The juxtaposition between voluntary ‘sex work’ and sex trafficking dominates the discourse concerning prostitution legislation globally. In reality, the commercial sex trade is a far more nuanced system of power dynamics. Today, four main policy frameworks have been popularized to address prostitution internationally and in the United States: criminalization, full decriminalization, legalization, and partial decriminalization. Leading advocates for survivor centered legislation, Melanie Thompson and Yasmin Z. Vafa will dissect these models and their ideological underpinnings through global case studies to answer the highly debated question: what is the best policy to address prostitution.