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From the Ted Talk by Juno Mac: The laws that sex workers really want
Unscramble the Blue Letters
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Open Cloze
_______________ is a trap. It's hard to get a conventional job when you have a criminal record. Potential employers won't hire you. Assuming you still need _____, you'll stay in the more ________, ________ economy. The law forces you to keep _______ sex, which is the exact opposite of its intended effect. Being criminalized leaves you exposed to mistreatment by the state itself. In many places you may be coerced into paying a bribe or even into having sex with a police officer to _____ ______. Police and prison guards in Cambodia, for example, have been __________ subjecting sex workers to what can only be described as torture: threats at gunpoint, beatings, electric shocks, rape and denial of food.
Solution
- criminalization
- avoid
- selling
- flexible
- documented
- arrest
- informal
- money
Original Text
Criminalization is a trap. It's hard to get a conventional job when you have a criminal record. Potential employers won't hire you. Assuming you still need money, you'll stay in the more flexible, informal economy. The law forces you to keep selling sex, which is the exact opposite of its intended effect. Being criminalized leaves you exposed to mistreatment by the state itself. In many places you may be coerced into paying a bribe or even into having sex with a police officer to avoid arrest. Police and prison guards in Cambodia, for example, have been documented subjecting sex workers to what can only be described as torture: threats at gunpoint, beatings, electric shocks, rape and denial of food.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
sex workers |
18 |
selling sex |
14 |
sex work |
10 |
police officer |
4 |
sex industry |
4 |
street workers |
4 |
sex worker |
4 |
south africa |
3 |
people selling |
3 |
people smugglers |
3 |
workers working |
2 |
means working |
2 |
nordic model |
2 |
potentially abusive |
2 |
people support |
2 |
migrant women |
2 |
ngrams of length 3
collocation |
frequency |
people selling sex |
3 |
sex workers working |
2 |
Important Words
- arrest
- assuming
- avoid
- beatings
- bribe
- cambodia
- coerced
- conventional
- criminal
- criminalization
- criminalized
- denial
- documented
- economy
- effect
- electric
- employers
- exact
- exposed
- flexible
- food
- forces
- guards
- gunpoint
- hard
- hire
- informal
- intended
- job
- law
- leaves
- mistreatment
- money
- officer
- paying
- places
- police
- potential
- prison
- rape
- record
- selling
- sex
- shocks
- state
- stay
- subjecting
- threats
- trap
- workers