#anti prostitution
“Prostitution, so the weary old cliché goes, is “the oldest profession.” Many feminists, decade after decade, have protested that pimping, not prostitution, is the “profession”; in prostitution, the management class is made up of pimps and madams, and the “girls” are lowly line workers, garnering none of the benefits we associate with “professional” status. Most do not earn high wages; most have no health benefits; as a group, prostitutes certainly do not enjoy the respect accorded to “professionals” such as engineers, doctors, lawyers.”
Christine Stark and Rebecca Whisnant. Not For Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography. 2005.
“Indeed, the idea that most prostitutes are rolling in money is one of the most persistent myths about the industry. Johns want the newest, youngest girls.”
Rae Story. “Working in a New Zealand brothel was anything but ‘a job like any other.’” 2016.
Libfems like to pretend there’s a hard line between consentual sex work and trafficking and they have nothing to do with each other. But the link between sex trafficking and the above board sex industry is that there will never be enough adult, consenting sex workers to facilitate the overwhelming demand for paid sex. For instance, I read somewhere that German women (who are relatively highly educated and have a lot of social protections in place) aren’t the majority of workers in the legal German brothels. Brothels in the red light district are constantly getting busted for smuggling in trafficked women from Eastern European countries and North Africa.
The simple fact is if your female population is safe, fed, educated etc. they don’t enter the sex industry that much.But the demand for their “work” is a never ending black hole- hence: trafficking and child sex slavery. Without trafficking the legal brothels find it hard to get “staff”.
I hate that focus has always been on the supply. If you want to combat tafficking look at the demand, not the supply. Who are all these men desperate to pay for sex and why do they feel comfortable doing that when they know the person they’re purchasing from is likely socially disadvantaged at best or at worst being forced? Who are all these pople who have a vested, profit interest in making sure vulnerable populations stay vulnberable and desperate?
people act like consent is the key to doing abhorrent shit during sex but the truth is the sex is the key to giving consent to abhorent shit. if you take away sex from the equation of “what if she CONSENTS to choking and hitting and verbal abuse”, it’s without a doubt terrible and abusive. clearly the consent isn’t what’s justifying this act, it’s the sex.
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women- Asia Pacific, “Every Woman Has A Right: Not To Be Prostituted” in Off Our Backs, 2001.
My favorite quote:
“A certain stream of pro-prostitution advocates look forward to the day when all our irresistible sexual urges and needs, women’s and men’s alike, will be adequately “serviced” by commercial sex. The only problem, as Sheila Jeffreys, tongue-in-cheek has pointed out, is how to find the millions of men and boys, who will be willing to lie there and let women stick any kind and number of objects into their bodies or to let themselves be photographed in ridiculous or degrading positions!”
When people say “prostitutes have unions, they are looked after if they want to leave, they help prostitutes leave if they want to and prevent trafficking, there are people out there monitoring legal prostitution, because legal prostitution is the way to go”
Here’s a little about “prostitution unions” in Australia. If this is what occurs in a pretty privileged country, then what the fuck does it say about the rest of the world?
“They are supposed to be a support group for prostitutes, so yes, they will provide condoms and things like that. And they get government funding for that in Australia. Although there are lots of corrupt unions, I never heard of a union that works to reduce the safety of the workers, but the Scarlet Alliance is opposed to mandatory STD tests for the prostituted and johns…I think all the johns should be registered, have mandatory tests for STDs. I think they should wear labels and be listed in back-pages of newspapers, with their names in full! The Scarlet alliance opposes these restrictions, they oppose mandatory testing. And if you want to leave prostitution, they turn on you and you become the enemy. If you go to the Scarlet Alliance and tell them « I don’t want to be a prostitute anymore, help me get out », they will villify you, and they will make your life hell—like they have done to me. At least, they are trying to do that to me.You might think it’s a sweeping statement to say : « they are all pimps », but the reality is that the majority of them are in management positions. They say things like « I’m a current sex worker », and people don’t want to call them out on that because it sounds rude to ask if it is true. These so-called « sex worker unions » globally call themselves things like « Current sex workers » and project managers for « migrant sex workers ». Is there anything more revolting than that? They are in management and « work » with trafficked women is what that means. They don’t help them get out of the sex-trade because they deny sex trafficking exists in general.They have been given a voice on the round table of the National Anti-Traficking Plan of Australia—where they say that sex traficking does not exist! And they call any person traficked for sex a « sex worker » or a « migrant ». We have a huge refugee crisis here, people need admission and housing and we have a hostile government who is not willing to admit vulnerable people in the country. But the Scarlet Alliance uses this opportunity to get more people inside. Of course most of us want to help the refugees, but when the Scarlet Alliance say they want to help the refugees, they just want to get more women in Australia —and then they are going : « great, we can look like we are Left wing and humanitarian » . They oppose penalties for anyone knowingly buying or selling a trafficked human being. I mean really people, get a clue!We just had a prostituted woman who was released after being locked in a cupboard for months, she could barely breathe, she was in Victoria where prostitution is legal. And when a lot of women come here, they think they come on students’ visa, but when they arrive, they are put in decriminalized brothels in New South Wales. They think they come here to learn English, but these desperate women are deceived and brought here to join the ranks of « migrant sex workers ». These Scarlet Alliance people are so awful and vile, there are no words to convey how awful they are. The government give them money, it’s supposed to be for condoms, and for sexual health check ups for us, and things like that, but in reality, they don’t give anybody who wants to leave that. All they do is take the money to spread the idea that trafficked people are « migrant sex workers ». If you were in a country illegally, and know that your family back home will be murdered as well, what would you do? Stay and keep your mouth shut. The Scarlet Alliance take this money from the government and donations, but if you want to leave prostitution, they will turn on people like me.”
this has got to be the WORST image I have ever seen
decolonize sex work when black and brown women are more likely to be trafficked and prostituted due to racism and misogyny combined? what??
make sure your abuse of women is intersectional or you’re a racist :/
you’re delusional if you think there are any ethical ways for a woman to be sold like an object.
radical feminism is wanting the female sex to be fully liberated from male supremacy and eliminating its oppression instead of romanticizing it.
porn is filmed prostitution. i’m against porn because i’m against prostitution and i’m against prostitution because i’m against slavery.
onlyfans has really rotted men’s minds into believing its ok to ask any woman for nudes as long as you offer financial compensation in return. the world is not your brothel
“where prostitution is legal, sexual harassment is seen as a job offer”
Look at those professions. They’re not society’s outcasts. They’re men that many women might work for or buy a service from. Never forget that
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thread from ContrarianQuinn on Twitter about her experience in the sex industry, you can read the rest here