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Fear of law enforcement makes them work alone in isolated locations,
對制定法律的恐懼，讓她們在僻靜的角落孤獨(dú)的工作
and allows clients and even cops to get abusive in the knowledge they'll get away with it.
遭受客人們甚至警察的虐待，因?yàn)樗麄兛梢藻羞b法外。
Fines and criminal records force people to keep selling sex, rather than enabling them to stop.
罰款和犯罪記錄逼迫她們不停地賣淫，而不是阻止她們。
Crackdowns on buyers drive sellers to take dangerous risks and into the arms of potentially abusive managers.
針對買春者的打擊行動反而增加了賣春者受虐待的風(fēng)險，并助長了第三方產(chǎn)業(yè)。
These laws also reinforce stigma and hatred against sex workers.
法律也將對性工作者的恥辱和仇恨釘在大家心中。
When France temporarily brought in the Swedish model two years ago,
當(dāng)兩年前法國引入瑞典模型時
ordinary citizens took it as a cue to start carrying out vigilante attacks against people working on the street.
民眾紛紛受到影響，舉行一系列的民眾抗?fàn)?，抵制街頭工作的性工作者。
In Sweden, opinion surveys show
在瑞典民意調(diào)查顯示
that significantly more people want sex workers to be arrested now than before the law was brought in.
在相關(guān)法律實(shí)施以后，更多的人希望性工作者被逮捕。
If prohibition is this harmful, you might ask, why it so popular?
如果禁令如此有害，你也許會問為什么它這么受歡迎？
Firstly, sex work is and always has been a survival strategy for all kinds of unpopular minority groups:
首先，性工作從古至今一直是不受歡迎的少數(shù)群體的生存策略。
people of color, migrants, people with disabilities, LGBTQ people, particularly trans women.
包括有色人種，移民，殘障人士，同性戀泛性戀人群，尤其是人妖。
These are the groups most heavily profiled and punished through prohibitionist law.
這些人是受到賣淫管制的，針對和懲罰最嚴(yán)重的。
I don't think this is an accident.
我不認(rèn)為這是巧合。
These laws have political support precisely because they target people that voters don't want to see or know about.
這些法律背后都有特定的政治支持，因?yàn)樗麄兙褪轻槍x民所不喜歡看到或知道的人。
Why else might people support prohibition?
還有民眾支持禁止賣淫的原因么？
Well, lots of people have understandable fears about trafficking.
很多人對，販賣人口有無可厚非的恐懼。
Folks think that foreign women kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery can be saved by shutting a whole industry down.
民眾認(rèn)為如果整個賣淫產(chǎn)業(yè)被禁止，外國女人就不會被綁架和作為性奴隸進(jìn)行買賣。
So let's talk about trafficking.
所以我們談?wù)勅丝谫I賣。
