so making it legal to be a prostitute is being discussed and...

[eska_rina]

the actress Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis apparently thinks she knows more about prostitution than, oh idk, the women who actually are prostitutes. Apparently she has written a column in Eksta Bladet, in which she calls prostitutes "fissehuller" (transl: "pussy holes") and claim that a homepage made by women working in the sex business, www.

Comments

[mycenaes]

It really bothers me when people are anti-sex worker. It is shaming, and it's not right.

[eska_rina]

Me too, but it especially bothers me when they claim they are actually trying to "help" these women. Mmm, no, they are not. They are trying to uphold a world, where women having sex is being viewed as something being BAD and working with it makes you BAD. Their so-called attempt to "help" is actually hurting these women. It pisses me off, does it! Hrmpf.

[eska_rina]

haha, yeah, agree, I think I'm going to make me one :P

[eska_rina]

I'm starting to think that maybe fighting against especially the misogynism that sex workers experience will have an extreme affect on this society's sexism.

But, unfortunately, it's not just men who shames sex workers - it's also our fellow feminists :( Which makes an already nasty fight even more nasty :(

[krytella]

I have no articles to offer, but I agree with you on all of this. It's a topic that would be important to me as a sex-positive feminist anyway, but I also have several friends (and one roommate) who are escorts and I've seen what they go through with peoples' attitudes. For "middle class" sex workers (i.e. not street prostitutes or drug-addicted strippers), the vast majority of problems come from social attitudes and the police rather than clients or the work itself. My roommate was a waitress at a bar before she quit to become a full-time escort, and she says escorting is much less demeaning than being a waitress. She doesn't have to be on her feet eight hours a day and she can pick and screen her clients, rather than having to be nice to drunk, obnoxious customers who are ogling her breasts anyway.

[kitkatsicons]

i agree with you that people shouldn't be so rude to prositutites. however though i don't support legalizing the whole industry, instead buying sex should be illegal(and physically forcing other people through violence,drugging them etc. into prositution should be outlawed too), but not selling sex.

[eska_rina]

oh wow, an old post to find - how did you end here?

Rude to prostitutes? We're not talking about rudeness, we're talking about shaming and dehumanizing these women, which is a completely different - and far worse - issue. Rudeness only hurt feelings, shaming and dehumanizing people is oppressive. It creates a class-system, where these people are at the bottom.

Forcing people to do anything, no matter if it's selling sex - which btw would make it rape and slavery, two things which are illegal where I live already - or something else, should be illegal. But why should selling/buying sex be illegal as long as both the sex worker choose to sell sex freely and the client choose to buy the sex freely? Making selling and/or buying sex illegal implies there's something inherently wrong with some versions of sex. Which I've yet to see any good arguments for

[kitkatsicons]

well, only a small minority of them choose it freely, also in place where it's legalized like the netherlands, germany, and certain counties in the u.s. state of nevada, the number of reported rapes is high, and trafficking, and child prositution is huge problem there compored to several other western nations

[kitkatsicons]

yeah but unfortunately many governments don't do enough to stop it, and from what i researched, legalizing prostitution just seemed to legitimize the abuses they suffer from unfortunatley