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Where do people get off telling people what to do? It's their bodies. If you legalized sex work and legally protected the sex workers, you wouldn't see anything like human trafficking. All of that would be obliterated.

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Margaret Cho
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 5
Comedian
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San Francisco County
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