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Prostitution can never be a job like any other – the ‘occupational hazards’ involve criminal acts

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BBC report suggests that under a new law, they will be entitled to official employment contracts, health insurance, pensions, maternity leave and sick days.

But it has been decades since anyone selling or paying for sex was criminalised in Belgium .

Prostitution can never be a job like any other because the occupational hazards of selling sex bear no relation to those faced by us.

Pro-slavery strategist in the West Indies once suggested that negroes’ should be called assistant planters’, rather than slaves.

The redefinition of prostitution as just another job’ is equally cynical and self-serving.

Women and their bodies are not chattels to be bought and sold, conscious or otherwise.

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