When the state sees a population solely through the lens of disease and contagion, it stops engaging with them as citizens.

About 1,500 sex workers are affected due to barricades in the Ganga-Jamuna red light area over "illegal sex trade" concerns.

This week in The Buzz Cut, we look at tragedies in 'The White Lotus', and a book thief mystery.

Sex worker organizations argue the proposed legislation conflates trafficking and sex work.

Meaningful consent is possible only if robots achieve independent decision-making skills, which many futurists believe is only a few decades away.

"Once women band together, they become formidable opponents," says the president of the National Network of Sex Workers.

"We’re insisting our clients wear masks and use sanitizers along with us. We have to save their family and keep ours safe too."

Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, who oversees the Vatican's charities, says he simply did what Jesus would have done.

With decriminalization, sex work is just another job; with legalization, it's a job regulated by the state.

Decriminalization helps make the sex work industry safer.

Activists are pushing governments around the world to care about HIV from a human rights perspective.

But the court's landmark decision isn't progressive enough.

There is a difference between consensual sex work and human trafficking - a nuance the bill ignores.