.
-
0:08 - 0:11I'm not a police officer
or a social worker. -
0:11 - 0:14I'm not an academic,
a journalist or a politician. -
0:14 - 0:17And as you'll probably have
picked up from Maryam's blurb, -
0:17 - 0:18I'm not a nun, either.
-
0:18 - 0:19(Laughter)
-
0:19 - 0:23Most of those people would tell you
that selling sex is degrading; -
0:23 - 0:26that no one would ever choose to do it;
-
0:26 - 0:28that it's dangerous;
women get abused and killed. -
0:29 - 0:31In fact, most of those people would say,
-
0:31 - 0:33"There should be a law against it!"
-
0:33 - 0:35Maybe that sounds reasonable to you.
-
0:36 - 0:40It sounded reasonable to me
until the closing months of 2009, -
0:40 - 0:43when I was working two dead-end,
minimum-wage jobs. -
0:44 - 0:47Every month my wages would just
replenish my overdraft. -
0:47 - 0:50I was exhausted and my life
was going nowhere. -
0:50 - 0:52Like many others before me,
-
0:52 - 0:54I decided sex for money
was a better option. -
0:55 - 0:56Now don't get me wrong --
-
0:56 - 0:59I would have loved
to have won the lottery instead. -
0:59 - 1:01But it wasn't going
to happen anytime soon, -
1:01 - 1:02and my rent needed paying.
-
1:03 - 1:05So I signed up for my first
shift in a brothel. -
1:06 - 1:08In the years that have passed,
-
1:08 - 1:10I've had a lot of time to think.
-
1:10 - 1:14I've reconsidered the ideas
I once had about prostitution. -
1:14 - 1:16I've given a lot of thought to consent
-
1:16 - 1:18and the nature of work under capitalism.
-
1:19 - 1:20I've thought about gender inequality
-
1:20 - 1:23and the sexual and reproductive
labor of women. -
1:23 - 1:27I've experienced exploitation
and violence at work. -
1:27 - 1:29I've thought about what's needed
-
1:29 - 1:31to protect other sex workers
from these things. -
1:31 - 1:33Maybe you've thought about them, too.
-
1:33 - 1:34In this talk,
-
1:34 - 1:37I'll take you through
the four main legal approaches -
1:37 - 1:39applied to sex work throughout the world,
-
1:39 - 1:40and explain why they don't work;
-
1:40 - 1:44why prohibiting the sex industry
actually exacerbates every harm -
1:44 - 1:45that sex workers are vulnerable to.
-
1:46 - 1:50Then I'm going tell you about what we,
as sex workers, actually want. -
1:52 - 1:55The first approach
is full criminalization. -
1:55 - 1:56Half the world,
-
1:56 - 1:59including Russia, South Africa
and most of the US, -
1:59 - 2:02regulates sex work by criminalizing
everyone involved. -
2:02 - 2:05So that's seller, buyer and third parties.
-
2:05 - 2:07Lawmakers in these countries
apparently hope -
2:07 - 2:11that the fear of getting arrested
will deter people from selling sex. -
2:11 - 2:13But if you're forced to choose
between obeying the law -
2:13 - 2:15and feeding yourself or your family,
-
2:15 - 2:17you're going to do the work anyway,
-
2:17 - 2:19and take the risk.
-
2:19 - 2:20Criminalization is a trap.
-
2:21 - 2:25It's hard to get a conventional job
when you have a criminal record. -
2:25 - 2:27Potential employers won't hire you.
-
2:27 - 2:28Assuming you still need money,
-
2:28 - 2:31you'll stay in the more flexible,
informal economy. -
2:31 - 2:34The law forces you to keep selling sex,
-
2:34 - 2:37which is the exact opposite
of its intended effect. -
2:37 - 2:42Being criminalized leaves you exposed
to mistreatment by the state itself. -
2:42 - 2:44In many places you may be coerced
into paying a bribe -
2:44 - 2:47or even into having sex
with a police officer -
2:47 - 2:48to avoid arrest.
-
2:48 - 2:51Police and prison guards
in Cambodia, for example, -
2:51 - 2:53have been documented
subjecting sex workers -
2:53 - 2:56to what can only be described as torture:
-
2:56 - 2:57threats at gunpoint,
-
2:57 - 3:00beatings, electric shocks, rape
-
3:00 - 3:01and denial of food.
-
3:02 - 3:03Another worrying thing:
-
3:03 - 3:08if you're selling sex in places
like Kenya, South Africa or New York, -
3:08 - 3:11a police officer can arrest you
if you're caught carrying condoms, -
3:11 - 3:15because condoms can legally be used
as evidence that you're selling sex. -
3:16 - 3:18Obviously, this increases HIV risk.
-
3:18 - 3:20Imagine knowing if you're busted
carrying condoms, -
3:20 - 3:22it'll be used against you.
-
3:22 - 3:25It's a pretty strong incentive
to leave them at home, right? -
3:25 - 3:29Sex workers working in these places
are forced to make a tough choice -
3:29 - 3:31between risking arrest
or having risky sex. -
3:32 - 3:33What would you choose?
-
3:34 - 3:36Would you pack condoms to go to work?
-
3:36 - 3:38How about if you're worried
-
3:38 - 3:41the police officer would rape you
when he got you in the van? -
3:41 - 3:45The second approach to regulating
sex work seen in these countries -
3:45 - 3:46is partial criminalization,
-
3:46 - 3:49where the buying and selling
of sex are legal, -
3:49 - 3:50but surrounding activities,
-
3:50 - 3:53like brothel-keeping or soliciting
on the street, are banned. -
3:54 - 3:55Laws like these --
-
3:55 - 3:57we have them in the UK and in France --
-
3:57 - 3:59essentially say to us sex workers,
-
3:59 - 4:00"Hey, we don't mind you selling sex,
-
4:00 - 4:03just make sure it's done
behind closed doors -
4:03 - 4:04and all alone."
-
4:04 - 4:06And brothel-keeping, by the way,
-
4:06 - 4:09is defined as just two or more
sex workers working together. -
4:09 - 4:12Making that illegal means
that many of us work alone, -
4:12 - 4:15which obviously makes us
vulnerable to violent offenders. -
4:15 - 4:16But we're also vulnerable
-
4:16 - 4:19if we choose to break the law
by working together. -
4:19 - 4:21A couple of years ago,
-
4:21 - 4:23a friend of mine was nervous
after she was attacked at work, -
4:23 - 4:27so I said that she could see her clients
from my place for a while. -
4:27 - 4:28During that time,
-
4:28 - 4:30we had another guy turn nasty.
-
4:30 - 4:33I told the guy to leave
or I'd call the police. -
4:33 - 4:36And he looked at the two of us and said,
-
4:36 - 4:38"You girls can't call the cops.
-
4:38 - 4:41You're working together,
this place is illegal." -
4:41 - 4:42He was right.
-
4:42 - 4:44He eventually left
without getting physically violent, -
4:44 - 4:47but the knowledge
that we were breaking the law -
4:47 - 4:48empowered that man to threaten us.
-
4:48 - 4:50He felt confident he'd get away with it.
-
4:51 - 4:54The prohibition of street prostitution
also causes more harm -
4:54 - 4:55than it prevents.
-
4:55 - 4:57Firstly, to avoid getting arrested,
-
4:57 - 4:59street workers take risks
to avoid detection, -
4:59 - 5:01and that means working alone
-
5:01 - 5:03or in isolated locations like dark forests
-
5:03 - 5:05where they're vulnerable to attack.
-
5:05 - 5:07If you're caught selling sex outdoors,
-
5:07 - 5:08you pay a fine.
-
5:08 - 5:11How do you pay that fine
without going back to the streets? -
5:11 - 5:14It was the need for money
that saw you in the streets -
5:14 - 5:15in the first place.
-
5:15 - 5:16And so the fines stack up,
-
5:16 - 5:18and you're caught in a vicious cycle
-
5:18 - 5:22of selling sex to pay the fines
you got for selling sex. -
5:22 - 5:26Let me tell you about Mariana Popa
who worked in Redbridge, East London. -
5:26 - 5:29The street workers on her patch
would normally wait for clients in groups -
5:29 - 5:31for safety in numbers
-
5:31 - 5:34and to warn each other about how
to avoid dangerous guys. -
5:34 - 5:38But during a police crackdown
on sex workers and their clients, -
5:38 - 5:41she was forced to work alone
to avoid being arrested. -
5:41 - 5:45She was stabbed to death
in the early hours of October 29, 2013. -
5:46 - 5:48She had been working later than usual
-
5:48 - 5:51to try to pay off a fine
she had received for soliciting. -
5:52 - 5:55So if criminalizing
sex workers hurts them, -
5:55 - 5:58why not just criminalize
the people who buy sex? -
5:58 - 6:00This is the aim of the third approach
-
6:00 - 6:01I want to talk about --
-
6:01 - 6:03the Swedish or Nordic
model of sex-work law. -
6:03 - 6:04The idea behind this law
-
6:04 - 6:07is that selling sex
is intrinsically harmful -
6:07 - 6:10and so you're, in fact, helping
sex workers by removing the option. -
6:11 - 6:12Despite growing support
-
6:12 - 6:15for what's often described
as the "end demand" approach, -
6:15 - 6:16there's no evidence that it works.
-
6:16 - 6:20There's just as much prostitution
in Sweden as there was before. -
6:20 - 6:21Why might that be?
-
6:22 - 6:24It's because people selling sex
-
6:24 - 6:26often don't have other options for income.
-
6:26 - 6:27If you need that money,
-
6:27 - 6:29the only effect that a drop
in business is going have -
6:29 - 6:31is to force you to lower your prices
-
6:31 - 6:34or offer more risky sexual services.
-
6:34 - 6:35If you need to find more clients,
-
6:35 - 6:37you might seek the help of a manager.
-
6:37 - 6:39So you see, rather than putting a stop
-
6:39 - 6:41to what's often descried as pimping,
-
6:41 - 6:43a law like this actually gives oxygen
-
6:43 - 6:45to potentially abusive third parties.
-
6:46 - 6:47To keep safe in my work,
-
6:47 - 6:49I try not to take bookings from someone
-
6:49 - 6:51who calls me from a withheld number.
-
6:51 - 6:53If it's a home or a hotel visit,
-
6:53 - 6:55I try to get a full name and details.
-
6:56 - 6:58If I worked under the Swedish model,
-
6:58 - 7:01a client would be too scared
to give me that information. -
7:01 - 7:02I might have no other choice
-
7:02 - 7:05but to accept a booking
from a man who is untraceable -
7:05 - 7:07if he later turns out to be violent.
-
7:08 - 7:09If you need their money,
-
7:09 - 7:11you need to protect
your clients from the police. -
7:11 - 7:13If you work outdoors,
-
7:13 - 7:15that means working alone
or in isolated locations, -
7:15 - 7:17just as if you were criminalized yourself.
-
7:17 - 7:20It might mean getting into cars quicker,
-
7:20 - 7:23less negotiating time
means snap decisions. -
7:23 - 7:26Is this guy dangerous or just nervous?
-
7:26 - 7:28Can you afford to take the risk?
-
7:28 - 7:30Can you afford not to?
-
7:32 - 7:33Something I'm often hearing is,
-
7:33 - 7:34"Prostitution would be fine
-
7:34 - 7:37if we made it legal and regulated it."
-
7:37 - 7:39We call that approach legalization,
-
7:39 - 7:41and it's used by countries
like the Netherlands, Germany -
7:41 - 7:43and Nevada in the US.
-
7:44 - 7:46But it's not a great
model for human rights. -
7:46 - 7:48And in state-controlled prostitution,
-
7:48 - 7:49commercial sex can only happen
-
7:49 - 7:51in certain legally-designated
areas or venues, -
7:52 - 7:55and sex workers are made to comply
with special restrictions, -
7:55 - 7:57like registration
and forced health checks. -
7:58 - 8:00Regulation sounds great on paper,
-
8:00 - 8:03but politicians deliberately make
regulation around the sex industry -
8:03 - 8:06expensive and difficult to comply with.
-
8:06 - 8:11It creates a two-tiered system:
legal and illegal work. -
8:11 - 8:14We sometimes call it
"backdoor criminalization." -
8:14 - 8:17Rich, well-connected brothel owners
can comply with the regulations, -
8:17 - 8:19but more marginalized people
find those hoops -
8:19 - 8:21impossible to jump through.
-
8:21 - 8:23And even if it's possible in principle,
-
8:23 - 8:26getting a license or proper venue
takes time and costs money. -
8:26 - 8:28It's not going to be an option
-
8:28 - 8:30for someone who's desperate
and needs money tonight. -
8:30 - 8:33They might be a refugee
or fleeing domestic abuse. -
8:33 - 8:35In this two-tiered system,
-
8:35 - 8:38the most vulnerable people
are forced to work illegally, -
8:38 - 8:41so they're still exposed to all
the dangers of criminalization -
8:41 - 8:43I mentioned earlier.
-
8:43 - 8:44So.
-
8:44 - 8:46It's looking like all attempts to control
-
8:46 - 8:48or prevent sex work from happening
-
8:48 - 8:50makes things more dangerous
for people selling sex. -
8:51 - 8:54Fear of law enforcement makes them
work alone in isolated locations, -
8:54 - 8:56and allows clients and even cops
-
8:56 - 8:59to get abusive in the knowledge
they'll get away with it. -
8:59 - 9:02Fines and criminal records force
people to keep selling sex, -
9:02 - 9:04rather than enabling them to stop.
-
9:04 - 9:07Crackdowns on buyers drive sellers
to take dangerous risks -
9:07 - 9:09and into the arms
of potentially abusive managers. -
9:09 - 9:13These laws also reinforce stigma
and hatred against sex workers. -
9:13 - 9:17When France temporarily brought in
the Swedish model two years ago, -
9:17 - 9:19ordinary citizens took it as a cue
-
9:19 - 9:21to start carrying out vigilante attacks
-
9:21 - 9:23against people working on the street.
-
9:23 - 9:25In Sweden, opinion surveys show
-
9:25 - 9:29that significantly more people want
sex workers to be arrested now -
9:29 - 9:31than before the law was brought in.
-
9:32 - 9:34If prohibition is this harmful,
-
9:34 - 9:36you might ask, why it so popular?
-
9:37 - 9:40Firstly, sex work is and always
has been a survival strategy -
9:40 - 9:43for all kinds of unpopular
minority groups: -
9:43 - 9:44people of color,
-
9:44 - 9:45migrants,
-
9:45 - 9:46people with disabilities,
-
9:46 - 9:48LGBTQ people,
-
9:48 - 9:49particularly trans women.
-
9:50 - 9:52These are the groups most heavily profiled
-
9:52 - 9:54and punished through prohibitionist law.
-
9:54 - 9:56I don't think this is an accident.
-
9:56 - 9:58These laws have political support
-
9:58 - 10:01precisely because they target people
-
10:01 - 10:04that voters don't want
to see or know about. -
10:05 - 10:07Why else might people support prohibition?
-
10:07 - 10:11Well, lots of people have
understandable fears about trafficking. -
10:12 - 10:16Folks think that foreign women
kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery -
10:16 - 10:18can be saved by shutting
a whole industry down. -
10:19 - 10:20So let's talk about trafficking.
-
10:21 - 10:25Forced labor does occur
in many industries, -
10:25 - 10:28especially those where the workers
are migrants or otherwise vulnerable, -
10:28 - 10:30and this needs to be addressed.
-
10:31 - 10:35But it's best addressed with legislation
targeting those specific abuses, -
10:35 - 10:36not an entire industry.
-
10:37 - 10:39When 23 undocumented Chinese migrants
-
10:39 - 10:42drowned while picking cockles
in Morecambe Bay in 2004, -
10:42 - 10:45there were no calls to outlaw
the entire seafood industry -
10:45 - 10:47to save trafficking victims.
-
10:47 - 10:51The solution is clearly to give
workers more legal protections, -
10:51 - 10:52allowing them to resist abuse
-
10:52 - 10:55and report it to authorities
without fear of arrest. -
10:55 - 10:58The way the term trafficking
is thrown around -
10:58 - 11:02implies that all undocumented
migration into prostitution is forced. -
11:02 - 11:05In fact, many migrants
have made a decision, -
11:05 - 11:07out of economic need,
-
11:07 - 11:10to place themselves into the hands
of people smugglers. -
11:10 - 11:11Many do this with the full knowledge
-
11:11 - 11:15that they'll be selling sex
when they reach their destination. -
11:15 - 11:16And yes, it can often be the case
-
11:16 - 11:20that these people smugglers
demand exorbitant fees, -
11:20 - 11:23coerce migrants into work
they don't want to do -
11:23 - 11:24and abuse them when they're vulnerable.
-
11:24 - 11:26That's true of prostitution,
-
11:26 - 11:28but it's also true of agricultural work,
-
11:28 - 11:30hospitality work and domestic work.
-
11:31 - 11:34Ultimately, nobody wants
to be forced to do any kind of work, -
11:34 - 11:37but that's a risk many migrants
are willing to take, -
11:37 - 11:38because of what they're leaving behind.
-
11:38 - 11:40If people were allowed to migrate legally
-
11:40 - 11:44they wouldn't have to place their lives
into the hands of people smugglers. -
11:44 - 11:45The problems arise
-
11:45 - 11:47from the criminalization of migration,
-
11:47 - 11:49just as they do from the criminalization
-
11:49 - 11:50of sex work itself.
-
11:50 - 11:52This is a lesson of history.
-
11:52 - 11:55If you try to prohibit something
that people want or need to do, -
11:55 - 11:59whether that's drinking alcohol
or crossing borders -
11:59 - 12:00or getting an abortion
-
12:00 - 12:02or selling sex,
-
12:02 - 12:04you create more problems than you solve.
-
12:04 - 12:06Prohibition barely makes a difference
-
12:06 - 12:09to the amount of people
actually doing those things. -
12:09 - 12:10But it makes a huge difference
-
12:10 - 12:13as to whether or not
they're safe when they do them. -
12:14 - 12:16Why else might people support prohibition?
-
12:17 - 12:20As a feminist, I know
that the sex industry is a site -
12:20 - 12:23of deeply entrenched social inequality.
-
12:23 - 12:26It's a fact that most buyers of sex
are men with money, -
12:26 - 12:28and most sellers are women without.
-
12:28 - 12:31You can agree with all that -- I do --
-
12:31 - 12:34and still think prohibition
is a terrible policy. -
12:35 - 12:37In a better, more equal world,
-
12:37 - 12:41maybe there would be far fewer
people selling sex to survive, -
12:41 - 12:44but you can't simply legislate
a better world into existence. -
12:44 - 12:47If someone needs to sell sex
because they're poor -
12:47 - 12:48or because they're homeless
-
12:48 - 12:51or because they're undocumented
and they can't find legal work, -
12:51 - 12:55taking away that option
doesn't make them any less poor -
12:55 - 12:57or house them
-
12:57 - 12:59or change their immigration status.
-
12:59 - 13:01People worry that selling
sex is degrading. -
13:02 - 13:04Ask yourself: is it more degrading
than going hungry -
13:05 - 13:07or seeing your children go hungry?
-
13:07 - 13:10There's no call to ban rich people
from hiring nannies -
13:10 - 13:12or getting manicures,
-
13:12 - 13:15even though most of the people
doing that labor are poor, migrant women. -
13:15 - 13:19It's the fact of poor migrant women
selling sex specifically -
13:19 - 13:22that has some feminists uncomfortable.
-
13:22 - 13:24And I can understand
-
13:24 - 13:26why the sex industry provokes
strong feelings. -
13:26 - 13:29People have all kinds
of complicated feelings -
13:29 - 13:31when it comes to sex.
-
13:32 - 13:35But we can't make policy
on the basis of mere feelings, -
13:35 - 13:37especially not over
the heads of the people -
13:37 - 13:39actually effected by those policies.
-
13:39 - 13:41If we get fixated on
the abolition of sex work, -
13:41 - 13:44we end up worrying more
about a particular manifestation -
13:44 - 13:45of gender inequality,
-
13:45 - 13:48rather than about the underlying causes.
-
13:48 - 13:51People get really hung up on the question,
-
13:51 - 13:53"Well, would you want
your daughter doing it?" -
13:53 - 13:55That's the wrong question.
-
13:55 - 13:58Instead, imagine she is doing it.
-
13:59 - 14:00How safe is she at work tonight?
-
14:01 - 14:03Why isn't she safer?
-
14:04 - 14:07So we've looked at full criminalization,
-
14:07 - 14:10partial criminalization,
the Swedish or Nordic Model -
14:10 - 14:12and legalization,
-
14:12 - 14:13and how they all cause harm.
-
14:13 - 14:16Something I never hear asked is:
-
14:17 - 14:19"What do sex workers want?"
-
14:20 - 14:22After all, we're the ones
most affected by these laws. -
14:23 - 14:26New Zealand decriminalized
sex work in 2003. -
14:27 - 14:28It's crucial to remember
-
14:28 - 14:32that decriminalization and legalization
are not the same thing. -
14:32 - 14:35Decriminalization means
the removal of laws -
14:35 - 14:37that punitively target the sex industry,
-
14:37 - 14:40instead treating sex work
much like any other kind of work. -
14:40 - 14:43In New Zealand, people
can work together for safety, -
14:43 - 14:46and employers of sex workers
are accountable to the state. -
14:46 - 14:49A sex worker can refuse
to see a client at any time, -
14:49 - 14:50for any reason,
-
14:50 - 14:53and 96 percent of street workers
-
14:53 - 14:56report that they feel the law
protects their rights. -
14:56 - 14:58New Zealand hasn't actually
seen an increase -
14:58 - 15:00in the amount of people doing sex work,
-
15:00 - 15:03but decriminalizing it
has made it a lot safer. -
15:03 - 15:05But the lesson from New Zealand
-
15:05 - 15:07isn't just that its particular
legislation is good, -
15:07 - 15:08but that crucially,
-
15:08 - 15:11it was written in collaboration
with sex workers; -
15:11 - 15:13namely, the New Zealand
Prostitutes' Collective. -
15:13 - 15:15When it came to making sex work safer,
-
15:16 - 15:19they were ready to hear it straight
from sex workers themselves. -
15:19 - 15:20Here in the UK,
-
15:20 - 15:24I'm part of sex worker-led groups
like the Sex Worker Open University -
15:24 - 15:26and the English Collective of Prostitutes.
-
15:26 - 15:28And we form part of a global movement
-
15:28 - 15:31demanding decriminalization
and self-determination. -
15:32 - 15:34The universal symbol of our movement
is the red umbrella. -
15:34 - 15:38We're supported in our demands
by global bodies like UNAIDS, -
15:38 - 15:39the World Health Organization
-
15:39 - 15:41and Amnesty International.
-
15:41 - 15:43But we need more allies.
-
15:43 - 15:46If you care about gender equality
-
15:46 - 15:48or poverty or migration or public health,
-
15:48 - 15:51then sex worker rights matter to you.
-
15:51 - 15:53Make space for us in your movements.
-
15:53 - 15:57That means not only listening
to sex workers when we speak -
15:57 - 15:59but amplifying our voices.
-
15:59 - 16:01Resist those who silence us,
-
16:01 - 16:05those who say that a prostitute
is either too victimized, -
16:05 - 16:07too damaged to know
what's best for herself, -
16:07 - 16:09or else too privileged
-
16:09 - 16:11and too removed from real hardship,
-
16:11 - 16:15not representative of the millions
of voiceless victims. -
16:16 - 16:21This distinction between victim
and empowered is imaginary. -
16:21 - 16:23It exists purely to discredit sex workers
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16:23 - 16:25and make it easy to ignore us.
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16:26 - 16:28No doubt many of you work for a living.
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16:29 - 16:30Well, sex work is work, too.
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16:31 - 16:32Just like you,
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16:32 - 16:34some of us like our jobs,
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16:34 - 16:35some of us hate them.
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16:36 - 16:38Ultimately, most of us
have mixed feelings. -
16:39 - 16:42But how we feel about our work
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16:43 - 16:44isn't the point.
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16:44 - 16:48And how others feel
about our work certainly isn't. -
16:48 - 16:51What's important is that we have
the right to work safely -
16:51 - 16:52and on our own terms.
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16:52 - 16:54Sex workers are real people.
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16:55 - 16:57We've had complicated experiences
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16:58 - 17:01and complicated responses
to those experiences. -
17:02 - 17:04But our demands are not complicated.
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17:04 - 17:07You can ask expensive
escorts in New York City, -
17:07 - 17:10brothel workers in Cambodia,
street workers in South Africa -
17:10 - 17:13and every girl on the roster
at my old job in Soho, -
17:13 - 17:16and they will all tell you the same thing.
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17:16 - 17:18You can speak to millions of sex workers
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17:18 - 17:20and countless sex work-led organizations.
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17:20 - 17:24We want full decriminalization
and labor rights as workers. -
17:25 - 17:27I'm just one sex worker
on the stage today, -
17:27 - 17:30but I'm bringing a message
from all over the world. -
17:30 - 17:31Thank you.
-
17:31 - 17:37(Applause)
- Title:
- The laws that sex workers really want
- Speaker:
- Toni Mac
- Description:
-
Toni Mac speaks at TEDxEastEnd 2016
- Video Language:
- English
- Team:
- closed TED
- Project:
- TEDTalks
- Duration:
- 17:50
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