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Rose Hunter speaks out on traumatic experience in sex industry

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South Australia could soon become the next state in Australia to fully decriminalise prostitution or sex work. The advocates of decriminalisation have strong allies in parliaments across Australia, especially in the Labor and Green parties. But one survivor is urging politicians to rethink their support for legalisation. 

Rose Hunter spent a decade in the sex industry. She's the author of Body Shell Girl and, this week, she wrote an open letter to South Australian MPs on the ABC’s Religion & Ethics website

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There's nothing explicit in this conversation, but there is a reference to sexual assault.

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