Flutterby™! : "Sex work isn’t stigmatised because it is dangerous. Sex work is dangerous because it is stigmatised."

New Statesman: Laurie Penny: This strange neo-Victorian desire to save prostitutes and porn actresses:

For a law that claims to be designed to protect women, Proposition 35 looks surprisingly like every other law in the history of sexual and social conservatism crafted to protect the clean-living middle classes from more "corrupt" elements of the community by sending in the police and taking away their livelihoods. The elements of class suspicion at work here shouldn't have to be spelled out.