Opinion: Decriminalization of sex work is essential

As principal of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, I have the privilege of working in a converted living room replete with big windows, wooden floors, trimmed mouldings and brightly coloured walls. My office has an additional unique feature: its own private bathroom. In fact, the three-story walk-up in which the institute resides includes 10 private bathrooms. That is because, in some distant past, this building likely was, as the story is told, home to a brothel.
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