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nothingiswrongwithyourarmrests:transexualist:auntiewanda:blackswallowtailbutterfly:exgynocraticgrrl:radfem-momma:my-oddly-drawn-circus:sizvideos:VideoLIBFEM BULLSHIT.OMFG.I can’t even deal with this right now. Can someone else take this one?Ana makes more money each year she gains experience in her careerJulia loses money each year because she is seen as an object that is “used up” by her jobAna’s occupational hazards include repetitive motion injuries and construction accidents, and she is protected by OSHA and workers compensation laws if something happensJulia’s occupational hazards include rape, pregnancy, beatings, rectal prolapse, murder, PTSD, and sexually transmitted diseases. OSHA does not care.Ana isn’t offered extra money for failing to wear a hardhat in construction zonesJulia is offered extra money for having sex without a condomIf Ana turns down a client they will go to someone else that can also safely turn them downIf Julia turns down a client they may react violently, or they will go to someone who can’t turn down clientsAna’s colleagues are like her- they are highly paid and well educated. they all have many options besides being architects. Most of them are men.Julia’s colleagues are forced into their jobs and have few (if any) options. Almost all of them are women and children.[Screenshot taken of this commentary]“In a study submitted at trial with 854 women in 9 countries, including Canada, 89% of women interviewed said they wanted out of prostitution. In another study submitted at trial conducted in the downtown eastside of Vancouver, 95% of prostituted women interviewed said they wanted out of prostitution“Here are some statistics of what goes on in porn and the industry from an LA based survivor organization Also read: Why Sex Work Isn’t WorkAlso a reminder that “sex work” is not a neutral or objective term but a liberal one (tied in with economics) that specifically comes out of the 1970s United States pro-prostitution movement and is about an ideology that promotes the sex industries by using language to gloss over its harms: Many in favor of the legalization of prostitution refer to it as “sex work” and employ concepts such as “consent,” “agency,” “sexual freedom,” “the right to work,” and even “human rights” in the course of making their defense.[1] Consider some of the common claims defenders of legalization advance: sex work is work just like any other form of work, only the social shame and stigma around sex prevent people from seeing it as such;[2] many (most) women[3] who sell sex chose to be there, so we should respect their choice and agency, after all they are in no different a position than someone who chooses a minimum wage job without better alternatives;[4] women choosing to sell sex is an example of sexual freedom and rejecting repressive norms that limit women’s sexuality,[5] so we should respect their sexually autonomous choices to sell sex for a living. - Why Sex Work Isn’t Workby Lori WatsonAlso, many of the formerly prostituted do not support being called “sex workers” or them being prostituted being called “sex work.”“In January 2014, 61 South Asian victims and survivors of prostitution as well as women’s groups representing communities marginalized by caste, class and ethnicity and antitrafficking organizations helping girls and women “trapped in bonded labour and other forms of servitude” wrote to Mlambo-Ngcuka to protest the new UN Women policy of avoiding the word prostitution.“We do not want to be called ‘sex workers’ but prostituted women and children, as we can never accept our exploitation as ‘work,’ ” the letter signers wrote. “We think that the attempts in UN documents to call us ‘sex workers’ legitimizes violence against women, especially women of discriminated caste, poor men and women and women and men from minority groups, who are the majority of the prostituted.”They are still awaiting an answer from UN Women, Gupta said.Censoring comment about violence against girls and women is not new in the Commission on the Status of Women or in the UN more broadly. Nafis Sadik, the outspoken executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, or UNFPA, from 1987 to 2000, said in an interview in 2013 that there had been numerous attempts to silence her, often from pressure by governments.” — Prostitution: A Word That UN Women Does Not Want to Hear | March 31, 2015Cherry Smiley’s AWAN addressto the 55th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)at the UN in 2011. [Gifset source]“Please be aware that the term ‘sex work’, which is found in your public policies and documents, came out of the US sex trade of the 1970’s. It was invented with the particular aim of normalising and sanitising prostitution for the public and for lawmakers in particular, and you have done a great service for those who profit from prostitution by your acceptance and adoption of it. Simultaneously you have also – inadvertently, we acknowledge – levelled a painful insult against us. We are, all of us, sex-trade survivors; the living witnesses of a dehumanising trade, and any acceptance of our abuse as ‘work’ further dehumanises us.“ — Open Letter from Survivors, Alliance of Women for the Abolition of ProstitutionRachel Moran on the terms "Sex Work" and "Sex Worker".[Gifset source]Let me just stop here for a second to point out “Ana is an architect”. NOT IN THAT DRESS AND THOSE SHOES SHE’S FUCKING NOT! YOU WEAR STEEL-TOED BOOTS ON THE CONSTRUCTION SITE OR YOU AREN’T ON THE CONSTRUCTION SITE! Not that I should expect any kind of accuracy from people who think prostitution, porn, and stripping are all “a job like any other!” but fuck! My grandmother literally turned a woman around for trying to come onto the construction site in shoes like that.And you don’t wear dresses like that to a construction site either. They WILL get dust and dirt and mud all over them. But ALSO, a dress is an extremely impractical thing to be wearing at a drafting table! My grandmother was forced to wear dresses early on in her career and it was awful. They said that was the dress code for women, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. But ties were also a part of the dress and sex wasn’t specified for that, so my grandmother wore a dress and tie until they finally let her wear pants. But this ad wants to convince me of its position by showing an “architect” in a tight as fuck dress and high-heeled shoes carrying blue-prints and visiting a construction site???/rantThey did it as a “gotcha!” Like “Bet you thought Ana was the prostitute!” You know. Cause she’s in heels and a tight dress. I couldn’t even search who produced the “PSA” cause all that kept coming up was porn results. Go figure.the term “sex worker” is less than useless since it encompasses everything from prostituted women and children to the men who are trafficking them, porn directors and producers, male porn stars who abuse their female co-stars, etc. How can you use a term that puts both the victims and the perpetrators in the same category? “sex workers” are not a cohesive group, even if it didn’t include pornographers and pimps its incredibly naive to think someone who sells/has sold nudes should be allowed to speak on behalf of someone who’s being/been paid to be raped. Those are two wildly different situations despite both being coercive, and you’re doing a great disservice to women and children in prostitution by putting the two in the same category and allowing the former group to speak over the latter and set the tone of the debate. All of the above does not engage with the purpose of classing prostitution as work. If prostitution is illegal a person who is forced into it has no rights and no way to appeal to the authorities, because she’s now a criminal. They can receive no legal protection. They can’t sue someone for breaking a contract. All the problems radfem-momma correctly identifies exist because prostitutes can’t rely on the protections of labour laws! Creating sex work as a class of work is a way to try to give those who are being exploited RIGHTS. So they can be exploited less easily, or hopefully not at all! Classing prostitution as work means that all the workers rights also have to apply to protitutes. This is a way to try and HELP THEM. It means we also need to enforce the labour laws for prostitutes. Because they have the right to a safe workplace. People have the right to be protected regardless of how they are pressured or choose to make money. The ENTIRE POINT of the video is that making prostitution illegal strips the sex workers of so many protections they can have as workers!I agree that much of prostitution in real life is horribly bound up in modern slavery. When we arrest pimps for breaking labour laws and human trafficking laws WE FIGHT THAT. When we criminalize prostitution the state victimises the women forced into it further. We should treat prostitution as work under the law and enforce the labour laws and prevent people from being forced into the industry. The same people that traffic people for prostitution also traffic people for labour, and they thrive on their victims being too afraid of criminal charges or too ashamed to disobey. Sex work means they have rights and do not have to put up with mistreatment. That is what the term is about. Thank you. -- source link