There are more people in the sex work industry than we might think, new research suggests

A recent study on Canadian sex workers indicates that most are only active for brief periods of time and that currently active sex workers are part of a much larger inactive population. The findings have been published in the scientific journal PLOS One. “There is very, very little demographic research on the topic of sex work in industrialized democracies,” said study author Lynn Kennedy of the Sex Work Population Project (@SexWorkPopCA). “Nevertheless, many governments have implemented repressive and possibly dangerous policies to regulate the industry. The aim of this study was to fill in s…

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