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China's Sex Workers Face Routine Abuse

China's Sex Workers Face Routine Abuse

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May 15, 2013
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The country whose Communist ruler once hailed the eradication of houseflies and prostitutes as a symbol of socialist progress now finds itself in the crosshairs of a report on the widespread mistreatment of the millions of sex workers who have accompanied China's economic boom.

With the myth of Mao Zedong's supposed socialist puritanism a fading memory, …

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