You may have seen the news. Amnesty International leaders have added prostitution--they prefer to call it "sex work"--to the list of human rights they will defend. Last Tuesday the Nobel Prize-winning human rights organization adopted a new policy endorsing "the full decriminalization of all aspects of consensual sex work."
"All aspects" means that Amnesty will seek to shield from prosecution not only the prostituted women and men but also the "johns" who pay them and the pimps who profit. Perhaps these participants in the sex trade, if arrested, might join the list of Amnesty-certified "prisoners of conscience."
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