I feel very uncomfortable with prostitution. Many women in the sex trade are little more than girls and are incredibly vunerable. I don't think its something people choose to do as a career choice. I don't agree with legalisation, but I would like the law to punish the johns/ clients/ pimps rather than the prostitutes themselves.
Me, too. The prostitutes themselves are not the cause of the whole system. That's why I am in favour of the Swedish model, that also includes help to get out of prostitution, etc.
I hope that the right for a prostitute to say "no" to a paying client is greater than the rights of black, disabled, bisexual, relgious people have to access services with out unfair discrimination.
Well, yeah. The notion of sex as "service" is utter bullshit for a variety of reasons. If "sex work" was treated like any actual job, it would have to be banned simply because of the risks the "sex workers" are routinely exposed to.
STDs, including cervical cancer (through HPV), pregnancy, rape ... if all that was treated as work accident, they wouldn't be able to get insurance.
However, as we write, the right of lesbians to say "no" to men is already being eroded by the translobby. (Sorry. I know people are annoyed with the trans threads, but it is one of the biggest problems at the moment) They use "cotton ceiling" to imply that lesbians who won't let men into their panties are "transphobic".
The existence of prostitution, legal or not, certainly contributes to men's feeling or entitlement to women's bodies.