Big Business. The Olympics is full of it.
As long as personal peace and affluence is a society’s driving force then it does not care a hoot out side of that. After all, the Olympics is about world community, peace, tolerance, and blah, blah, blah.
A bit of insight is found below.
Yet people like Joyce Arthur argue that the numbers on human trafficking are blown out of proportion.
“* The incidence of sex trafficking and sexual slavery is hugely inflated. Most “victims” are adults who have consented to do sex work and don’t want to be “rescued.”
** Some third parties can be exploitive, but usually they aren’t. Generally, their role is to facilitate work for sex workers and help keep them safe. However, the current criminal laws increase the risk that sex workers will be exploited because they have no legal recourse.”
The big clue with Joyce Arthur is using the euphemism ‘sex worker’. A revisionist if there ever was one. She promotes the ‘worker’ as she argues against anything that opposes ‘choice’ except of course those ‘choices’ that disagree with her own..
I wonder what sources JoyceArthur would cite when she suggests that most prostitutes aren’t exploited? And I also wonder what she would say to the advocates of Native women, who desperately want prostitution to remain illegal. Would she just ignore them?
I also wonder just how much we, as a society, are responsible for the safety of those who choose to make prostitution their line of work. Nobody wants to see a call girl hurt, but I tend to think that, when you operate on the margins of the law, then the law isn’t really responsible for your personal safety. If prostitution becomes legal, you can bet that we will see more of it. And, given that it is an inherently dangerous business, it will be well nigh impossible to keep all those girls safe.
Well, we’ll see what happens later on today. Here’s hoping that Bedford doesn’t win her case.
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Big Business. The Olympics is full of it.
As long as personal peace and affluence is a society’s driving force then it does not care a hoot out side of that. After all, the Olympics is about world community, peace, tolerance, and blah, blah, blah.
A bit of insight is found below.
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=bf1a23dd-411b-4d23-ac04-1fe371334a6a
Yet people like Joyce Arthur argue that the numbers on human trafficking are blown out of proportion.
“* The incidence of sex trafficking and sexual slavery is hugely inflated. Most “victims” are adults who have consented to do sex work and don’t want to be “rescued.”
** Some third parties can be exploitive, but usually they aren’t. Generally, their role is to facilitate work for sex workers and help keep them safe. However, the current criminal laws increase the risk that sex workers will be exploited because they have no legal recourse.”
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/12/prostituted-words-time-new-style-guide
The big clue with Joyce Arthur is using the euphemism ‘sex worker’. A revisionist if there ever was one. She promotes the ‘worker’ as she argues against anything that opposes ‘choice’ except of course those ‘choices’ that disagree with her own..
I wonder what sources JoyceArthur would cite when she suggests that most prostitutes aren’t exploited? And I also wonder what she would say to the advocates of Native women, who desperately want prostitution to remain illegal. Would she just ignore them?
I also wonder just how much we, as a society, are responsible for the safety of those who choose to make prostitution their line of work. Nobody wants to see a call girl hurt, but I tend to think that, when you operate on the margins of the law, then the law isn’t really responsible for your personal safety. If prostitution becomes legal, you can bet that we will see more of it. And, given that it is an inherently dangerous business, it will be well nigh impossible to keep all those girls safe.
Well, we’ll see what happens later on today. Here’s hoping that Bedford doesn’t win her case.