FOSTA: you’re hurting the people you want to help

Originally published at: https://prostasia.org/blog/fosta-hurting-people-you-want-to-help/

On paper, FOSTA was supposed to be about protecting people like me. During 2017, when the proposed law was still called SESTA (Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act), I was 17 years old and performing sex work online. I was above the age of consent for sex in my state and was never “trafficked”; I worked…