The second of two episodes focusing on sex work in the Permian Basin in Texas.  The host Susan Elizabeth Shepard talks with the police and those representing trafficking victims and those selling sex consensually. There is no hard evidence to support claims of increased trafficking in the area, though there is an increase in sex work The police would rather go after the traffickers than make hundreds of prostitution arrests. Terra Burns an advocate would rather see decriminalization allowing the police to protect sex workers and go after the traffickers.

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