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NUS and prostitution - confused...

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Ubik1 · 26/03/2015 19:41

They seem to haves passed a motion which holds anyone who thinks the Nordic model of managing prostitution is the preserve of right wing radical feminists.

I'm confused. I don't know much about sex work but I do know it is linked to trafficking of women and children and organised crime. I would be delighted if men were criminalised - but maybe I'm wrong?

Here's the motion but you might not be able to view it...

NUS and prostitution - confused...
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Ubik1 · 28/03/2015 15:24

I think you are overreacting slightly lazocutor

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Ubik1 · 28/03/2015 15:23

Someone thought bumsnet were a bunch of anti-choice radical feminists who team up with religious idiots? Never!

Eh? Confused

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lazocutor · 28/03/2015 15:23

I'm just curious why radical feminists think they have the right to tell other women what they can and cannot do.

lazocutor · 28/03/2015 15:22

And what makes you think YOU have the right to decide whether other adult women should be able to make money by selling sex or not??

BuffyEpistemiwhatsit · 28/03/2015 15:20

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lazocutor · 28/03/2015 15:19

"It says 6% of students resort to doing it. Doesn't that mean around 11-12% of female students, given how gendered it is?"

It's not as gendered as you think. Almost a third of active escorts on adultwork are male.

lazocutor · 28/03/2015 15:16

I guess radical feminists (i.e., you lot) don't agree with #7 on the first part of that list?

  1. The right of consenting adults to engage in sexual relations is of no business to anyone but the people involved.
lazocutor · 28/03/2015 15:14

Someone thought bumsnet were a bunch of anti-choice radical feminists who team up with religious idiots? Never!

ChopperGordino · 28/03/2015 09:01

I did an art and war module nearly ten years ago and the lecturer said at the start of the module that we were going to see and talk about some deeply upsetting things, all of which had been chosen as necessary and important for our learning and development, and none of it gratuitous, and if any of us felt that we needed to talk to her privately about our responses then we should feel able to do so. It was the equivalent of a trigger warning, but she wouldn't have done it for every image or topic we discussed.

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Ubik1 · 28/03/2015 08:46

So do lecturers put warnings on lecture notes now?

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TheBlackRider · 27/03/2015 21:30

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ChopperGordino · 27/03/2015 20:59

Indeed. The NUS saying "it's just a job/career like any other" is at best naive and at worst harmful

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TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 27/03/2015 20:49

I read the research paper. It was qualitative research with a small self-selected sample and the numbers really can't be extrapolated from it.

TheBlackRider · 27/03/2015 20:44

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ChopperGordino · 27/03/2015 20:35

God. The outcome of the study that the article mentions (linked above) has similar comments, but not in such detail.

TheBlackRider · 27/03/2015 20:26

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