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In reply to the discussion: What are the main reasons men pay for sex? [View all]johnlucas
(1,250 posts)And the reason why that is I believe is because these countries benefit from it.
The U.S. has spent the most money of all the countries to combat human trafficking but that number is only $100 million.
That's baby food. They're not serious about it. Nobody's serious about it.
They benefit from this slavery, that's why.
I read the blog of a real-life former prostitute The Honest Courtesan & she says the anti-prostitution proponents are actually HURTING people with their anti stance.
Read that blog. You'll find a point of view you haven't heard ANYWHERE.
They are DEFINITELY the words of somebody who lived the life & can speak from experience on what the issues are.
I didn't know ANYTHING about the life of prostitute so I shut my mouth & just listened to these articles she wrote.
It's not hard to tell that these are honest articles telling the TRUE story of this trade lived from experience.
She had an article talking about prostitutes in India actually PROTESTING the anti-prostitution calvacade!
Sex Worker Rights Day
The key is looking at sex workers just like any other worker.
Workplace protections & enforcement of those protections.
Yes, Squinch, prostitutes are just as much a part of Worker's Rights as coal miners & truckers are.
It's a classic labor issue like every other.
Keeping it illegal keeps it in the shadows where more people get abused.
Stopping trafficking is not very hard.
The numbers given seem to be low in my opinion but it's said that 20 to 30 million people are trafficked worldwide.
How hard is it REALLY to stop the trafficking of 20 to 30 million people in a world of 7 billion+?
No nation is serious about stopping it, that's why it persists.
Just like anything you shine the spotlight on it & the cockroaches disappear.
Yavin4 brings up the point that human trafficking goes MUCH further than in sex work but nobody seems to care about these issues because there's no sexual component to the story.
The farms, hotels, nail salons, restaurants trafficking men, women, AND children for exploitative labor.
Shine the spotlight on it, enforce the protections, & it cleans up.
It IS that simple.
Every prostitute is not a victim waiting to be saved.
What they need is recognizance of their trade as a legitimate workers' rights issue so that the criminal element can be excised out of the business.
Don't take my word for it. Talk to this actual prostitute who actually lived the life.
Start with these posts right here.
Sex Work Is Work
More Harm Than Good
International Sex Worker Rights Day
First They Came for the Hookers...
Hell read 'em all!
Index
Choice quotes posted in her articles:
For all the talk about women involved in the sex industry as victims, there is no apparent appetite for actually speaking with them in order to assess what the real issues are. Graham Ellison
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Sex work can be dangerous; but those dangers are exacerbated, or in many cases even created, by criminalisation. Jean Urquhart
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Sex worker rights are human rights, and there can never be too many voices speaking up for them, nor too many occasions on which to speak.
Maggie McNeill
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By the way a woman from the UK named Jean Urqhart, a member of the Scottish Parliament, pushed for the decriminalization of sex work to improve safety & reduce stigma.
See what you find out when you stop running on a preset narrative?
The Temperance Movement meant well too & it led to Al Capones & crime syndicates running wild all over the country.
13 years (1920-1933) & they had to cancel that 18th Amendment with the 21st.
Enforce protections for the women in the trade like you do workers in any other field.
That's what solves the problem.
Prohibition movements just don't work.
John Lucas