The Soho Forum Debates

A Feminist Debate on Sex Work

May 20, 2022

01:19:40

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Sex Work Is More Valuable to Women Than Men

02:21

Sex Work Is Work, and They Want Rights, Not Rescue

02:20

Should a Good Criminal Society Criminalize the Purchase of Sacks?

02:38

Introduction

3min

Are You in Prostitution?

4min

Sex Workers and the Global Sex Trade

2min

Women Paying for Sex

3min

Women in Prostitution

2min

Why Criminalize the Demand?

4min

Should a Good Criminal Society Criminalize the Purchase of Sacks?

3min

Do You Have a Right to Sell Sex?

2min

Sex Workers Say They've Experienced Less Police Harassment

4min

10.

Sex Work Is Work, and They Want Rights, Not Rescue

2min

11.

Sex Work Is More Valuable to Women Than Men

2min

12.

Criminalization of Sex Work

3min

13.

New Zealand Is a Gold Standard Model for Prostitution

3min

14.

End Demand for Drugs

3min

15.

I Don't Want My Son or Daughter to Be Sex Worked

5min

16.

Is There Evidence That Women Are Arrested for Prostitution?

6min

17.

Do You Have Any Insights About the Different Cultures?

3min

18.

I Don't See a Problem With Paying for Sex

2min

19.

Sex Work - Should We Do Both?

6min

20.

Is Prostitution Increasing Violence Against Women?

4min

21.

Sex Work

2min

22.

Do You Believe That the Level of Resourcing Necessary to Prevent Broad Harm to Sex Workers Is Impossible?

6min

23.

Sex Work

5min

Do people who hire sex workers deserve to go to jail, or should all laws prohibiting consensual sex work be repealed?

On May 9, 2022, writer and activist Julie Bindel debated Reason's Elizabeth Nolan Brown at the Sheen Center in lower Manhattan. The resolution was "A good society should criminalize the purchase of sex."

The event was hosted by The Soho Forum, a monthly debate series sponsored by the Reason Foundation.

Bindel is the London-based author of The Pimping of Prostitution: Abolishing the Sex Work Myth. She opposes arresting women for the selling of sex but wants their customers to face consequences for their actions.

Reason's Elizabeth Nolan Brown, who's also the co-founder and president of Feminists for Liberty, took the position that all laws prohibiting consensual sex work should be abolished.

The debate was moderated by Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein.

Narrated by Nick Gillespie; intro edited by John Osterhoudt

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