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Making it illegal harms female autonomy. They become victims of their pimps. Pimping is much harder to prove than prostitution. When it is illegal, it is usuall

by Mz 10y ago

Making it illegal harms female autonomy. They become victims of their pimps. Pimping is much harder to prove than prostitution. When it is illegal, it is usually the women who are hurt by it. I will add that there is nothing inherently gendered about sex work. Your assumption that it must be a male customer and female sex worker is problematic and, itself, biased.

Chris2048 10y ago
Strange this gets labelled 'autonomy' when every other law in the books restricts human autonomy just as much. > They become victims of their pimps This is a tangent to the illegality of prostitution itself. > here is nothing inherently gendered about sex work In absolute terms, but what about statistically? Tell me why it is 'problematic' not to derail the issue.
- belorn 10y ago
  We could also call regulation and safety laws gendered because statistically men work more often in unsafe and dangerous environments. When people (practically all men) was exploited to work in coal mines by debt slavery, the solution was not to abolish the mining industry. The deaths, the humiliation and the low value of (poor, young) males life were resolved in the US by identifying the most exploitable aspects of those practices and surgely removing it by regulation. Give the sex industry the same treatment. Regulate away the worst part and tax it heavily so money can be rerouted into making it even safer in a self-sustaining way.
  - Chris2048 10y ago
    > We could also call regulation and safety laws gendered because statistically men work more often in unsafe and dangerous environments. A valid point, and one worth addressing in its own right. Why should the sex industry be given the same treatment? The lives of young, poor men are disregarded, and you want to emulate this for some reason? Seems like we should be condemning unsafe vocations instead.. But this is a bit of a tangent.

by Mz 10y ago

Chris2048 10y ago

Strange this gets labelled 'autonomy' when every other law in the books restricts human autonomy just as much. > They become victims of their pimps This is a tangent to the illegality of prostitution itself. > here is nothing inherently gendered about sex work In absolute terms, but what about statistically? Tell me why it is 'problematic' not to derail the issue.

belorn 10y ago
We could also call regulation and safety laws gendered because statistically men work more often in unsafe and dangerous environments. When people (practically all men) was exploited to work in coal mines by debt slavery, the solution was not to abolish the mining industry. The deaths, the humiliation and the low value of (poor, young) males life were resolved in the US by identifying the most exploitable aspects of those practices and surgely removing it by regulation. Give the sex industry the same treatment. Regulate away the worst part and tax it heavily so money can be rerouted into making it even safer in a self-sustaining way.
- Chris2048 10y ago
  > We could also call regulation and safety laws gendered because statistically men work more often in unsafe and dangerous environments. A valid point, and one worth addressing in its own right. Why should the sex industry be given the same treatment? The lives of young, poor men are disregarded, and you want to emulate this for some reason? Seems like we should be condemning unsafe vocations instead.. But this is a bit of a tangent.