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French sex workers are challenging a 2016 law that criminalises people who buy sex.

This week, they went to the Constitutional Council to fight the law that they say infringes on their sexual and commercial freedom. It has reopened a debate in the country on whether people should be able to have sex for money without fear of prosecution.

Thierry Schaffauser is a sex worker in Paris and a member of Strass, the French Sex Workers' Union. He says the law makes it more dangerous to work.

(Photo of Thierry Schaffauser. Credit: Camille McOuat)