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GOOD NEWS from Ireland! They’re adopting the Nordic Model for prostitution of criminalizing only the sex buyers — while decriminalizing the prostituted women. Yay team! 🙂
“The Immigrant Council of Ireland has welcomed the move, which it said was an important first step in “wrecking the business model” that had allowed pimps and traffickers to profit from exploiting women.
The Council has been lobbying heavily for changes in the legislation for quite some time, highlighting the high number of women who have been trafficked into the trade, as well as violence, criminal and sexual assaults, and exploitation that are commonplace.”
Yay! Prostitution is now illegal in Canada! Plus there’s a new focus on DEMAND — through prosecuting pimps and johns — and on helping women exit the sex trade and transition to better lives. See basic details below, and the full press release covering all points at the link.
“The Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act is a “made-in-Canada” model, which directly targets the demand for this dangerous activity. The Act would introduce tough action to crack down on pimps and johns. For the first time, the purchase of sexual services would be criminalized, with tough penalties for those who exploit others through prostitution. The proposed legislation would also protect and safeguard our communities-in particular women, children, and those who are at risk of being drawn into prostitution-from the dangers associated with prostitution, including violence, drug-related crime, and organized crime.
“This model involves a significant overhaul of the Criminal Code’s treatment of prostitution and related activities. It would:
— Criminalize those who fuel the demand for prostitution, i.e. purchasers of sexual services;
— Continue to criminalize those who financially benefit from the exploitation of others through prostitution, such as pimps, and those who procure others for the purpose of prostitution;
— Prohibit advertising for the sale of others’ sexual services in print or online;
— Immunize those who sell their own sexual services from criminal liability for any part they play in the purchasing, material benefit, procuring or advertising offences;
Protect our communities by criminalizing communicating for the purpose of selling sexual services in public places where a child could reasonably be expected to be present;
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— Increase existing penalties relating to child prostitution.
“These measures will be supported by $20 million in new funding, including to support grassroots organizations dealing with the most vulnerable. Assistance will be provided to those who want to leave this dangerous and harmful activity; therefore, there will be an emphasis on funding programs that can help individuals exit prostitution.”
NOTE: We acknowledge that this is not the same or as ideal as the full Nordic Model that abolitionists were hoping and working for, but it is still a HUGE improvement from previous laws, and an even greater leap from what pro-sex industry people were going for. So we consider this to be a significant success and an enormous step in the right direction. Go Canada! 🙂
Here’s a thought-provoking article by Katha Pollitt (@KathaPollitt) calling out the Left on their support for prostitution. Go Katha!
“It’s one thing to say sex workers shouldn’t be stigmatized, let alone put in jail. But when feminists argue that sex work should be normalized, they accept male privilege they would attack in any other area. They accept that sex is something women have and men get (do I hear “rape culture,” anyone?), that men are entitled to sex without attracting a partner, even to the limited extent of a pickup in a bar, much less pleasing or satisfying her. As Grant says, they are buying a fantasy—the fantasy of the woman who wants whatever they want (how johns persuade themselves of this is beyond me). But maybe men would be better partners, in bed and out of it, if they couldn’t purchase that fantasy, if sex for them, as for women, meant finding someone who likes them enough to exchange pleasure for pleasure, intimacy for intimacy. The current way of seeing sex work is all about liberty—but what about equality?
I thought the left was about that, too.”
READ THE REST OF THIS EXCELLENT ARTICLE AT THE LINK BELOW: (And please don’t forget to like, comment and share to spread the word and support the cause. Thanks! :-))
PLEASE NOTE: This article was written by a feminist Leftist and is not criticizing ALL people who identify as “Leftists” or “feminists,” only those who support “sex work,” because, as the author correctly points out, such support is inconsistent with the stated true ideals of both the Left and feminism.
Photo credit: (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken) – via The Nation
INFO: The Nordic or Swedish Model reduces the DEMAND for prostitution by criminalizing the male buyers of sex, while decriminalizing the women in prostitution and helping them as needed, with exit and transition services, etc. And it WORKS to really reduce both prostitution and human trafficking.
This model was just approved by the European Parliament, so hopefully it will be implemented more all over Europe — and then in other places in the world, like here in the United States!
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Below is another excellent but shorter video with the same eloquent Swedish policeman, telling it like it is about how effective the Nordic Model is for combating prostitution and sex trafficking. Very informative and inspirational!
In case you missed it, the Nordic Model for prostitution was approved last week by the European Parliament! Yay team!! 🙂
[IB Times] — A vote at the European Parliament that supports the ‘Nordic Model’ of prostitution has been voted through with a large majority.
Put forward by Labour London MEP Mary Honeyball, the model of prostitution law criminalises the client instead of the sex worker.
At the vote, 343 members voted in favour of the report, 139 against and 105 people abstained. Commenting on the outcome, Honeyball said: “Today’s outcome represents a vital signal from MEPs that we cannot continue to tolerate the exploitation of women. Rather than blanket legalization, parliament has backed the more nuanced approach already practised in Sweden as a means of tackling prostitution. This punishes men who treat women’s bodies as a commodity, without criminalising women who are driven into sex work.
“The idea that prostitution is the ‘oldest profession’ leads some to think we should accept it as a fact of life – that all we can do is regulate it a little better. This course of action leads to an increase in prostitution levels, normalising the purchase of sex and ingraining the inequalities which sustain the sex industry.
“The outcome of today’s vote symbolises the changing attitudes of EU countries on this issue, and the desire of member states to learn from one another. I hope today’s result will encourage member states including the UK to be radical and ambitious enough to go Swedish.”
READ THE REST OF THIS STORY AT THE LINK BELOW: (And please don’t forget to like, comment and share to spread the word and support the cause. Thanks! :-))
Please support the March 8 protest against Amnesty International UK to oppose their pro #prostitution stand! And of course please also attend the event if you can! Thanks! 🙂
Please watch, like and share our new video! Thanks! 🙂
Professor and feminist MacKinnon discusses how prostitution and sex trafficking are forms of INEQUALITY for women and girls, and why the SWEDISH or NORDIC MODEL is the solution to overcoming this inequality in regards to the devastating harms of commercial sexual exploitation and sex slavery.
Also please don’t forget to COMMENT here and at YouTube, and to SUBSCRIBE to our SayNOtoProstitution channel. More new videos are coming soon!
~~~ To learn more about the important issues raised in this video, please check out the many helpful references about prostitution harms in the DESCRIPTION of this video at YouTube (see link above). The description also contains some informative references about and by Catharine MacKinnon.
Please feel free to also check out the VIDEO INTRODUCTION to this video, which talks about Catharine MacKinnon’s many qualifications and important accomplishments.
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SAD NEWS: Amnesty Int’l (@Amnesty) supports decriminalization/legalization of prostitution. Tell them NO! ~~~~~~ (Petition and other links further down.)
[Daily Mail] — Laws that ban people from buying or selling sex should be scrapped because they breach their human rights, according to Amnesty International.
A policy document drawn up by the charity claims that prostitutes, pimps and men who buy sex are simply ‘exercising their autonomy’ and should be allowed to do so ‘free from government interference’.
The proposal, which also bizarrely compares prostitutes to coal miners and domestic servants, was uncovered by writer Julie Bindel.
It has now sparked a major row within the organisation, which is best known for its attempts to free political prisoners and campaigns against torture.
Last night critics said Amnesty was ‘losing the plot’ with one former member accusing the organisation of ‘betraying women’s rights’. They told the Mail: ‘We do not solve the problems for women in the developing world by encouraging them to be prostitutes. Who benefits from that? The men. Prostitution is a form of exploitation and abuse – not a choice.’
READ THE REST OF THIS STORY AT THE LINK BELOW: (And please don’t forget to like, comment and share to spread the word and support the cause. Thanks!)
Below is an excellent overview of the current situation in Canada regarding legalization of prostitution there.
What happens in Canada in the next year could have a significant impact on how this issue is dealt with by other countries world-wide, so it’s important to understand the situation in Canada, and to support those in favor of abolition and the Nordic Model there and everywhere. (It criminalizes the johns who create the DEMAND, and helps women who want to exit and transition to healthier lives to do so.)
[Women’s E-News] –Jackie Lynne, a social worker and former prostitute, is one of the many vocal critics of the Supreme Court of Canada’s unanimous decision late last month to strike down all of Canada’s laws that criminalize prostitution.
Lynne is concerned by the message decriminalization sends to the Canadian public about prostitution; namely that prostitution should be recognized as a career choice.
“My body knows that it was never work,” Lynne said in a phone interview from her home in Vancouver. “It has been decades since I have been prostituted. I am still healing from the harms of it.”
The Supreme Court struck down laws prohibiting operating a brothel, living off the avails of prostitution and street communication. The case was brought by three former and current sex workers. They argued that the laws–which made practices such as hiring drivers and guards illegal–violated their constitutional right to a safe work environment.
Lynne has studied prostitution academically for 15 years, after completing a master’s degree in social work at the University of British Columbia. In 2012 she co-founded Indigenous Women Against the Sex Industry, based in Vancouver, to bring attention to the inequalities that land indigenous women in sex work and to demand resources for women trying to exit the industry.
What troubles Lynne most as a Métis, an aboriginal group in the country, is the overrepresentation of indigenous women in prostitution in Canada. For her, decriminalization won’t change the conditions that drive such women into prostitution and won’t make it any safer.
“It’s sexual assault and why it’s not called that is because we live in a society where if you pay for something, it’s OK,” Lynne said.
READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE AT THE LINK BELOW: (And please don’t forget to like, comment and share to spread the word and support the cause. Thanks! :-))
Please watch and share our powerful interview with LeNair Xavier on what’s wrong with prostitution. LeNair discusses the harms of being a “rentboy” or male “escort.”
Please support LeNair’s being willing to speak out and be interviewed by us by liking, sharing and commenting on this video here at WordPress, and liking, favoriting, sharing and commenting at YouTube.
It takes a lot of courage and integrity for a gay or bisexual man to speak out against prostitution in the gay community because it is such an accepted type of behavior. In fact it is, unfortunately — as LeNair points out in the video — almost a rite of passage!
In the video LeNair recites his powerful poem “No Joy with a Rentboy,” which addresses his brief relationship with a male “escort.” The full text of the poem is below, along with the rest of the video description, that contains many helpful links.
Thanks for your support!
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
NO JOY WITH A RENTBOY
– by LeNair Xavier
When you first told me what you do
My first thought was to say we’re through
But then I tried to not be close-minded
As I live an eyebrow-raising life, too
Now, the time has come to be sincere
Facing the facts that are so damn clear
No more denial blinding my eyes
To how what you do is a cancer to both our lives
I don’t trust your head
Nor do I trust your bed
For I’m realizing how much DNA
Your one and only mattress has been fed
Why does my lack of trust surprise you
When so many johns wear your cum?
But then you try saying we have a home
Claiming that I’m the one
You can wash your in-call sheets 1,000 times
You can take 1,000 showers
It won’t erase how the essence of your johns
Has heart-draining, lingering powers
On that out-call, was I really on your mind?
Or was that just another line
Like the ones you tell your clients
So you can make another dime?
That’s why I can’t trust your heart
For it’s so often in the dark
So you can do the deed, then spew your seed
But I can see your soul is nowhere near freed
You are living a life bound in tightening chains
Crushing your heart behind that wall
But with all the drug and booze you do to get numb
Even with my care, that wall won’t fall
It is now politically INcorrect to say
One’s decision is based on moral judgments
Well, f*ck political correctness!
For here moral judgment shows good sense
See, the so-called “service” you provide
Is for the weak and socially inept
Sex is about our bodies joining for a soul connection
And how you sell it gives your spirit light to Death
So you can’t be trusted
And now, I’m disgusted
Our deceptions to ourselves
Have now been busted
If this is me living with a closed mind
At least, I will later smile and do fine
For I’m seeing there is no joy with a rentboy
Except the FAKE one paid in cash for time
WATCH PLAYLIST OF LENAIR’S OWN VIDEOS: On prostitution & porn harms for gay males & others:
(WARNING: GRAPHIC SEXUAL CONTENT)
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