Apparently the U.S. Congress is not done kicking around sex workers. After passage of the FOSTA-SESTA, several Congressional members think that is not enough. U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) are "pushing a proposal in the Senate that would impose similar restrictions on sex workers’ bank accounts — a move that sex workers say could further endanger their income, safety and lives."
Liara Roux, a sex worker and producer of independent adult media stated, “What a lot of organizers are worried about is how these broad anti-trafficking initiatives are often applied in a targeted manner that hurts more vulnerable people rather than helps them. If this bill is passed in a climate where sex work is so stigmatized that no distinction is made between a trafficked individual and someone who is just trying to survive, you’re just as likely to see vulnerable people’s bank accounts closed as actual traffickers caught.”
Apparently "good government" action that will push sex workers and their industry further into the shadows....
Any comments?
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...cid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__052918
Liara Roux, a sex worker and producer of independent adult media stated, “What a lot of organizers are worried about is how these broad anti-trafficking initiatives are often applied in a targeted manner that hurts more vulnerable people rather than helps them. If this bill is passed in a climate where sex work is so stigmatized that no distinction is made between a trafficked individual and someone who is just trying to survive, you’re just as likely to see vulnerable people’s bank accounts closed as actual traffickers caught.”
Apparently "good government" action that will push sex workers and their industry further into the shadows....
Any comments?
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...cid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__052918
