Thank you so much.
I think you raise a really important question. From what we've seen in the public health literature and our own experience working with sex workers in the context of our research, it's really clear that the stigmas and the values that we hold as a society are very much shaped by public policy and public discourse. A law like this, as we've seen and as other scholars have shown, can actually fuel those sorts of issues that you mentioned and the ways in which sex work can be singled out and conflated with trafficking. When something is criminalized, it is seen as immoral, as something going on that we need to be concerned about in a different way.
Trafficking exists across many sectors. Exploitation occurs across all sectors of work. When a type of work is pushed underground, that's when getting reports around these things become impossible.