• rjs001@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Sex work is actually a rather wrong term. Work means to sell your labor value which isn’t what prostitution (or “sex work” is) Selling access to one’s body ≠ selling your labor value as they are different concepts. I’m not arguing that we shouldn’t help people caught in it but rather to help, legalization isn’t necessarily the method to go down. It’s one tiny step right now. Eventually we must eliminate it through education and poverty reduction. I imagine recriminalization would be discussed at such a point when it isn’t necessary for poor people to sell their bodies.

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      1 year ago

      i don’t know what else to say here other than to reiterate that you’re provably wrong on all fronts

      as i’ve said: i live in a place where SEX WORK is regulated rather than criminalised, and we have significantly lower levels of associated social issues because of it… it’s not a theory, it’s a fact backed up by numerous government enquiries…

      in fact, up until a year ago there were more restrictions and they significantly loosened them, because it was found that many of the minimal restrictions were detrimental to protecting people from harm and exploitation

      https://www.vic.gov.au/sex-work-decriminalisation

      i’m not going to reply any more because Brandolini’s law exists

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        1 year ago

        Yet it appears to me that they haven’t addressed if these measures have actually decreased the amount of prostitutes and if that has caused many to get out of it via being “destigmitized” (How in the world it destigmitized it isn’t explained but oh well)

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          decreasing the number of SEX WORKERS was not the aim, and is honestly irrelevant

          it has, however, significantly increased the safety of those doing sex work and allowed them to make choices rather than being stuck

          there are other reports and follow ups that go with that piece; that’s just kinda the culmination and the government PR piece

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            1 year ago

            These changes clearly haven’t had an effect then. I also question your safety claims as it seems that safety regulations were being rolled back according to that article you sent

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              they had the desired effect, it just wasn’t the effect you were looking for. these changes effectively increase the safety of sex work

              the regulations in question were rolled back because they were made in 1994 as a first attempt at legislation… when certain things are found not to be necessary or to cause more harm than good, they were updated

              the last part is really the crux of the issue: regulations that people largely ignore are unhelpful… they only mean that people are less likely to seek help for fear of punishment, and that leads to more abuse

              we had sex worker registration so that the government could track effectiveness of policy changes and revoke licenses if people weren’t following the rules, but it was found that some people were doing sex work without registration, and then were reluctant to seek help if they got exploited or abused for fear that they’d get into legal trouble

              other systems were put in place to ensure everyone stays safe, and the registrations were no longer necessary