Last week, a Conservative politician dismissed the idea that anyone would willingly become a sex worker. Speaking to NDP MP Laurel Collins after she urged Parliament to consider decriminalizing sex work, Conservative MP Arnold Viersen said, “I do not think any woman in this country ever chooses this as a job. This is something that they are trafficked into.” Victims of sex-trafficking do exist. The issue is an extremely serious one which deserves the time, attention, and funding required to help eradicate it. However, what Viersen, and many others are missing, is that consensual sex work and sex trafficking are ... (full story)