La prostituta “terrorizzata” dai piani per la nuova legge sulla prostituzione
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It seems odd for Scotland to now criminilize prostitution when there seems to be little to no demand for it. Another case of bored Scottish lawmakers who just have to be seen to be doing something, even if it’s something that the people it impacts are telling them it’s a bad idea.
Prostitution is going to keep existing, at least while it’s legal those involved can have more protections.
“You are a victim and this is immoral, so I’m going to ban you from screening clients and put you in more danger”
It’s called the oldest profession for a reason. Trying to stamp it out will just put more of the people they claim to want to protect in danger.
But of course they don’t really care about protecting them. They want people punished for breaking their moral code.
This is one of those areas where decriminalisation makes sense.
Nowhere in the world has managed to successfully stamp out prostitution by force; if they try it here then all it will mean is:
More dangerous encounters for sex workers
A higher cost to them for seeking the support of the police
Both sex workers and their clients being less likely to access sexual health services, increasing costly health issues down the line
More police time and expense pursuing people who are not causing harm to anyone
More court time and expense when we have a massive backlog
More prison space taken up with offenders who are not a threat to society when we don’t have space for those who are
It’s a bad idea all round as far as I can see.
The sheer arrogance of politicians thinking that they, finally, are going to be the people to end the world’s oldest profession once and for all.
As always, all of the arguments in favour are policy based evidence making. Politicians who want something to be true so they instruct civil servants or think tanks to imagine a hypothetical world where things will work out as planned. Then they get to do the shocked pikachu expression when it turns out all their assumptions turn out to be bollocks.
The reality is that the far better option is to decriminalise and professionalise the industry. Go full Onlyfans. Get boring tech companies involved to create viable, scalable practical solutions that maximise the protections avaliable and make it as easy and possible to refer to the police, and have sufficient policing and justice resource to act as a deterrent. Have punters sign a terms and conditions agreement with actual negative legal consequences for their actions if they break it, but remove all the negative stigma if they don’t.
But, y’know, that would involve accepting that some women wouldn’t choose to make the choices politicians want them to make because they know their situation better than faceless bureaucrats, and some (if not the vast majority of) men who pay for it actually do just want easy, casual sex and not to be violent towards women.
They just paying for a dance. Things escalated officer 🤷♂️😇
It’s about time. If sex work is work, rape is merely theft. The evidence speaks for itself.
Another big step to proving how out of touch our government is with reality.
My favorite, Redditors defending sex workers like they’ve ever even spoken to a woman.
The only way for Governments to step in and actually protect people working in the sex industry is to require sex workers to be registered in a government data base and that a social worker does checks on them that they are not trafficked they are alright.
But that requires effort and money to do, so lets just ban it instead because making a black market trade is going to be so much safer.
I know many feel the ICk about sex work.
But it has been around since the dawn of time and in every culture where it is criminalised it directly causes more exploration, increased diseases and chances of violent crime.
We need to accept it, legalise it and put measures in place to ensure the workers have rights like any other worker and are kept safe.
NGL the MSP that ir proposing this [is quite the moron and bigot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Regan)
>Regan opposed the SNP’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill, which sought to amend the provisions of the UK Gender Recognition Act to make the process of bureaucratically transitioning less difficult.[12][45] In 2019, she urged ministers to delay the bill, and, following that delay, in 2022 resigned from her ministerial role in order to vote against it.[46]
>Regan said she wanted to slow down plans to achieve net zero carbon emissions, saying she does not support the rapid phase out of extraction of oil and natural gas from the North Sea.[54] She also committed to prioritising upgrading roads, including converting the A9 road to a dual carriageway faster than planned.[55]
> Alba MSP Ash Regan is introducing a bill that would make it an offence to pay for sexual services. It’s an approach often referred to as the “Nordic Model”.
i mean that laws not going to change anything.
all that will happen is sex workers will state the client is paying for the time spent together, and whatever happens in that time is between two consenting adults
Trying to control what consenting adults do in their free time and pushing the sexist rhetoric of the nordic model, shameful.
Interesting how the MP states that it is a form of male violence, as if women don’t see sex workers either. Regardless, trying to ban prostitution just isn’t going to work and will make the field a lot less safe for those working in it.
If government tries to restrict access to a commodity which people want, they only generate a black market which fuels organised crime.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s sex, drugs, bananas – making illegal things people want to buy only benefits the criminals.
Sex workers would be safer if it were decriminalized. It means more options are open to protect them. Make it illegal and all you are doing is making it worse for sex workers. You aren’t protecting them by making it illegal.
Trying to get rid of prostitution is no different than prohibition. It just makes it easier for criminals to traffick girls and gives them more revenue streams. There is a reason so many pimps are also drug dealers.
We need to give up this stupid, Victorian morality and be sensible about things.
Make prostitution legal and regulate it like any other business, charge VAT on sex acts.
So what are the benefits of open and legal prostitution?
1: Government makes more money out of it if it’s taxed.
2: Sex workers are safer if it’s regulated and treated like any other business. Health and safety legislation will help the girls, they can use their earnings to contribute to a pension, only fans could be treated like the “uber” of sex work and similar protections extended to them. Regulation will require regular health check ups.
3: The sex workers can form a union and gain all the benefits and protections of a trade union.
4: Legal brothels will help get sex workers off the streets and keep them safer.
5: Pimps and sex traffickers will find it much harder with legal prostitution.
6: More business for other industries. Ad companies, social media, entertainment etc.
There is no negatives with making prostitution a perfectly legitimate and legal industry and so many positives.
Brothels are so much safer than offering sex as a freelancer, and should be legal, watch on YouTube an interview with a sex worker that moved to Amsterdam
There’s the square root of jack all that they can do about these massage parlours that offer extras.
Ah yes Ash Regan once again trying to enforce her right wing and religious views on everybody else
I’ve gone full circle on this.
From thinking it should be legalised or at least decriminalised because ‘Yeah! prostitutes!’
To thinking it should be made illegal because it’s a nasty industry.
To thinking criminalise the punters and not the sex workers as that would ‘reduce demand’.
To thinking what if it were one of my daughters doing this? And then moving on from the unrealistic ‘but that could / would never happen as i’d be able to help!’
To realisng that the only sensible thing to do is to decriminalise/legalise, tax, regulate, provide help, security and support, and at the same time look at why women (and men) go into the industry, and try to make life better; make it easier to live a nicer life so it doesn’t become tempting even for those who are fairly stable.
I mean, if your choices in a life were basic secretarial work, stuck in an office every day earning a median or belower median salary, or sex work, which gave you more money than anything else, and let you provide for your family better…
Making it harder and more dangerous to do this work is not the answer.
Many sex workers have issues with the Nordic model and I think the ideal for them is probably the Australian model