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Should sex work be a crime?

Should sex work be a crime?
Question of the week: Why Rentboy.com?
Question of the week: Why Rentboy.com?

Well, it was a good week for Craigslist. Last week, The Department of Homeland Security made the deeply bizarre decision to raid Rentboy.com, ending one of the best ways for escorts and clients to find each other online.

But if sex work is so harmful that DHS feels the need to get involved, why is it that so many major medical and human rights groups actually support decriminalization?

Matt Baume weighs in on The Department of Homeland Security’s not-so smooth move, and what it means in the grand scheme of things.

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