"Ask the 'working girls' themselves"
The Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith is setting out her plans to reform the . Paying for sex is likely to become a crime if the sex-worker is "controlled for another person's gain". When the proposals were first mooted we received this.
Someone should ask the 'working girls' themselves
When Harriet Harman it attracted a number of interesting comments, like this:
I've been working in the sex business for a long time now and like many, many of my colleages I have never taken drugs nor was I destitute. I am not a victim nor are my clients criminals. I, like thousands of others in the UK, do it out of choice.
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