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If Portland residents want a prostitution free zone they will be best served by working towards a *john free* zone. Criminalize the johns if you want a workable solution--criminalizing prostitutes is simply a perpetual motion of abuse. There is a tragic reason women can make significantly more selling their body parts than they can so many other jobs (especially those without a multitude of privileges many of us take for granted). Residents should be just as insulted to find the men of their area value womens' bodies in this way as they are to find their streets so littered in sexual coercion.

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