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A History of Sex as a Business 10 | Where Do We Go From Here: Laws, Justice, and Human Dignity
Five thousand years of history bring us to the hardest questions: what policies actually protect people, what evidence says about different approaches, and what it would mean to organize our response to commercial sex around the genuine interests of the most vulnerable people involved.
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