Guest wrote: ↑01 Jan 2022, 21:25
Guest wrote: ↑01 Jan 2022, 21:13
Suuuure buddy lmao.
The sex work industry being labeled "empowerment" by them, which I did mention, is supporting equality? Even with the femicide that's happening? Trafficking? Please tell me more about how that's feminism.
It's destigmatizing these practices and giving women an option to be employed in them without facing harsh social consequences. Whether or not it is the correct choice for that particular woman (whether it will be empowering) is for her to decide and ultimately find out. Feminism is not saying that sex work or any other work is ideal for all women. It's merely giving an option. And there are quite a few women who are very happy in these professions.
Do your research.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData ... 040_EN.pdf
There have been polls done for prostitutes and 89% of them said that they want to quit prostitution but they have no other choice. I care about those 89% a million times more than the women “escorts” & “cam girls” who “like” doing what they do.
Interviews with 785 people in prostitution in nine countries showed that 89% of them wanted to escape prostitution but had no other options for survival.
Prostitution is also EXTREMELY dangerous.
https://endsexualexploitation.org/wp-c ... et_rv3.pdf
“Yeah, sometimes I do feel that they think I'm not a person. That anybody can just hurt me and just walk away.”
A study of 222 prostituted women (aged 18-59) in Chicago, who were currently in prostitution or had been within the past five years, reported violence across seven common prostitution activities (escort, exotic dancing, prostitution from one’s own residence, street, hotels, drug house, and survival sex). Violence was reported by the women in all prostitution venues. The 12 most common forms of violence included: slapping; punching; hair pulling; pinching; spanking; kicking; ripping clothes; throwing objects; threats with weapons; threats of rape; inserting fingers/objects; and rape.
A comparative study of 46 formerly prostituted females (indoor prostitution only) and a control group (CG) of 31 age and education matched South Korean women found that of the prostituted women:
• 78.3% experienced serious economic crisis including homelessness;
• 82.6% were kept under surveillance or in captivity;
• 71.7% were threatened with harm against those close to her or herself;
• 65.2% had their daily activities such as eating, sleeping, and using toilets were controlled;
• 54.3% physical appearance, body weight, and clothing controlled;
• 69.6% experienced unexpected/ uncontrollable sexual/ physical attack;
• 78.3% were emotionally abused, shamed, neglected, and spoken ill of.
In-depth interviews with 16 women (aged 20-38) incarcerated for prostitution-related offenses or on other charges but known to engage in prostitution, in a Midwestern county jail in the U.S., revealed that:
• 93.8% had experienced some sort of sexual assault;
• 75% had been raped by one or more sex buyer;
• 62.6% raped in another context on the streets;
• 37.5% had been kidnapped and held captive;
• 61.2% had been beaten;
• 31.3% punched or kicked;
• 31.3% stabbed or slashed;
• 25% hit with an object like a bat or brick
• 1 woman had been tortured with electric shock.
An investigation into the morality rate of women in prostitution revealed that the leading cause of death was homicide (19%) and found that actively prostituting women were nearly 18 times more likely to be murdered that women of similar age and race during the study interval.
The risks of this do not go down simply because a woman is “higher class,” charges more, “selects” her “clients”(rapists!!!), and so on.
Also don’t ignore the fact that legalized prostitution contributes to much higher rates of sex trafficking! Supply and demand.
https://adcmemorial.org/en/news/15795/
In the Netherlands, according to an official report by the police from 2008, 50% to 90% of persons in prostitutions in legal brothels are actually victims of human trafficking.
With prostitution, porn and so on being normalized in society, it only reinforces that men have a right to women’s bodies, and that we are only objects of sexual pleasure for men. Hell NO to all of that!!!!!
“Choice feminism” is not feminism. The personal is political, the private is political. One cannot fight against the dehumanization/objectification of women simply by claiming that they personally “enjoy” doing what they do.
I would rather have the 11% of women who are “happy” doing “sex work” have to get new “jobs” than let the 89% be raped ever again.
To summarize: no real feminist will ever believe in “sex work” of any form, and men DON'T have a right to women's bodies.