This article was poorly written and also perhaps a little exaggerated... What else would one expect from a TV news station, I suppose.

It is good that they asked actual sex workers what the issue was, instead of relying on "specialists" who often have never spoken to a sex worker in their lives and use poorly researched "statistics" to base their discussions on.

On the one hand, this is sort of poetic justice for those who supported FOSTA- many of whom probably live in that area of DC. It was a very fashionable thing to support a few years ago, with the erroneous assumption that trafficking would somehow be affected. Maybe it has, I would like to see those numbers. I have been a sex worker activist/advocate for over 13 years, and little legislation that has ever gone into effect for our or trafficked people's safety has ever had a positive impact. This is for a myriad of reasons, mostly because no none ever asks us what our experiences are with safety might be, taking a paternalistic approach to "what's best".

Maybe now they will listen to what we've been saying for years and finally decriminalize sex work. Even if only to keep us off their lawns.


xo.