radfemblack:

books-cats-and-other-malarkey:

celtyradfem:

doms-of-okcupid:

hookedonafeeeling:

doms-of-okcupid:

andtheycalledherlesbian:

srubbish:

“fight the rescue industry” ffs

How do people NOT see this as pimp propaganda?

because NOT every sex worker has a pimp….?

this is gross. do what you want but fight the rescue industry is GROSS. for every willing sex worker there’s 1000 unwilling

can you link to a specific study that provides those statistics?

and i’d suggest reading more about the “rescue industry” via @workingitinportland …

Here is a study showing the majority of women in the sex industry want to leave. If you want more research I’ll have to get it later because I have to go to bed soon but if another radfem could take over I’d appreciate it.

Prostitution and Trafficking in Nine Countries

An Update on Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

ABSTRACT

“We interviewed 854 people currently or recently in prostitution in 9 countries (Canada, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, United States, and Zambia), inquiring about current and lifetime history of sexual and physical violence. We found that prostitution was multitraumatic: 71% were physically assaulted in prostitution; 63% were raped; 89% of these respondents wanted to escape prostitution, but did not have other options for survival. A total of 75% had been homeless at some point in their lives; 68% met criteria for PTSD. Severity of PTSD symptoms was strongly associated with the number of different types of lifetime sexual and physical violence.

Our findings contradict common myths about prostitution: the assumption that street prostitution is the worst type of prostitution, that prostitution of men and boys is different from prostitution of women and girls, that most of those in prostitution freely consent to it, that most people are in prostitution because of drug addiction, that prostitution is qualitatively different from trafficking, and that legalizing or decriminalizing prostitution would decrease its harm.”

–Source

As for @hookedonafeeeling’s claim that “for every willing ‘sex worker’ there is a 1000 unwilling” sex trafficking makes more than enough unwilling women the rest are pushed into it out of enconomic necessity.

For all those arguing that not every woman in prostitution is forced into it or doesn’t enjoy it, that point is irrelevant.

Even if it’s your choice and there’s no job you’d rather do, you are still participating in an industry which causes immeasurable harm to countless women and girls. You don’t get to argue the horrific acts committed against these people by saying “but I want to be able to do that!”

Plus which, if anything, decriminalization just makes it even more unsafe for women who have been forced int the sex industry, as it allows pimps to sit in on workers’ unions and be classified as “sex workers,” the same term used by many who campaign for legalization to refer to prostituted women. How can we talk of these women and the men who sell their bodies – whether of or against their will –  as though they were on an equal footing?

It’s an inherently sexist industry, and dismissing the cases of those thousands upon thousands of women and girls who have been trafficked and/or have had no say in their being prostituted in favour of campaigning for the few who would choose prostitution plays right into the hands of pimps, brothel owners and sex buyers.

“#SexWorkIsWork” and “Fight Racism” are two directly contradictory statements 🧐