Rethinking sex workers rights- link to debs

It is another strange piece of synchronicity that, just after writing about the Great Whore, I should read this article on Debs' site. Whatever you may feel about pornstitution, sex work or whatever you like to call it, the fact is that many women are being brutalised and even murdered because they are regarded as "whores" and therefore somehow deserving of it. Will further criminalisation help remedy this? Somehow I doubt it. I strongly recommend reading the article