20 Reasons why criminalizing or outlawing sex work does not address the issues..

[Shana A]

Monday, March 17, 2008
20 Reasons why criminalizing or outlawing sex work does not address the issues...
darkdaughta

http://darkdaughta.blogspot.com/2008/03/20-reasons-why-criminalizing-or.html

I found a website called Network of Sex Work Projects. It hasn't been consistently updated, but it still gives an overview of what has been happening around the planet in terms of the oppression of sex workers and their resistance to domination...Has anyone heard anything about Bolivian sex workers who went on hunger strike, sewed their mouths shut and threaten to bury themselves alive if the government took away their source of income?

I found this article which offered one person's perspective on criminalizing prostitution. Please byoa(bring your own analysis). I did.

[tekla]

Why, would that be the same Janice Raymond who wrote Transsexual Empire?  You betcha.

[lady amarant]

Sex workers are amongst the most marginalised and abused group of people on the planet.

As with drug abuse, alcohol abuse and all the other darker bits of our society, you're not going to help the matter by turning victims into criminals. The only way to combat the situation is to help them get out of it, and that means legalise, control, and then provide alternatives.

[Shana A]

Why, would that be the same Janice Raymond who wrote Transsexual Empire?  You betcha.

One and the same.

Z