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Neki's avatar

Prostitution is a shitty job just like any other. If you make it illegal, all that happens is that women end up in even worse jobs for even worse pay.

By all means, poverty-relief, jobs training, a stronger social safety net are all wonderful things that should be supported. But the Nordic model doesn't work.

Sure, when you legalize and regulate prostitution in a place, it tends to have more prostitution, because that's where all the non-enslaved prostitutes go so they don't get arrested/abused by police. It then becomes a destination for sex tourists, which means traffickers also go there, to take advantage of the demand. So it seems like legalization makes things worse when it actually just shifts abuse around geographically to the places where abuse is being reduced the most.

Amnesiac0's avatar

Just say you justify abuse cause u benefit from it as a sex buyer, no sex worker actually advocates for their exploitation unless they buy their services as there is nothing to be proud of being a sex worker as it actively encourages Patriarchal exploitation of women by me.

Mark A. Foster's avatar

Jason, I used to get into arguments with progressives on the NationStates forums all the time on this subject. Most of them supported prostitution as a women's right. I responded: No, it is an example of men's rights - patriarchy - using women as private property.

Amnesiac0's avatar

Such women have this idea that they can simply survive the Patriarchy by being a girl boss the same way men think that being a predator would get them to the top but in reality they end up being seen as a monster which is what they deserve

Women who allow exploitation of their own sisters actively are encouraging their own demise as usual