# The War on Sex Work **URL:** **By** Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Trevor Burrus, Aaron Ross Powell **Published:** April 28, 2017 --- Elizabeth Nolan Brown joins us this week for a discussion about sex work. What's the difference between sex trafficking and prostitution? Elizabeth Nolan Brown joins us this week for a discussion about sex work. What's the difference between sex trafficking and prostitution? How much sex trafficking is going on in the United States? **Show Notes and Further Reading** Much of Brown's work at _Reason_ focuses on sex work, [here's a reverse-chronological list of all the articles she's written there](https://reason.com/search?f%5Bauthor%5D%5B%5D=elizabeth-nolan-brown&q=%2A&s=-pubdate). We talked in detail about Brown's September 2016 _Reason_ cover story, "[The Truth About the Biggest U.S. Sex Trafficking Story of the Year](http://reason.com/archives/2016/09/09/the-truth-about-us-sex-trafficking)."