“ This lip service expected from every well-adjusted and passably happy prostitute in the Western world severely hampers our ability to discuss their work in a constructive way. Magnanti’s insistence that she was “unbelievably fortunate”—as though the only thing that keeps a sex worker from ending up emotionally scarred and physically abused is luck—diminishes the circumstances that allowed her to work in a healthy, safe way: screening measures, assistance from a woman with experience, and a legal status that made possible turning to the police should an emergency arise.
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November 24, 2009
