All performers in See Me Now work under partial criminalisation and those I speak to are vocal about it.
Stephen Engelberg, the editor-in-chief of the investigative website ProPublica, said the ruling was "extremely unfortunate given the criminalisation under this government of officials talking to reporters".
What Ingala Smith didn't mention was that four sex workers have been killed in Leeds since 1990, three under a policy of criminalisation of sex workers and buyers.
She said the criminalisation - under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 - was "a further move by the government to ensure victims are protected by the law and that they have the confidence, safety and the freedom to choose".
The aim of legal same-sex marriage is equality under the law, not the criminalisation of a certain popular strain of Christian doctrine.
The criminalisation of forced marriage – under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 – was designed to give victims the confidence to come forward and protect thousands of people each year.
In Guatemala, Marsha Lopez, part of the V-Day movement since 2001, says the most important result of OBR was the creation of a law for the criminalisation of perpetrators who impregnate girls under 14 years old.
Further, the criminalisation of wild meat consumption fuelled fears and rumours within communities under considerable strain from the health, social, and economic effects of the epidemic, entrenching distrust towards outbreak responders and exacerbating pre-existing tensions within villages.
"The criminalisation of gay and bisexual men, who were cautioned and convicted under homophobic laws that banned sex between consenting adult men is a blemish on our history and it is right that we now address this injustice with a full and automatic pardon, and a system that allows people to have these discriminatory convictions removed from their records".
Advocates for criminalisation will argue that "prostituted persons" (a despicable term that denies our agency) will be decriminalised under the new proposals.
