The Work of Anti-Sex Trafficking, and the Trafficking of Sex Worker Rights

Roderick Graham
18 min readMar 24, 2020

Climate change. Illegal immigration. Raising the minimum wage. Anti-vaxxers. Cancel culture. These are all social issues that regularly play out in the mainstream media. These issues will be a major part of the upcoming presidential debates as well.

In 2020, there is little national debate about commercial sex. But I’m convinced that in the coming years, there will be serious national debates about the legalization of all forms of commercial sex — or sex work as the advocates of legalization describe it…

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Roderick Graham

Gadfly | Professor of Sociology at Old Dominion University | I post about social science, culture, and progressive politics | Views are my own