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I was so disappointed in Amnesty International that I cried. I am withdrawing all funding and support and instead donating my money to front-line women’s charities.

No, the Nordic model decriminalizes sex work for the sex workers. Amnesty is not coming up with some new idea that is saving sex workers from the legal system. People’s issue with Amnesty’s position is that it decriminalizes pimps and johns.

Where? The comment addresses a reality of prostitution that so many want to ignore. There are more in the biz without choice than there are in it because it is what they wanted. And society does not view prostitution or prostitutes as legit. All real. Not at all shaming. As well the commentor is advocating for…

I wish I could star you multiple times. I’m tired of the voices on the “other” side of the debate being ignored or drowned out. There are serious implications for creating any kind of system where prostitution is decriminalized.

I could not find the original article that estimated 20 million trafficking victims worldwide. All other articles I have found estimate significantly less with this being the highest I number could find at 2.5 million: http://www.psysr.org/issues/traffic…

World would would be easier for all of us if life were a little more clear cut wouldn’t it. I think you’re absolutely right it is a complicated issue though, with respect, I’m not sure phrases like ‘I stand with the oppressed aren’t a little sensationalist media like. You’ve clearly read up on the topic and formed…

Thanks, I appreciate the effort. I’ll take a look at these and see if I can find anything else, it’s an important issue and I think I need to read up a little

They are going to try to make a “slap stick” out of it, and the original was not that. I agree, it’s going to suck.

There’s every chance the movie will suck. It will have nothing to do with the Ghostbusters lack of male genitalia.

I’m just super bummed there will be no Harold Ramis.

You are seriously losing the plot. Sometimes the social contract requires us to give up the odd individual liberty for the good of the group. Prostitution is a perfect example of that. The 1% of women who actually have the freedom to choose to do it ought to choose NOT to, for the sake of women who don’t have that…

‘almost all choose to’. That right there is grade-A bullshit. What a naive, fairytale little world you live in to be sure. Women are FORCED into it because they have a kid at home to buy school shoes for. Because they ran away from home because their mother’s boyfriend was molesting them. Because their trafficker has…

Yes that’s right, pick on some ridiculously obscure turn of phrase and make THAT the problem. No, it’s not a job, for most it is an unpleasant survival choice. You might as well say that begging is a job.

So is robbing banks and burglarizing homes.

I just want to thank you for taking the time to write these comments (seriously). This article is incredibly misleading and I actually agree with the petitition in question. I fear this is another Jezebel “sex work is the apex of feminism and if you don’t agree you’re a misogynist” article.

Thanks for pointing this out, it makes more sense. Still not sure I agree with the petitioners — needs more research on my part.

I want the author to answer this criticism!

This article is absolute garbage. You have completely misrepresented what is happening here and you should be fucking fired. You crap on at length about how these celebrities are against decriminalization of sex work, yet fail to acknowledge the following statement:

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