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Their legal documents are taken from them. They are told that the police will lock them in prison or deport them if they try to get help. You are down to the v
by xixi77 13y ago
Their legal documents are taken from them. They are told that the police will lock them in prison or deport them if they try to get help.
You are down to the very root of the problem here; the logical thing to do would be to make sure these threats are not credible, but it seems you are advocating exactly the opposite.
Domestic sex workers rarely turn to sex work out of free choice. They've made bad decisions, and now they're addicted to drugs, or in deep debt, and sex work is the only way they can get money.
There are many (most?) professions that people choose primarily because that is the best way for them to make money. Why take exception with sex work?
The few people who enjoy sex work are not enough to satiate demand for sex workers, especially if it's legal.
What does this even mean? Normally, demand and supply are made equal through price, and this is exactly how it happens in sex work, just as in any other.
It's nice to think that a bit of sex work is one way that people could chose to put themselves through college and then move on to much better work, but unfortunately that's nothing like the truth of sex work.
s/sex work/any other manual job/, and your statement would still stand true, except it often provides a much higher hourly rate for the worker, compared to most alternatives.
Fundamentally, this is nothing but covert moralizing, implicitly arguing that if other people make choices that you personally consider repugnant, they are somehow objectively wrong and need to be re-educated to see the error of their ways.
- DanBC 13y ago> the logical thing to do would be to make sure these threats are not credible, but it seems you are advocating exactly the opposite. The threats are already not credible. A trafficked sex worker going to police is not going to be arrested; the person controlling a trafficked sex worker is in far more legal trouble. > Why take exception with sex work? Because it's not a free choice. An addict cannot freely chose sex work. > Fundamentally, this is nothing but covert moralizing, implicitly arguing that if other people make choices that you personally consider repugnant, they are somehow objectively wrong and need to be re-educated to see the error of their ways. You need to speak to sex workers and ex-sex workers and hear the very strong trauma they experience. I've said (although not in this thread) that I have no problem with people selling or buying sex. Someone paying for sex, and someone providing that service is in theory a normal transaction. In practice, very few people want to be paid to provide sex services, and the number of people forced to work in the sex trade is worrying. Perhaps I've been a bit confusing with terminology. By sex work I tend to mean prostitution, rather than camming etc. (Although the lighter end has some distressing problems too.) And I'm in the UK, where it's legal to pay for sex and to receive money for sex, but we have lots of trafficked people working in the industry.