“Prostitution is the consensual offering of a sexual service in exchange for money”
TheGreatMango
thegreatmango
Thank you.
They are opposed to the decriminalization of purchasing and pimping. They are for the decriminalization of se workers. How is this actually confusing to people.
You would think so, but no. I expect cops to be assholes, but they won’t be able to be assholes within the law.
And yet human trafficking is an enormous problem within Australia, often occurring within or adjacent to legal brothels, where trafficked sex slaves, often shipped in from overseas, are systematically raped and tortured. Okay start?
I don’t doubt it. And yet...
My position in a nutshell: Sex work should be decriminalized. Pimps and johns should not.
I do listen to sex workers. And when on earth have I said decrim is “always” a bad thing? I’m proposing that sex work should be decriminalized. And yes, making the sex trade illegal IS helping, in those countries that have adopted the Nordic model. As you rightly point out, no solution is perfect, so we should opt for…
I have several, internet douchebag. This is what I do.
Celebrities didn’t devise this open letter. Former sex workers, human rights authorities and doctors did.
I do. Firstly, almost all sex work IS abusive. Secondly, countries where the sex trade is legal (like where I’m from) are vastly more dangerous for sex workers. It may not seem like what you’d expect, but the legal sex trade ALWAYS acts as cover to the illegal trafficking trade.
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Tell it to Rachel Moran.
It’s not a semantic distinction. One can oppose the malignant, abusive, contemptible sex trade while still believing sex workers ought not be charged with a crime and ought to be entitled to social security, etcetera. I can’t believe I even have to make this point on a ‘feminist’ website.
Right. The enormous, vast majority who join by choice, huh? What a pleasant fantasy.
What are your credentials to assert such a thing? Almost all sex workers ‘choose’ to be fucked by paying strangers several times a day, while being raped by their pimps and financially destitute? Really? Do go on.
They are factually incorrect. Categorically. The open letter, which I expect the author either didn’t read or purposely ignored, states definitively that the signatories support decriminalizing sex work.
I expect not, though I do expect the wording expresses the view that the vast majority of sex workers are being exploited, which is the truth.
Well, no, the point isn’t moot. This is an argument for reform, after all.