Corbyn - "I'm in favour of decriminalising the sex industry"

Oh great. It's an argument that gets trotted out a lot by lefties. Let's "protect" women who sell sex, by keeping them in nice safe government regulated brothels/red Iight areas...when the outcome of that is sanctioning the use of prostitutes.. making it respectable almost. And the men who suggest it often strike me as the sort who might quite fancy making use of that..
The fact is that the vast majority of prostitutes are victims of child abuse (in fact, I have never met a sex worker of any kind that wasn't abused in some way as a child , and I've met lots) and many are drug addicts.
They need help, not government sanctioned places for them to continue to be abused.

Perhaps JC thinks the mess that is going on in Germany is civilised.

Let’s do things a bit differently and in a bit more civilised way.

I had no idea that the buying of women's and girls' bodies could be done in a "civilised" way. How enlightening to know that Jeremy Corbyn thinks so .

SeaRabbit, prostitutes are not looked down on because they're committing a crime though are they? They're looked down upon because they are prostitutes. Women are looked down upon anyway, women who have a lot of sex are viewed worse, then these ones are available for any sex at a price, that's why they're looked down upon. Decriminalisation will not change that in the slightest. If anything it will 'justify' those buying sex and give them a green light to behave in worse ways still towards this sub-group and women in general.

As is traditional on these threads, against criticism of the Nordic model, I give you... the complete mess that is the German decriminalisation, with women trafficked freely and treated appallingly.

Corbyn's made it pretty clear from the get-go that women's rights are at about the same level on his to-do list as building a better mousetrap. This doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

Totally agree with PalmerViolet and IndominusRex.

Yes it should have always been those buying that should be targeted.

I think I agree with him - I fear we have to accept that there always been prostitution, and that there will be for the foreseeable future. I wish it were not the case.

The fact that women who solicit on the street are committing a crime means that they are looked down upon - they don't get protection when they are incredibly vulnerable. They are described as 'prostitutes'(eg when there is a murder) as though that means they have lesser rights than other people - that really sticks in my craw. The truly awful aspects, such as pimping and trafficking would still be crimes.

Not surprised. Just sad that he thinks that there is a 'civilised' way of exploiting women and girls for the gratification of men.

Oh for f.... sake..he was the one mainstream politician that I had a smidgen of respect for. Should have known better