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Does anyone else see the article presenting for a mutually agreed on act as women innocent / men predatory? For example > The Swedish or Nordic model takes ai
by spodek 9y ago
Does anyone else see the article presenting for a mutually agreed on act as women innocent / men predatory?
For example
> The Swedish or Nordic model takes aim at the demand, making it illegal to buy sexual services but not to sell it.
but
> In a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District of Rhode Island, COYOTE's lawyer argued that the state's law on prostitution was too broad and discriminated against women, given that female sex workers were arrested far more than male customers.
Saying "takes aim at the demand" for a mutually consenting interaction just seems a way of targeting men without explicitly saying it. Different countries and situations, but the reporter doesn't note the different treatment by the state when one sex is criminalized versus the other.
Or
> "You see the silencing of victims," Hughes said. "It is just very harmful to women. It really is a libertarian approach, but the ones who get freedom are the pimps, the sex buyers, the businessmen who then can rent properties to the massage parlors, and to the sex buyers. There's very little freedom for the women."
or
> As for Robinson, the online escort who moved to Rhode Island? She was angry.
> "It pissed me off. I didn't know nothing about activism, I didn't know what a sex worker rights organization was," she said.
> Robinson changed that. She became active with COYOTE, the sex worker union and advocacy group.
> "Criminalization is a punishment for women who won't conform," Robinson said. "And we're just supposed to go live in the streets in poverty and not complain about it, and be good women."
Nothing wrong with a woman's perspective, but men's behavior was criminalized too. I would think it would add to the article to get some of their perspective.
Not including men's perspective, except as the businessmen who make money off the women and the rapists, makes the article sound like the reason for prostitution's negative reputation is men. Would a quote like the following fly?
> "Criminalization is a punishment for men who won't conform. We're just supposed to go live without sex and not complain about it, and be good men."