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And I can understand why the sex industry provokes strong feelings.
我可以理解為什么性產業會引發強烈的不滿情緒。
People have all kinds of complicated feelings when it comes to sex.
當提到性的時候，人們都有很復雜的情緒。
But we can't make policy on the basis of mere feelings,
但是我們不能僅僅根據情緒立法，
especially not over the heads of the people actually effected by those policies.
更不能不考慮實際上會被法律影響的人們而立法。
If we get fixated on the abolition of sex work,
如果我們對于，廢除性交易念念不忘，
we end up worrying more about a particular manifestation of gender inequality,
最終只會擔心更多的性別不平等的其他特例，
rather than about the underlying causes.
而不是真正地思考背后的原因。
People get really hung up on the question, "Well, would you want your daughter doing it?"
人們往往全神貫注于諸如“為什么你讓女兒做這種事？”的問題。
That's the wrong question. Instead, imagine she is doing it.
這不是我們要解決的問題。而是想象她在做這種事的時候
How safe is she at work tonight? Why isn't she safer?
晚上工作有多安全？為什么不能更安全？
So we've looked at full criminalization,
所以我們已經了解了完全刑事化
partial criminalization, the Swedish or Nordic Model and legalization, and how they all cause harm.
部分刑事化，瑞典北歐模型和合法化，也知道為什么他們都會造成傷害。
Something I never hear asked is: "What do sex workers want?"
我從沒聽見過有人問：“性工作者需要什么？”
After all, we're the ones most affected by these laws.
畢竟我們是最受法律影響的人。
New Zealand decriminalized sex work in 2003.
新西蘭2003年使性交易無罪化。
It's crucial to remember that decriminalization and legalization are not the same thing.
切記，無罪化和合法化不是一樣的。
Decriminalization means the removal of laws that punitively target the sex industry,
無罪化意味著針對性產業的法律懲罰被移除，
instead treating sex work much like any other kind of work.
而不是像其他職業一樣，平等看待性產業。
In New Zealand, people can work together for safety, and employers of sex workers are accountable to the state.
在新西蘭人們可以為了安全一起工作，性工作者的雇主接受國家的監督。
A sex worker can refuse to see a client at any time, for any reason,
性工作者可以在任何時間，以任何理由拒絕去見一個客戶，
and 96 percent of street workers report that they feel the law protects their rights.
96%的街道工作者認為法律保護了她們的權益。
