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Sold In America: The Buyers

Newsy examines the nationwide effort to crack down on the buying of sex and how that affects people who sell sex to survive.

By: Kate Grumke , Noor Tagouri

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What happens when law enforcement and policymakers go after those who fuel demand within the sex trade? Newsy spoke with sex buyers, sex workers, a prosecuting attorney and U.S. senator to find the answer — and it's far more complicated than we expected.

This is one of three episodes in Newsy's "Sold in America" documentary series on the U.S. sex trade. Watch Peter Qualliotine.

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