Cecilia Gentili

So it was great.

You know, life was much better.

Of course, all of that ended with SESTA and FOSTA.

You know, we don't have the opportunity to, you know, look in the, you know, in our forums and like to see if, you know, the clients that are coming to see us are, you know...

not good, you know?

And also like where, you know, many of us are not able to advertise, you know, people had to go back to the streets, you know, people that were not used to the streets anymore, you know?

And also like, you know, the fact that it was more, more sex workers in the streets and

it gave clients a certain level of leverage, right?

Because, you know, sex workers had to, you know, take clients, you know, that they wouldn't otherwise just because, you know, they needed to work.

So Sesta and Fosta, you know, and shutting down the website, you know, was terrible for the sex workers community.

It's really terrible, really, really terrible.

I used to live on Mott Street and me and a friend of mine, you know, had apartments right across the hall and the police went once and they raided her apartment and arrested her.

And they were knocking on my door and knocking on my door and knocking on my door.

And I just didn't open.

I was terrified.

And, you know, and I looked through the peephole and I, you know, saw how they were taking her.

And they were really, they really wanted me too.

And I just didn't open.

Nobody should have to work hard.

Or do what they do for a living with this terrible fear of being arrested all the time.