You could, but the problem is that they have redefined prostitution as trafficking. Activists have been training law enforcement to see all women in this business as coerced even without a pimp. So, because of that, this new law can apply to any site that knows members are using it for sex for money ads. The key here is knows. And then the other problem is exposure. In order to bring new clients, it can’t be a secret. And if it can be found, feds will be all over it. There are many sites hosted out of the US that are still up and in countries where this is legal. Some are screening the US but you can get around it with a VPN. We do still have options even now. But if you are based in the US, you will get targeted.

Criminalization is what bothers me so much. Sex workers spinning their wheels instead of having control of their labor bothers me. Sex workers being harmed over and over and over and never getting emancipated bothers me.

Thank goodness there are people who get this and who are doing something about it. People who understand what it’s going to take to stop the damage and state violence. But they don’t get funded and the work is harder to accomplish when people don’t support the work to decriminalize.

Bandaids help in the moment, but we need a lasting cure that puts us in control.

That is where I am coming from here.

Hey, this is totally legitimate, and an end goal of activist groups like these, but there’s an immediate need that needs to be addressed right now. I’m not sure why this bothers you so much.