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A couple of years ago, a friend of mine was nervous after she was attacked at work,
幾年前，我的一位朋友在工作時被襲擊后非常緊張，
so I said that she could see her clients from my place for a while.
我讓她暫時在我的地方見她的客戶。
During that time, we had another guy turn nasty.
在那段時間，我們遇到了另一個很下流的人。
I told the guy to leave or I'd call the police.
我讓他離開，否則會報警。
And he looked at the two of us and said,
這時他看著我們兩個說，
"You girls can't call the cops. You're working together, this place is illegal."
“你們沒辦法報警。你們一起工作，這是違法的。”
He was right. He eventually left without getting physically violent,
他是對的。他最終沒有使用暴力離開了，
but the knowledge that we were breaking the law empowered that man to threaten us.
但是他知道我們違反了法律，并且以此為武器要挾我們。
He felt confident he'd get away with it.
他知道我們拿他沒有辦法。
The prohibition of street prostitution also causes more harm than it prevents.
同樣，禁止街頭拉客不但沒有減少性工作者的危險，反而造成了更多的傷害。
Firstly, to avoid getting arrested, street workers take risks to avoid detection,
首先，街頭的工作者為了不被發現，避免被捕，
and that means working alone or in isolated locations like dark forests where they're vulnerable to attack.
往往一個人工作，或者去僻靜的角落比如森林深處，在這些情況下他們更容易遭到襲擊。
If you're caught selling sex outdoors, you pay a fine.
如果你在室外賣淫被發現，你必須繳納罰款。
How do you pay that fine without going back to the streets?
可是如果你不回到街上，哪里有錢支付罰款呢？
It was the need for money that saw you in the streets in the first place.
而錢就是迫使那些女人回到街頭最初的原因。
And so the fines stack up,
如果罰款越來越多，
and you're caught in a vicious cycle of selling sex to pay the fines you got for selling sex.
她們就陷入了惡性的循環，用賣淫來支付違法賣淫的罰款。
Let me tell you about Mariana Popa who worked in Redbridge, East London.
我來講一個馬里亞納·波帕的故事，她在雷德布里奇東倫敦工作。
The street workers on her patch would normally wait for clients in groups for safety in numbers
考慮到人多會安全一些，她那里的站街女一般一邊聚在一起等待顧客
and to warn each other about how to avoid dangerous guys.
一邊互相警告如何避開危險的人。
But during a police crackdown on sex workers and their clients,
但是在警方掃黃打非的活動中，
she was forced to work alone to avoid being arrested.
她被迫一個人工作以防被逮捕。
She was stabbed to death in the early hours of October 29, 2013.
她在2013年10月29日被刺死
She had been working later than usual to try to pay off a fine she had received for soliciting.
她工作的比平常稍晚一些，只是為了償還因為拉客而收到的罰款。
