In the current legal system, other third parties, such as those who help other sex workers do advertisements, for example, or who help other people find a workplace, have all become illegal. In that narrative, in that story, and also in the law, they are often framed as human traffickers. That's why I keep saying that we are not able to see the agency of the people, and we are not able to see the actual situations of the people when we call sex work “human trafficking” or when we see sex work as exploitative. That's why we see so many police who keep harassing the sex workers—
On April 20th, 2023. See this statement in context.