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Gene Wilder 1933 – 2016

I don’t know how many ways I can say it

but calling all sex work rape, is like calling all cleaning slavery, or all farming human trafficking. No one is denying it happens, no one is denying a lot of people don’t enjoy their work. But people need jobs, they need an income and letting ignorant stigmas inform your opinions of a whole industry you try and take away people’s livelihoods.

I’m having trouble articulating it, but at the end of the day, decriminalising sex work does not decriminalise sex trafficking and trafficking is a whole lot easier to spot when workers are able to openly say they are doing sex work by choice without fearing legal and social implications.

Essentially, sitting around offended and perpetuating whorephobia helps absolutely no one.

smartassmisanthrope-deactivated

Legalizing and regulating can help stop abuse of prostitutes, helps identify child prostitutes (by having prostitutes register with a birth certificate to prove they’re 18+), and could provide healthcare and clean sterile places to do their work.

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We do not like being referred to as prostitutes, as you can see in my post above we prefer the term sex workers - or to be more specific full service sex workers, and decriminalisation is a much more popular choice than legalisation with us. Please do not use my post to spread information that does not help us.

misscherrylikesthediscourse

Creating a register of sex works with copies of their birth certificates is really dangerous and awful. Germany is planning this by the way and a lot of people already say that they’re gonna roll the dice rather than expose themselves to statist violence and blackmailing attempts by awful clerks and law enforcement.

mashingitlikegailthesnail-blog

Why are non sex workers so fixated on introducing the Great & Official Government Hooker List as like, THE BEST way to make the sex industry safer? Usually accompanied by restricting sex work to specific red light districts & mandatory STI tests for workers (but not clients, because clients get to be members of the community who deserve safety/privacy & not just potential disease spreaders).

feministwhore-blog

A couple of times I’ve responded on twitter to ppl who say ‘legalize and regulate’ by using the medical marijuana model where buyers have to put themselves on a list. Basically saying: “yeah, maybe regulation would work if anyone who wanted to avail themselves of the services of a sex worker had to get an official government approved card like ppl have to get a card to buy weed” and it’s amazing how many people would land in my mentions earnestly explaining to me how something like that wouldn’t work because nobody will want to have their names on that list. And it’s like, of course it won’t work, and it won’t work the other way around either where only service providers would be having to be put on a list. It was so annoying how people actually thought I was genuinely suggesting a buyers-list, they didn’t catch on that I was really just trying to show them the flaw in the sellers-list plan. Really the amount of people who can immediately see the problem with expecting buyers to get on a list but who can’t see the problem with expecting sellers to get on a list.

It really laid bare how some people (pple who claimed to care about the safety of sex workers!!) consider sellers deserving of less thoughtful consideration than buyers, like there’s a general thought process of: “well you’re selling sex, so really why would you even care about privacy and boundaries and stuff, it makes sense for buyers to be concerned about such things cause they have families and reputations and stuff, but you? a prostitute? why would you even care or expect other people to care?”