Re:My work as a prostitute led me to oppose decriminalisation
by s4vi0r on Monday October 02, 2017 @04:34AM
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No, prostitution and pornography condition society to see sex workers (20% of them are Male, and likely a significant portion transgendered as well. Thought it was interesting that you only mentioned women) as workers, which is what they are. The argument against legalized prostitution is ridiculous.
Prostitution will always be around - there's no benefit to leaving sex workers to live in the shadows. If you legalize the industry - and not just the workers - you can have at least some amount of control over the health, safety, and quality of workers, employers and clients. By legalizing the industry you also help to normalize sex, which is IMO on way too high of a pedestal in most societies. Sex workers are perceived the way they are largely because of how "sacred" sex is - if you take that power away from sex, then you remove this stigma of sex workers being objectified or somehow less than others because of how they make their living.
Prostitution will always be around - there's no benefit to leaving sex workers to live in the shadows. If you legalize the industry - and not just the workers - you can have at least some amount of control over the health, safety, and quality of workers, employers and clients. By legalizing the industry you also help to normalize sex, which is IMO on way too high of a pedestal in most societies. Sex workers are perceived the way they are largely because of how "sacred" sex is - if you take that power away from sex, then you remove this stigma of sex workers being objectified or somehow less than others because of how they make their living.