Listen to our interview with City Councilmember Tiffany Cabán introduced legislation to protect sex workers rights and Ane Mathieson, the Project Director at the EMPOWER Center, a service center for survivors of commercial sexual exploitation.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Conversations about sex work and the stigma around it have been floating around New York City for years. The state has considered decriminalizing it. Some district attorneys have mostly stopped policing it. And now, new legislation hopes to make life easier for New Yorkers participating in sex work.
I mean, it comes down to what tools are in our toolbox. You know, a few years ago, I ran for Queens district attorney, and part of the platform was to decriminalize sex work, because there's a lot of research that shows that by decriminalizing sex work, you can actually better target trafficking. And so now I'm a city councilmember, and the tools in my toolbox are different.
Ane, as someone whose organization deals with people in this industry every day, do you have any concerns about the legislation?The bill that Councilmember Cabán introduced, has some very important points that we support, and some that are problematic. We support ending the arrests, incarceration and police harassment of people exploited in the sex trade as well. And we also advocate that the city and state provide free services to this population.
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