9/20/20 review of Kimberly Hamlin article on age of consent laws

Here is the link to my September 20, 2020, Twitter thread reaction to Kimberly Hamlin's Smithsonian Magazine article "What Raising the Age of Consent Taught Women About the Vote."

In this article, from as recent as August of 2020, Hamlin literally becomes the only person other than myself (sorry, but this is true), and the only authority on this subject, to discuss the connection between age of consent laws and sex work laws.

However, Hamlin makes this connection and her argument for purposes of further conservatizing sex laws -- including sex work laws.

This really highlighted for me how important it is for sex work decriminalization to recognize this historical connection between sex work laws and age of consent laws, before conservative authorities take and rewrite this history -- in favor both of high age of consent laws, the continued criminalization and stigmatization of sex work, and the continued vicious cycle of sex paranoia in the United States.

Thank you for reading. Please enjoy.