Consti­tution­al challe­nge lodged to strike down 2016 law making it illega­l to pay for sexPARIS: French sex workers have lodged a constitutional challenge to a 2016 law making it illegal to pay for sex, reopening a debate on whether women should be free to sell their bodies. These include agreeing to engage in unprotected sex or to have sex in isolated environments where they are more vulnerable to attack. In August a Peruvian transgender sex worker, Vanesa Campos, was killed in the forested Bois de Boulogne park west of Paris. “We don’t want a society where it is possible to buy someone else’s dignity,” a lawyer for the abolitionist camp, Cedric Uzan-Sarano, argued before the Constitutional Council. The Constitutional Council will publish its decision on whether the law is compatible with France’s basic charter on February 1.

Source: The Express Tribune January 23, 2019 17:48 UTC