Prostitution: why Swedes believe they got it right (targeting the men who pay for sex)

[LadyHawkAZ]

146. Of course you do, bless your manly heart

Thus putting us wimmenz in the same category as small children who commit crimes, because wimmenz don't have agency and stuff. Funny how you keep referring only to women, over and over and over and over- males in sex work are, of course, complicit because men can consent. Actually no, that's not funny at all.

People have worked very hard for a long, long time to make sure that promiscuity, not just for money but in all situations, is as harmful as possible, mentally and physically. It's called slut-shaming. Categorizing them as incompetent children, broken, damaged, dirty, ruined, fucked in the head, and generally in need of more virtuous guidance (or appropriate punishment) from more virtuous adults is slut-shaming. Criminalizing the most egregious offenders and ensuring that they must work in highly dangerous conditions without oversight, basic safety rules or access to legal redress, with society hurling the above slut-shaming insults at them all the while, is where psychological and physical damage comes from. Criminalization advocates have created the very problems that they tout further criminalization to solve. This is rooted in male supremacy and misogyny. For a good measurement of how deep those roots run, look how many people are still pushing the Swedish model like a bad batch of synthetic heroin, in spite of the fact that the Swedish numbers, the Swedish workers, and even the UN all point directly to higher rates of risk, violence and trafficking.

If you had to go to work in those conditions every day, one of two things would happen. If your mind is strong, you'd be just as up in arms as I am; if it's not, you'd get broken and wind up FITH. The work itself, without the disapproval piled on it by social misogyny? Not a big deal.

I suppose we're all supposed to be grateful that it eliminates the jail option, though. Here, have this crumb, and forget about those basic rights, you don't need those, we'll take care of you, trust us... Yeah, that always ends well.

I'm pretty sure you know all this already. It's been said enough times. Support it if you like, that's up to you, but this pretense that it's all about saving the precious women from misogyny is ridiculous.