Comments on: Sex Worker Rights Are Human Rights http://www.roguereverend.com/2009/08/sex-worker-rights-are-human-rights/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sex-worker-rights-are-human-rights watch out for lightning Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:16:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Lia http://www.roguereverend.com/2009/08/sex-worker-rights-are-human-rights/#comment-205 Lia Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:26:44 +0000 http://www.roguereverend.com/?p=307#comment-205 Jay, I agree that anyone who coerces sex workers should be prosecuted. But why not use sex workers to root out those who are forcing people into sex work? Sex workers, too, believe that no one should be in sex work who doesn't want to be in sex work. But decriminalized prostitution opens it up to the same labor laws that everybody else has. You can't FORCE someone to work at McDonald's. That's slavery. Same with sex work. Also, definitions of pimping have to be modified. Is managing a sex worker (a madam?) pimping? It's certainly profiting off of someone else's sex work... Thanks for the comment. It's a woman's right NOT to be in fear at work. Jay, I agree that anyone who coerces sex workers should be prosecuted. But why not use sex workers to root out those who are forcing people into sex work? Sex workers, too, believe that no one should be in sex work who doesn’t want to be in sex work.

But decriminalized prostitution opens it up to the same labor laws that everybody else has. You can’t FORCE someone to work at McDonald’s. That’s slavery. Same with sex work.

Also, definitions of pimping have to be modified. Is managing a sex worker (a madam?) pimping? It’s certainly profiting off of someone else’s sex work…

Thanks for the comment.

It’s a woman’s right NOT to be in fear at work.

]]> By: Jay http://www.roguereverend.com/2009/08/sex-worker-rights-are-human-rights/#comment-204 Jay Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:17:18 +0000 http://www.roguereverend.com/?p=307#comment-204 Just to clarify...! Decriminalizing prostitution only protects women IF paired with jacked-up prosecution of pimps and traffickers. Otherwise, legalized prostitution gives pimps a competitive advantage...no taxation, no registration, no STD checks. Not to mention that extra demand means more girls trafficked (currently, 4 illegal brothels for every legal one) It's a woman's human right NOT to be prostituted. Just to clarify…!

Decriminalizing prostitution only protects women IF paired with jacked-up prosecution of pimps and traffickers.

Otherwise, legalized prostitution gives pimps a competitive advantage…no taxation, no registration, no STD checks. Not to mention that extra demand means more girls trafficked (currently, 4 illegal brothels for every legal one)

It’s a woman’s human right NOT to be prostituted.

]]> By: BhamDavid http://www.roguereverend.com/2009/08/sex-worker-rights-are-human-rights/#comment-193 BhamDavid Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:17:02 +0000 http://www.roguereverend.com/?p=307#comment-193 Two of my closest friends are sex workers and are possibly the nicest two guys I know. It is enraging when I watch people who learn what they do begin to form judgments based solely on their personal presuppositions about sex workers, rather than taking the time to get to know them and discover that they are no different, that work is work. I wouldn't trade my friendship with them for anything. I count myself incredibly fortunate to know them both. Two of my closest friends are sex workers and are possibly the nicest two guys I know. It is enraging when I watch people who learn what they do begin to form judgments based solely on their personal presuppositions about sex workers, rather than taking the time to get to know them and discover that they are no different, that work is work. I wouldn’t trade my friendship with them for anything. I count myself incredibly fortunate to know them both.

]]> By: ohslowburn http://www.roguereverend.com/2009/08/sex-worker-rights-are-human-rights/#comment-188 ohslowburn Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:45:54 +0000 http://www.roguereverend.com/?p=307#comment-188 Thank you for writing this. It's sad that some of this has to be pointed out, including the basic human kindnesses in what you ask us to presume at the end of your post. But it does. Thank you for writing this. It’s sad that some of this has to be pointed out, including the basic human kindnesses in what you ask us to presume at the end of your post. But it does.

]]> By: Songbird http://www.roguereverend.com/2009/08/sex-worker-rights-are-human-rights/#comment-187 Songbird Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:58:17 +0000 http://www.roguereverend.com/?p=307#comment-187 That news story is heart-sickening. What a terrible, terrible way to die, alone and undiscovered. That news story is heart-sickening. What a terrible, terrible way to die, alone and undiscovered.

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