Feminists want to legalise child prostitution

This is dreadful. Wtf is is going on? The world is inside out 🙈

I think that is the FeMANist position rather than the Feminist one. Just FYI, there is no feminist or tenet of feminism that endorses the rape torture and abuse of children, or women or men for that matter.

@Annewilko4

Yet another article referring to the new bill as progress. It’s literally just taken away safety measures put in place by sex workers themselves as I said previously. Trafficking doesn’t need the internet, it’s easy to abuse children without it. Whereas conducting voluntary sex work safely is now becoming near on impossible as there’s no way to screen the people you’re meeting and it’s making women more vulnerable by putting them back on street corners.

Sex worker / prostitute / hooker whatever.
I called myself a hooker when I worked.

No one is convinced that any of these things are different from each other and the demand to be called a "sex worker because it's just work" completely undermines the truth about the work.

It's propaganda.

Nordic Model is the criminalisation of punters not prostitutes

Have a look at this. People are very angry and there is plenty of information if you look.

www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/public-safety/theres-virtually-no-such-thing-as-voluntary-sex-work-says-da/

Happy there is nothing in that article tgat suggests the problems those prostitutes had in Oslo would be any different under decriminalization. Decriminalization isn't going to remove any stigma about prostitution at all.

@DJLippy

Well because despite common belief we are actually still people and we even have feelings. Prostitute still is rooted in stigma and implies coercion etc. Sex work is much more neutral and although it can still be used to describe those that are trafficked it also allows room for those who choose to work in the sex industry and don’t feel like a slur being hurled at them when someone thinks prostitute is just the standard term.

@FermatsTheorem

Although I don’t agree with you on that point, let’s say you were even right. The vast majority of sex workers agree with roughly the exact same arguments as amnesty put forward. It’s representative of us, just because it makes you uncomfortable doesn’t make it wrong.

Actually we do want to be called sex workers over whores/prostitutes (both used extremely derogatorily). Do you also object to gay people not wanting to be called fags or homos? It’s not much of an ask.

Amnesty was basically taken over on this issue by one of the richest pornographers and pimps in the UK who likes to pretend he's a"sex worker" - funnily enough that seems fairly characteristic of so called grass roots sex worker organisations. When you dig closely they tend to be run by and for pimps.

I'm almost inclined to argue even the words child prostitution normalises what is actually child rape.

Also there’s an entire hugely vocal community. The problem is sex workers aren’t politicians or public figures so their voices aren’t heard everywhere like some, as apparently speaking up about a profession is more obscene nowadays than backing drugs. It doesn’t mean they don’t do what they can.

@merrymouse

Hey! Hi merry mouse, I’m one of those non existent happy sex workers you speak of! Sorry we’re a bit quiet when people only want to shout over us and tell us that they know better about what laws are good for us.

www.thenation.com/article/amnesty-international-calls-for-an-end-to-the-nordic-model-of-criminalizing-sex-workers/

An article that quite detailedly explains the issues of the Nordic Model and why amnesty international has stepped up against it. Of course it’s not as bad as criminalization, nowhere near so, but it doesn’t provide the quick solution people think it does.

Where are all the happy sex workers?

Plenty of people are vocal about their medical and social use of marijuana. Happy prostitutes seem to be much quieter.

"Feminists" want to legalise child rape ? I know we live in an era where words are losing all meaning but this makes as much sense as "Christians who don't believe in Jesus but make ritual animal sacrifices to Odin instead". It's no basis for discussion to twist the definition in such a terrible fashion.

America is an absolute disgrace when it comes to prostitution.
The law does indeed make it impossible for a prostitute to come forward even after she has been beaten and raped without a condom or whatever because she'll only get arrested. It needs to be at the very least decriminalised for the worker across the continent.

I'm really not getting from that article that all Liberal feminists want to legalise child prostitution.

But weirdly in America you can still marry child brides, 200,000 children have married in America in the past 15 years, so I wouldn't put it past them.

Liberal feminists here in the UK are sometimes but not always pro sex work but I think because that view is backed by the blokes it gets promoted.

The tem SWERF is just daft and is used by the exact same demographic who use terf and care about pronouns. That insane NUS guide was written by this demographic. Clueless. WTF are our universities "teaching" anymore!!

People knowledgeable about the sex trade understand it's complexity and would never ever support criminalising a 15 year old for her work in prostitution.

@FermatsTheorem

Umm well I guess no need to argue that then as that’s pretty much exactly what’s in place in the UK...

Still seems to be pretty rife with child abuse and sex worker murder as you all have kindly pointed out though.