Sold In America: The Workers

In Nevada, buying and selling sex is out of the shadows, legalized and heavily regulated. We visited one of America's most elite brothels to see what this exception in the sex trade looks like. Meanwhile in Washington, D.C., a woman who once engaged in sex to survive on the streets is at the center of an effort to decriminalize prostitution in the nation's capital.

This is one of three episodes in Newsy's "Sold in America" documentary series on the U.S. sex trade. Watch spoke with Dr. Barbara Brents, a professor at University of Nevada Las Vegas, who has been doing research in the legal brothels for more than 10 years. She co-authored the book "The State of Sex."

Dennis Hof ran for state office in 2016 as a Libertarian, but has 80% of street based sex workers surveyed in New York had experienced violence while working.

Trans women policy recommendation on decriminalizing sex work. The Chat