Peter T Schmitz wrote:
Wizard,That's mythical. There are prostitution tours men sign up for which take them round the planet to find prostituted children. They want babies and there are places in this world where offering six and seven year olds is not uncommon. I've seen people put eight year olds on the street in this city. The "market" wants the children, so regulating prostitution won't change that.
By legalizing, regulating, zoning and taxing prostitution, minors (males
as well as females) would be safely pushed out of the market.
There are women working in this city and St. Paul to pull women out of prostitution by offering them ways to find safe shelter, learn skills, find jobs. One woman I know personally got out of prostitution, worked hard, became head of her agency. Yet when men on her board were trying to remove her from her position some 15 or more years later, they got out the pictures of her working the streets. Regulating prostitution won't change that either.
The mainstream Feminist solution of continued criminalization ofWM: I don't know the mainstream feminist solution. But I do know that legalizing prostitution will not improve life for prostituted women and children, since it's only legalizing the right to abuse women without consequences.
prostitution is just as pernicious as the Southern Baptist and Catholic
solution.
Addendum: As far as most female prostitutes being victims of childhoodWM: You cannot isolate sexual abuse from what else went on in the person's life. That a person so abused does not continue to be prostituted will be due to a series of issues in the family. For
sexual abuse, that's a fact I certainly don't dispute. I can also say
that many of the nurses, therapists, teachers, waitresses and waiters I
have worked with and known since I was a teenager were also were victims
of childhood sexual abuse.
example, if the abused child told and was protected against the abuser and the abuser removed from the home or any contact with the child, that would make a difference in how the child perceives his/her own abuse and how the child recovers from the abuse. If the family calls the child a liar and protects the abuser, on the other hand, there will follow a series of self-destructive behaviors which may go on for the person's entire life.
Please, let's not compound the victimization of sex workersWM: From my perspective, "sex workers" is horse hockey. That prostituted women would say they were sex workers makes sense, they're reaching for whatever they think will give them dignity.
The sanctions against sexual abuse of women invariably fall on the prostituted women, seldom on their customers or pimps. Police will tell you it's easier to catch the women. Judges will give mealy-mouthed reasons for not leveling heavy sanctions against the men (I've heard judges say things so remarkably stupid about sentencing johns--actually not sentencing them--that it made my head spin. Legalizing prostitution is legalizing the abuse of women, girls, boys, and men.
WizardMarks, Central
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