How is it possible to be a feminist and support the sex industry?

[Molesworth]

I've just been reading this article from the guardian. Young girls are being sold to brothel keepers and made to take steroids so that they look older than they really are.

All my instincts say that the sex industry is just plain wrong. I know some feminists think it's OK (although obviously they wouldn't support practices like those described in the article). Are there any sex industry supporting feminists here? What's the rationale?

No, I'm glad you posted the link to Rebecca Mott's blog here FF. As you already said, it's incredibly important that the voices of women like Rebecca are heard in this debate.

I think apathy is the key word here. That's shocking about the police's lack of interest StepAside, but it doesn't really suprise me. I've been called a man-hater on this thread by women in a feminist section of a mother's website for arguing strongly against prostitution. God knows what kind of apathy you'd get in the real world. Really good to hear that you're doing something about it though, or trying to. THis thread has really made me want to start being an activist or something!

I think it is only the deluded that would think the sex industry is alright and a matter or choice/empowerment for women.

I am finding the feminist section frustrating, because so many people are coming on and posting who are not feminists. I don't know why that should be. Atheists don't go and disrupt threads in the spirituality section, and pig owners don't keep going on to chicken keeping threads to argue that people should keep pigs instead. So why are so many people who are not feminists coming on to this section? Why don't they start a thread in AIBU instead?

MillyR - Your point would probably be best started as an AIBU thread so it can be discussed/argued properly.

MillyR: isnt the issue here that women who consider themselves to be feminists are telling other women who consider themselves to be feminists that they are not feminists? Or have I missed the bit where all the whores on this thread run on and announce that they are not feminists?

All very confusing for my head really.

Was wracking my brains trying to remember the sub section of feminism that the whores on this thread seem to be extoling-it's sex postive feminism.

Personally without having strong feelings either was about women who make the choice to go into prostitution; I think it is really rude of people to dismiss them as trolls;-just as bad as men calling feminists per se 'man haters'

should read "either way"

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