Dr. Teresa Whitaker:

Yes, that is part of the symbolic violence. The symbolic violence is that society is saying sex workers should not have a voice in making laws. Of course they should. That is a form of violence. Legislators are undermining a group of people who make their money in a certain way. They are moralising on it and they want to criminalise the buyers of sexual services. They want to take away their client base. What other group would they do that to?