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Legal sex workers in New England find themselves shut out from banking, payment platforms

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The OnlyFans login page. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
The OnlyFans login page. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

The Boston Globe's Diti Kohli reports the rise in payment platforms like Venmo helped sex workers stabilize their finances. Now, those platforms are cracking down on the sex industry.

Diti joins us, along with Jessica Van Meir, a PhD student at the Harvard Kennedy School and co-founder of a subscription platform for content creators.

This segment aired on June 5, 2023.

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