Do sex workers deserve to be named and shamed in the media?

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Irish tabloid SundayWorldNewspaper has posted a video showing a sex worker's face and address. The reporter pretends to be a client but goes in with a hidden camera.

twitter.com/AlisandeF/status/308165744452046849

Not the sex workers but those who run them should be named and shamed

And the clients.

So why isn't there an outrage when innocent sex workers are exposed by the media for no reason other than they are sex workers?

www.facebook.com/sundayworld1

"Don't miss tomorrow's Sunday World as we reveal the nanny and cleaner who moonlights as a city centre prostitute."

"But women are considered fair game aren't they? Not fully human, especially the 'fallen' ones. "

Maybe some think sex workers aren't human and need to be named and shamed.

[email protected]

That's their email if anyone wants to complain

No of course they don't.
Good grief.

I was expecting you all to have a different response. This is a feminist board isn't it?

Why would feminists deride sex workers?

Why were you expecting a different response?

Feminists have a range of views about prostitution and other types of work in the sex industry, in the sense of whether it is damaging to society / women as a group etc.

Whatever their view though, feminists would never condemn the women (and others) working at the sharp end of this industry, seeking instead to condemn the societal structures, laws, pimps and so on who allow it all to happen.

storify.com/itsjustahobby/sex-workers-speak-whenantisattack

What does that last link have to do with us or the rest of this thread? I don't even understand what it is about in fact.

The last link I posted is about sex workers revealing some of the abuse they have to put up with, not from clients but from those who oppose sex work.

For example one of them had dog shit put through her letterbox.

Any other MNers getting a sense of deja vu here or is it just me.

Again, what has that got to do with us or your original point of the thread?

The "anti sex work" people who are being talked about on your second link, for attacking sex workers, are pretty likely to be coming from a religious, right wing type perspective, rather than a feminist perspective.

Not it's not just you Darkesteyes.

Feminists may oppose sex work, but they don't oppose sex workers as women, as human beings. The industry is appalling, but the women in it are rarely there out of free and open choice. So no, they do not deserve anything except understanding and support.

Yeah, me too, but I don't understand why this discussion has been closed down (at least twice) before. Sex workers do recieve abuse for doing what they do, why is it not up for discussion?

@Trekkie, perhaps. But not always...

www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/05/hatred-prostitutes-feminists-brutality

OK x posted now I am confused.

There was a website set up in the US "naming and shaming" sex workers, including their addresses and phone numbers. That is the sort of thing you are talking about, I think.

However it was not set up by feminists, it was set up by men. Horrible men who wanted to hurt women.