You like cake? I'm sure you like cake, in some form. There are so many. It's hard to not like any of them. Wet or dry, sweet, sour, even savoury or hot. With cream, without cream. Some tastes in cake are easy and wide, some narrow. But whatever they are, no one would feel the idea of hating the baker for making cake makes sense - even if there is not a single cake in the world they like.

If you feel that's absurd, hating sex workers is pretty much the same. Sex work is incredibly broad. Hating sex workers makes no sense. I remember that a study about the effects of porn consumption among young men could not be made because no control group could be found! I'm ace, and even I will look at some stuff and say "hot". And there's people making that of their own, free will, with joy, and no more or less coerced or exploited than the bakers above.

Oh, also? Making all clients criminals won't do a thing to make things less or better or safer. It will only lead to sex workers exclusively dealing with criminals as clients. And that's not a good thing. #SexWork

Interactions between sex workers & the police often end up in violence, with many sex workers sufficiently scared of the police not to report violence they are subject to by criminals seeking to control & exploit them.

Researchers note: 'if the top priority for sex work-related policing was enabling sex workers to report serious violence, then police activities that breed further fear & mistrust must stop or be severely restricted'!

#sexwork
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/sex-workers-need-the-police-to-do-better-not-more/