A few other people who could be considered pimps under that model: the local dry-cleaner, Uber drivers, phone service providers. But don’t you see how all these puritans are trying to *help* you by making it illegal for anyone to provide you with even basic services?

Parts of Australia decriminalised sex work in 1979 and my state completely legitimised it in (i think) 1995.

The demand will always be there, it just means that clients with nothing to lose will most likely hurt or kill a sex worker. It also means full service sex workers will have to work more for less money.

No, I don’t feel comfortable doxxing myself on this Kinja site. However, if you want to help sex worker directly I’m right here.

I think in Australia that a man was given jail time for not paying the sex worker he was seeing. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-0…

“The organisation’s view is that existing laws around prostitution, such as the ‘Nordic Model’ where sex workers are decriminalised but clients and pimps still face criminal sanctions for buying sex, still create problems for sex workers.

No, that is bullshit. Lena Dunham is an actual, real and present danger to ongoing feminist discussion. She doesn’t seem to understand complexity, she is avowedly privileged and pays nothing but passing consideration to the fact that this might hinder her understanding of people in other circumstances and frankly I…

The side that is 99% ivory tower academia and religious Fundamentalists is being drowned out by the side that possesses the vast majority of people with skin in the game? Go figure.

Yeah. Backpage switching to using bitcoins only has hurt my business of the last few weeks. At first it was good and I was making more money, but it has since cooled a lot.

Can I have 200 dollars?

Yes, there are consensual sex workers in the world. There just happen to be many, many more who are coerced and trafficked into it, and the reforms Amnesty is backing here do not protect those people.

So when I don’t have the money to pay rent and I’m starving you will do what exactly?

There is so much whorephobia, I just can even.

I’m coerced into going to work every day. I’m coerced to get out of bed to feed my fucking cats. Capitalism is coercion.

The Nordic model just eliminates accountability on the part of men (as what they are doing remains illegal, so all their activities are illegal anyway) and increases violence against the girls. This has been proven to be a totally bullshit model that helps nobody.

We are focused on: How can we keep sex workers safe, how can we empower them to have access to their rights, and how can we make sure they have access to healthcare

S when deeming a pregnancy unwanted it’s “our body, our choice”, but as for making a living/earning a wage it should still be a legal matter?

Right, but in those cases the laws were crafted in a way to shove things out of public view, which made it easier to hide abuses by pimps as well as sex trafficking.

This isn’t an easy subject, but the fact is people should be able to do what they like with their own bodies. What must be illegal is the coercion and…

No, it’s legalization, not decriminalization, that would require regulation and licensing. This is why so many sex workers support decriminalization but not legalization.

We are focused on: How can we keep sex workers safe, how can we empower them to have access to their rights, and how can we make sure they have access to healthcare?”