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A Queer Defence of the Sex Trade

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What is happening in Russia at the moment is that those in the LGBT movement who openly promote legalisation of the sex trade are all gay men. They do not have direct experience of what the sex trade is.

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Bindel, J. (2019). A Queer Defence of the Sex Trade. In: The Pimping of Prostitution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95947-1_10

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