That's according to Alisa Bernard, a former prostitute who now works with the advocacy group
World Without Exploitation as its national campaign manager.
“In my opinion, if women had learned how to screen out bad guys in our lives, we would have started doing that generations ago,” she said, adding, that it’s “a victim blaming way” to point out that the women who were killed “just didn't screen well enough.”
Bernard, who is white, said that most of the people working in the sex industry are disproportionately women of color, LGBTQ folks, and the impoverished.
Similar to some, she did experience sexual abuse in her childhood and she was a teenage runaway.
“Things just kind of led from there,” she added.
"There's a misconception that somehow we can screen out the bad guys, like there's a difference between a good buyer and a bad buyer."
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