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Ten Reasons for Not Legalizing Prostitution
Janice G. Raymond - 27.10.2003 03:13

Legitimating prostitution as "work" does not empower the women in prostitution.

As countries are considering legalizing and decriminalizing the sex industry, Janice G. Raymond urge us to consider the ways in which legitimating prostitution as "work" does not empower the women in prostitution but does everything to strengthen the sex industry. Read

The Legalisation of Prostitution : A failed social experiment, by Sheila Jeffeys

Sheila Jeffreys shows that the social experiment of legalising brothel prostitution which took place in Australia in the 1980s and 1990s has failed in all of its objectives i.e. stopping the illegal industry and police corruption, reducing the harm to women, stopping street prostitution. Read

"Legitimating Prostitution as Sex Work : UN Labour Organization (ILO) Calls for Recognition of the Sex Industry (Part One and Two)", by Janice G. Raymond.

Janice G. Raymond analyses a controversial 1998 report of the International Labor Organization (ILO), the official labor agency of the United Nations, calling for economic recognition of the sex industry. Citing the expanding reach of the industry and its unrecognized contribution to the gross domestic product (GDP) of four countries in Southeast Asia, the ILO urges official recognition of what it terms "the sex sector." Read

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- Ten Raisons for Not Legalizing Prostitution, by Janice G. Raymond
- Legitimating Prostitution as Sex Work: UN Labour Organization (ILO) Calls for Recognition of the Sex Industry- Part One and Two, by Janice G. Raymond
- The Legalisation of Prostitution: A failed social experiment, by Sheila Jeffreys
- Prostitution: Rights of Women or right to women ? by Elaine Audet

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I don't understand it at all, do I? 
EcoNozem - 27.10.2003 15:21

I have read the above mentioned arguments but I still don't understand why there should be a legal difference between making money by using your hands and making money by using your genitals?!

The consequence of doing something illegal is usually that you take a risk of going to jail. While I am all in favor of better women rights, I don't see why women (and men) who work in the sex industry should be put behind bars or denied the rights which all the workers in not-sex industries have. So it would be nice if some arguments for the incarceration of sex workers would be provided as well.


not convinced 
ingrid - 28.10.2003 08:03

I'm not sure about ms Raymond's arguments either. This is the same woman who wrote a book against reproductive technologies, not mentioning the grey-zones and empowering moments for women and putting reproductive techs as all bad. Now here, the sex industry is all bad. The problem is that she doesn't really specify which women she's talking about. I mean, being an illegal immigrant and hence having no other option to make a good sum than the sex industry is a totally different situation from choosing to make some good quick money next to your studies by being a call-girl.

On the one hand, the illegal status of sex work in a lot of countries makes it a gold mine for gross exploitation. On the other hand, I know that by legalising the sex industry in holland, this meant slightly better conditions and hygiene control for some sex workers, but less opportunity to do sex work for illegal immigrants. Ms Raymond seems to take a (christian) moral stance (sex=porn=bad=exploitation, or tech=bad=messing with life) rather than really letting several women in the industry speak for themselves.

 
- 28.10.2003 11:58

De Nederlandse lezer neme ook eens een kijkje bij De Rode Draad (belangenvereniging voor prostituees),  http://www.rodedraad.nl/
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