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327. Rachel Moran on Her Years in Prostitution, How She Got Out of It, and Why She Thinks It Is a Form of Sexual Exploitation

The Michael Shermer Show

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Do We Legalize Prostitution?

Prostitution needs to be partially decriminalized, he says. The women and men involved in prostitution themselves ought to be decriminalized on the principle that nobody ought to be criminalized for their own exploitation. But all of the other third party exploiters, the pimps, the traffickers, the men who buy access to people, they are allowed to becriminalized and harshly,. All of them. He was enormously disappointed here in Ireland when we got to the end of a very long campaign to find that, although we got what we wanted on paper, we got the criminalization of the purchase of sexual access.

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