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    <author><![CDATA[JackieE]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I totally agree with all of the sex positive empowering comments about sex work. I am also actively engaged in prevention and aftercare efforts to end/heal commercially sexually exploited children (CSEC) in Oakland.
        
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      <![CDATA[I agree that in order to stop sex trafficking and abuse legalizing sex work is a necessarily step that includes requiring all workers to be licensed. I think they have something similar in Las Vegas, but the model I would implement would be comprehensive and require rigorous enforcement on all levels.
        
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      <![CDATA[Had the author of this piece gone to the Redbook site, she would have seen some of those numbers she claims no one knows and she could have made them public. Right now, there are almost 75,000 women in the SF Bay Area advertising on redbook, another 48,000 in Sacramento/Central Valley and about 20,000 in Southern California.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Serena Toxicat]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[To continue along on the tangent: Weight has little to do with age, and older and/or fat providers do and will continue to work and earn abundantly.
        
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      <![CDATA[Thank you so much for this article. I am planning to do my PhD dissertation on sex work.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Shannon Williams]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[You actually can do sex work forever - or for as long as you want to. I'm in my late 40's, I've been doing sex work for 17 years, and my business just keeps getting better and better.
        
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      <![CDATA[Apparently Joe doesn't have what the majority of the women interviewed have earned - a degree. If he did, he might have better reading comprehension and have realized that the "whores" who are going to get "old and fat" aren't idiots.
        
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      <![CDATA[No mention of what happens to whores when they get old and fat and have no other means of support.
        
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      <![CDATA[I love this article. Ellen Cushing is such a brilliant writer.
        
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      <![CDATA[The debate as it stands now is polarized and prop 35 has added another level of extreme because they didn't even come and ask us or talk to us before they proposed this piece of crap before the voters. They can say we're 'privileged' all day long but the fact remains many workers and our families cannot gain access to equal protection under the law for fear of being criminalized and further stigmatized and discriminated against.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:43:20 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Leila Love Swan]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The only way to help stop abuse is to legalize sex work like Canada did. How can people come out and proud when they fear being arrested, and how can those being abused get help when they too fear being punished by the law.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:35:49 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[armyofwon]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[How do we have an honest conversation about sex work if we don't talk about male privilege and the idea that men somehow deserve access to the bodies of others, even if they have to pay for it or take it? Why do the johns always seem to get a free pass?
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:49:49 -0700</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Excellent article. I'm tired of the assumption that it's only privileged, educated, women who actually choose to do sex work.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Jolene Parton]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I'm so happy this article turned out so beautifully! Thank you Ellen for being such a sensitive ear to the many stories of sex work in Oakland.
        
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