United States | Prostitution in America

How to bring sex work out of the shadows

The debate over different approaches to decriminalisation

A modern message from the oldest profession
|Washington, DC

LIFE FOR women who sell sex in Manhattan may be a little easier these days. In April the district attorney’s office said it would stop prosecuting those who offered or agreed to engage in a sex act for payment. Buyers of sex, though, can still be charged with “patronising a prostitute in the third degree”.

This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Bringing sex work out of the shadows”

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