To think its good for them

AmpleMintHam · 2024-12-01T17:09:45+00:00

good for them getting maternity leave and pensions - [[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ygn31ypdlo Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law - BBC News]]

MyrtleStrumpet · 01/12/2024 19:14

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 01/12/2024 18:24

Critics say the trade causes trafficking, exploitation and abuse - which this law will not prevent.“It is dangerous because it normalises a profession that is always violent at its core,” says Julia Crumière, a volunteer with Isala - an NGO that helps sex workers on the streets in Belgium.I voted YABU. It's yet another attempt to normalise "the sex industry"

This.

Sex work is not work. It's exploitation.

Regalrosie · 01/12/2024 18:26

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 01/12/2024 18:24

Critics say the trade causes trafficking, exploitation and abuse - which this law will not prevent.“It is dangerous because it normalises a profession that is always violent at its core,” says Julia Crumière, a volunteer with Isala - an NGO that helps sex workers on the streets in Belgium.I voted YABU. It's yet another attempt to normalise "the sex industry"

I agree with your point but the reality is that it’s happening and will continue to happen all the time that these vile men pay for sex.

These women need maternity rights, so they aren’t having to sleep with men when 9 months pregnant.

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 01/12/2024 18:24

Critics say the trade causes trafficking, exploitation and abuse - which this law will not prevent.“It is dangerous because it normalises a profession that is always violent at its core,” says Julia Crumière, a volunteer with Isala - an NGO that helps sex workers on the streets in Belgium.I voted YABU. It's yet another attempt to normalise "the sex industry"

ComtesseDeSpair · 01/12/2024 17:45

The article was a bit unclear. I’d presume that any employed worker, sex or otherwise, already has a legal right to particular benefits through their employer; but isn’t the problem that most sex workers are (by choice) contractors or self employed, and therefore not eligible for the benefits available to employed people? What change will this new law make to them?

PoissonOfTheChrist · 01/12/2024 17:45

Were the men forcing her?

I don't fucking care if they forced her or not. It's absolutely sick for a man to pay to have sex with a 9 months pregnant woman.

Ytcsghisn · 01/12/2024 17:39

PoissonOfTheChrist · 01/12/2024 17:14

“I had to work while I was nine months pregnant,” says Sophie, a sex worker in Belgium. “I was having sex with clients one week before giving birth.”

JFC men are awful.

Were the men forcing her?

Ytcsghisn · 01/12/2024 17:39

Who is paying for it? Do they pay tax?

BobbyBiscuits · 01/12/2024 17:36

Good. There's no way it's appropriate to have to do that type of thing heavily pregnant. I would sincerely hope they might be able to break away from the industry once they've got children to think about. But I guess the money is too tempting, if the poor woman hadn't many qualifications and that's all they know. I hope there is specific support for mothers who are sex workers also.

Original poster

AmpleMintHam · 01/12/2024 17:33

good for them

OP posts:

PoissonOfTheChrist · 01/12/2024 17:14

“I had to work while I was nine months pregnant,” says Sophie, a sex worker in Belgium. “I was having sex with clients one week before giving birth.”

JFC men are awful.