MOVIE · 2013
Buying Sex
Documentary75 min
As Canada debates prostitution law, Buying Sex gathers sex workers, lawyers, policymakers, and the men who buy sex to argue over decriminalization, safety, and power. Former Vancouver street worker Trisha Baptie now speaks as an abolitionist, while sex worker advocate Valerie Scott presses the case for a different legal approach. Filmed in Canada, Sweden, and New Zealand, the documentary moves between personal testimony and policy debate, comparing how different countries handle the sex trade and what those choices mean for the people most exposed to violence, punishment, and public scrutiny.
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