Ineffective laws are a threat to sex workers in South Africa
Perhaps now we have a chance to decriminalise the world’s oldest profession
11 December 2022 - 00:00
In On the City Wall, a short story by the English author Rudyard Kipling, sex work is described as the oldest profession in the world. Before Kipling penned this description, the existence of sex work was already inked in Sumerian writings, which are one of the earliest known corpuses of recorded literature. ..
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