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No ‘choice’ for women in the sex trade

As a frontline worker at Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter I am not surprised at the series of excuses men use to buy women.

I am happy to see a news article that focus on the “demand” side of prostitution – that is the men. Prostitution exists because of demand. If men stopped buying and selling women, prostitution would be abolished.

We believe that prostitution is a reflection and product of women’s inequality, not a free “choice.”

Thank you for highlighting the men who drive the prostitution industry.

And for highlighting the violence prostituted women face and also that so many of the women cannot live on the abysmal welfare rates and “choose” prostitution because there are no other economic alternatives.

Daisy Kler
Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter