clarawebbwillcutoffyourhead: alligatorsohmy: What is this law about? It’s the Swedish model/No

clarawebbwillcutoffyourhead:

alligatorsohmy:

What is this law about?

It’s the Swedish model/Nordic model/End Demand set of laws that criminalises the “purchase” of sex but not the actual service provider so prohibitionists love to say that it’s the perfect answer for prostitution: swers don’t get arrested, only johns!
conveniently forgetting that

a) sex workers rely on these men to keep shelter around us, food in our stomaches, childcare and bills paid, and on and on and on. If these men are scared to go to sex workers, WHERE DO WE GET OUR MONEY?
b) they criminalise virtually everything else around the sale of sex, giving rise to the above cited situation or a case currently beginning to wind thru Oregon courts where two women are being tried for trafficking EACH OTHER because they planned an out of state work trip.
b1) they also criminalise landlords for renting to sex workers, leaving us vulnerable to eviction.
b2) being party to a crime still leaves one vulnerable to arrest which makes exiting the biz even harder, as one arrested sex worker [who went on 8 minutes to try and get support leaving the industry, only to find that support as intangible as it always is, and then got arrested bc 8 minutes didn’t protect her identity and at still needed to feed her kids and so got arrested AND NOW CANT GET A JOB] discovered after trying to get herself rescued.
c) don’t fucking rescue sex workers. Give us money and let us rescue our damn selves.