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What makes life difficult and dangerous, according to a recent report by and about sex workers in the Lower Mainland and southern Vancouver Island, is the criminalization of some aspects of sex work, the stigma against it in health care and housing, and intersections with the toxic drug crisis.
Sex workers who were asked how to make their jobs safer and their lives better said they wanted better access to health care, mental health support, safer bathrooms and different working environments as a way to protect themselves from violence.