What’s the reason or purpose that prostitution is illegal? Is it disease? The true fact is: most sexual diseases are horrible? Yes, that’s part of it. What’s the rest of it? Keeping woman down? Yes, that’s part of it too. Forcing people to be moral? Yes. Should sex be a concern of the government? How does that work?
analysis in The Lancet predicted that “decriminalization of sex work could have the largest effect on the course of the H.I.V. epidemic,” by increasing access to condoms and medical treatment. Governments can free themselves to crack down on trafficking and under-age prostitution, human rights advocates argue, if they stop arresting consenting adults.
It’s a pragmatic argument. But the sex-workers’ movement also hinges on an ideological conviction — the belief that the criminal law should not be used here as an instrument of punishment or shame, because sex work isn’t inherently immoral or demeaning. It can even be authentically feminist. “Once you’ve done it, you always know: When it comes down to it, I have everything I need to survive,” says Anna Saini, a former sex worker who is now a sex-worker activist and law student living in Brooklyn. “That’s powerful.” This view poses a deep challenge to traditional Western feminism, which treats the commercial sex industry as an ugly source of sexual inequality. the New York Times has a very unclear article on it HERE.
So far there have been many attempts at answers but no answer about what is to be done. But it’s 2019. Surely the dangers should have been solved by now but it’s impossible to solve all of them. It’s an extremely complex set of issues. One thing is certain. No girl or woman should ever be in danger because of it.
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