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Open in the appSex work is legally recognized in Switzerland – and yet it remains heavily stigmatized in society. Many sex workers experience exclusion, prejudice and discrimination in everyday life. At the same time, demands for a ban on the purchase of sex come from various political and… Sex work is legally recognized in Switzerland – and yet it remains heavily stigmatized in society. Many sex workers experience exclusion, prejudice and discrimination in everyday life. At the same time, demands for a ban on the purchase of sex come from various political and social quarters, which sex workers and specialists, however, see as posing additional risks and further pushing them into unsafe working conditions. But what concrete effects do stigmatization and such political efforts have on the lives of sex workers, their safety and their participation in society? How do deeply rooted social ideas shape sex work? And what ways are there to break down prejudices and overcome the stigmatization of sex work in the long term? We discuss this with Ruby Rebelde, a sex worker and writer of «Why they hate us, hostility towards sex work», sex worker Jana Oneira and Dr. iur. Beatrice Bänninger, Managing Director of Solidara Zürich / Isla Victoria.