Bennachie refers to trafficked women as 'migrant sex workers' .
He is also claims that there are no trafficked women being prostituted in New Zealand.
He is a knob with an undisclosed agenda.
Farley's agenda is perfectly clear - she is anti the institution of prostitution as she perceives it to be gendered violence against women and children and a human rights travesty. She is always extremely transparent about her position and agenda www.prostitutionresearch.com/
Good link GothAnne - thanks. I particularly liked these bits;
?To be able to defend that women sell their bodies (and that men buy them) one must first abolish the victim and instead redefine the prostitute as a sex worker, a strong woman who knows what she wants, a businesswoman. The sex worker becomes a sort of new version of the ?happy hooker?.
?Ekis Ekman shows in a convincing way how this happens through a rhetoric which portrays the victim position as a trait of character instead of using the correct definition of a victim: someone who is affected by something. In such a way the terrible reality in which women in prostitution find themselves is concealed. The fear of the ?victim? in the prostitution debate ? is something which mirrors neo-liberalism?s general victim hate ? since all talk of the vulnerable person immediately reveals an unjust society. Through making the victim taboo can one legitimise class inequalities and gender discrimination, for if there is no victim there is no perpetrator.?
Fiction of unions for ?sex workers?
The International Union of Sex Workers (IUSW), for example, which is affiliated to the GMB and has spoken at conferences of the Labour Party and the Green Party, is run by a man called Douglas Fox. Fox claims to be a ?sex worker? and accuses radical feminists of being big meanies out to silence him. Yet on closer inspection it becomes clear that Mr Fox is a liar. Sex worker he most certainly is not, rather he is a pimp who runs one of the UK?s largest escort firms. The IUSW?s membership, you see, is open to anyone, to pimps, to men who buy sex, to sympathetic academics. Of its minute membership of 150 (which compares to the 100,000 plus women and men who work in the UK?s sex industry) only a tiny minority are actual prostitutes. It?s the same all over Europe where similar organisations exist (such as ?de Rode Draad? in the Netherlands) ? their membership is tiny, most aren?t even prostitutes, and they have never succeeded in pushing any independent union demands.
Those who support prostitution though have of course never been ones for the facts. We see this idea of ?unions? coming from both the left and the right because it?s convenient, it gives prostitution a certain false legitimacy. It doesn?t work and it never will work, but it successfully diverts attention away from the deeper questions around prostitution and why it exists in our society.