Re:Stamping Out Online Sex Trafficking May Have Pushed It Un...
by jessaustin on Thursday December 19, 2019 @06:53AM
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Your numbers confirm rather than refute parent's hypothesis. Prostitutes sell what men want more cheaply than other women sell it. Some other women disapprove. Some portion of those other women are feminists.
Re:Stamping Out Online Sex Trafficking May Have Pushed It Un...
by gruturo on Thursday December 19, 2019 @07:20AM
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You could frame this a some kind of regulatory capture by the current monopolists.
Re:Stamping Out Online Sex Trafficking May Have Pushed It Un...
by apatters on Thursday December 19, 2019 @07:58AM
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YouGov's numbers neither confirm nor refute the parent's hypothesis because women and feminists are not the same thing.
No evidence has been presented to support the parent's anecdotal belief about what feminists think. I have spoken to plenty of feminists over the years and have found them to be split pretty evenly over this issue. My point was that the opposition to legalizing sex work is mostly from females, and may or may not be from feminists (whatever that word even means in 2020).
A poll by YouGov in 2016 found that Republicans were 7% more likely than Democrats to believe sex work should remain illegal: https://www.vox.com/2016/3/11/11203740/prostitution-legal-me...
But the real gap was between the genders. Women were 14% more likely to say sex work should be illegal than men. They were also 18% more likely to say it's immoral.
Now what "feminists" think is another question, I doubt that has been studied, and that term means a lot of things to a lot of people. But according to the polls the majority of the opposition in the US to legalizing and tolerating sex work comes from women, regardless of their political orientation.
One can extrapolate that electing more women would lead to harsher laws about sex work and indeed both have happened in the past decade.