With Zohran Mamdani's election as New York City mayor, can we expect a change in the city's policies related to sex work? There are some reasons to suspect that the answer to this question is yes.

Losing NYC mayoral candidate and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo certainly wanted people to think so. Back in August, Cuomo's team put out a press release calling out "Mamdani's dangerous support for decriminalizing prostitution."

It's true that during his time in the New York State Assembly, Mamdani cosponsored legislation to decriminalize prostitution. Running for reelection in 2022, he pledged that he would reject legislation to implement the Nordic model of sex work regulation, in which some selling of sex is decriminalized but paying for it is not. And back in 2021, he supported the repe

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