Legalise, tax, protect sex workers from exploitation and clients from STDs.
Sex ‘work’ should be banned. Millions of women are trafficked and raped because of disgusting creeps who can’t form normal relationships or just want to abuse women.
The only reasonable approach is the New Zealand one, with complete ~~legalisation~~ decriminalisation of sex work equating it with any other job. It should be possible to do sex work in any way, in complete freedom of choice, be it on the streets, in any house/establishment (owned or rented) or as an employee to a formally established business. Everything else just encourages exploitation to different degrees.
Without prostitutes, politicians can only spend the money they steal on cocaine, but cocaine without prostitutes it doesn’t satisfies politicians.
Sex work for some, miniature EU flags for others.
Politicians hate competition.
It’s better to legalize and protect the prostitutes.
Legalize it and regulate brothels (while allowing independent women to do as they please, not feeling obligated to work in a certain way i.e at a brothel or other business that isn’t theirs). Full legalization is the way, not the nordic model (which sounds like a good idea until you realize it is extremely paternalistic/patriarchal and also doesn’t real work, and not abolitionism either. It is a women’s right to provide sexual services for whatever compensation she desires, and it is a man’s right to seek them if they are consensually provided.
Sad to see the mainstream endorsement of the commodification of vulnerable human’s bodies. Some adults chose to be sex workers, but for most it’s a choice made out of desperation or addiction.
They are split cause politicians are friends with traffickers and mafias (asian women for example) and legalising it would put them out of business.
Legalise, regulate, test.
Might get downvoted as people seem to have super sugarcoated view of the legalization of sex work, but it’s not the holy grail that it’s often portrayed as. I watched one documentary about brothels specifically in Amsterdam and it was an absolute hell for the women. Majority of them were Roma women from Bulgaria and Romania that went with the promise that they’ll work in cleaning services, factories etc, but the jobs didn’t become a reality, the women end up in a tough financial situation and here comes the generous offer to work in a brothel. The conditions are pretty terrible and dehumanizing and not so shockingly they don’t feel protected by any laws.
The journalist behind the documentary actually admitted that she first pitched the idea as a groundbreaking documentary that might change the typical bulgarian thinking regarding sex work (like looking down on it), but in reality the end result was completely different.
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Legalise it, criminalise Pimping, regulate it.
Legalise, tax, protect sex workers from exploitation and clients from STDs.
Sex ‘work’ should be banned. Millions of women are trafficked and raped because of disgusting creeps who can’t form normal relationships or just want to abuse women.
The only reasonable approach is the New Zealand one, with complete ~~legalisation~~ decriminalisation of sex work equating it with any other job. It should be possible to do sex work in any way, in complete freedom of choice, be it on the streets, in any house/establishment (owned or rented) or as an employee to a formally established business. Everything else just encourages exploitation to different degrees.
Without prostitutes, politicians can only spend the money they steal on cocaine, but cocaine without prostitutes it doesn’t satisfies politicians.
Sex work for some, miniature EU flags for others.
Politicians hate competition.
It’s better to legalize and protect the prostitutes.
Legalize it and regulate brothels (while allowing independent women to do as they please, not feeling obligated to work in a certain way i.e at a brothel or other business that isn’t theirs). Full legalization is the way, not the nordic model (which sounds like a good idea until you realize it is extremely paternalistic/patriarchal and also doesn’t real work, and not abolitionism either. It is a women’s right to provide sexual services for whatever compensation she desires, and it is a man’s right to seek them if they are consensually provided.
Sad to see the mainstream endorsement of the commodification of vulnerable human’s bodies. Some adults chose to be sex workers, but for most it’s a choice made out of desperation or addiction.
They are split cause politicians are friends with traffickers and mafias (asian women for example) and legalising it would put them out of business.
Legalise, regulate, test.
Might get downvoted as people seem to have super sugarcoated view of the legalization of sex work, but it’s not the holy grail that it’s often portrayed as. I watched one documentary about brothels specifically in Amsterdam and it was an absolute hell for the women. Majority of them were Roma women from Bulgaria and Romania that went with the promise that they’ll work in cleaning services, factories etc, but the jobs didn’t become a reality, the women end up in a tough financial situation and here comes the generous offer to work in a brothel. The conditions are pretty terrible and dehumanizing and not so shockingly they don’t feel protected by any laws.
The journalist behind the documentary actually admitted that she first pitched the idea as a groundbreaking documentary that might change the typical bulgarian thinking regarding sex work (like looking down on it), but in reality the end result was completely different.