Episode 124 - Power, Secrets, and Shifting Laws (3 News Stories on Sex Work in America)

In this episode, Vivian explores three headline-making stories: a Pennsylvania spa exposed as a front for “trafficking,” a former public defender’s dramatic fall from grace, and the shifting policies and politics of sex work in New York City.

Together, these cases reveal how law, power, and morality collide in the world’s oldest profession.

Vivian also shares her frustration with how government officials continue to use sex work as a political talking point—casting only female sex workers as “victims” while completely leaving male sex workers out of the conversation.

Like the majority of sex workers, she reiterates that the only real way to regulate the industry and keep people safe—if safety is truly the concern—is through decriminalization.

📖 Read the full articles discussed in this episode:

• Story 1 – PennLive
• Story 2 – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• Story 3 – NY1

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