Why San Francisco Should Decriminalize Prostitution

by Jen Nedeau · 2008-10-30 14:38:00 UTC
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Karly Kirchner, who worked for eight years in San Francisco's sex industry, guest blogs over at Matt Kelly's Criminal Justice Blog about Proposition K and why it should be passed on November 4th. I gave the feminist perspective on the ballot initiative earlier this week, but I encourage everyone interested to read her post as well.

Here's one of the excerpts I found most compelling:

Prop K will reduce violence. Predators target sex workers because they believe that nobody cares about this criminal class of women. Both legal and social alienation of sex workers makes them easy targets for those who wish to do harm.  More often than not, violence is committed against sex workers by those who do not want to pay them and/or those who want to take money away from them, including law enforcement officers. Prop K allows for safer communication between workers and safe clients, minimizing exposure to danger.


Jen Nedeau Jen Nedeau is a media relations professional and a writer based in New York City.
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