After watching the Red Umbrella Diaries, I saw some differences of how people are portrayed in the sexual marketplace for example like in media and news. Mass media illustrates sex workers as people who are slutty, dirty and do not have respect for themselves. Furthermore, there are stereotypes of the kind of people that get into the sex industry there viewed as people who are low-income, uneducated and looking to have erotic experiences. In addition, the sexual marketplace is seen as an industry that has influenced the spread of sexual transmitted diseases. For these reasons and others the news discusses the sexual marketplace as an industry that needs to be stopped and fixed by arresting people. I have also heard from the news that the sex
