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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I sincerely hope the DC Council has an ounce of sense and does not pass this legislation. We're in a weird era where hyper-left ideas can rocket to the top of the policy agenda, without much meat behind them.  While I am hyper-left myself and would love to live in a world where women who legitimately chose sex work could do it safely, I'm smart enough to know that we are not in that world.  Prostitution preys on the most vulnerable of women, and this bill is not going to change that, and may in fact increase it. It's a shockingly irresponsible way to legislate, and my sense is that the council members pushing it just want a progressive feather in their caps, without doing the HARD work of actual policymaking.

One thing the bill sponsors claim is that the bill does not legalize prostitution -- it just decriminalizes it. But I don't understand why this is a good thing. What that means, to me, is that DC will stop controlling prostitution at all (currently through policing), will create a brand new economy for sex work, but will completely fail to regulate that brand new economy!  On what planet is that good policy, particularly where the stakes are so high for these workers.

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