American Thinker: “Sex work” advocates promote prostitution as a legitimate occupational choice for women. Leftist activists equate sex work with workers’ and women’s rights. The recent SESTA legislation (Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act), which strikes at the demand aspect of human-trafficking, has become a rallying point for those on the left who argue that the legislation is “controversial.” According to the left, sex work is inherently pro-woman; it is “moral and should be legalized.”
One of the latest groups to glamorize prostitution is the Women’s Center at DePaul University, a private Catholic university that recently sponsored a forum to declare that sex work is a “valid” choice for women. The promoters, and others, argue that prostituted women deserve the “freedom and agency” to choose such an “empowering” occupation and “deserve” to enjoy their occupation “in safety” because it is “sexy” and “fun.” Those who engage in “sex work,” they declare, are “attractive” and “happy” individuals.
Such arguments are totally divorced from the bitter realities of life as a prostitute and are based on the myth – stubbornly and endlessly hawked by Hollywood – of the glamorous prostitute, such as the one played by Julia Roberts in the 1990 hit movie Pretty Woman. The big money and glamorous lifestyle of the fairy-tale “pretty woman” is hardly the story of the street prostitutes whose pimps force them to service up to 15 men a night. The street prostitutes age rapidly, often ending up drug-addicted, battered, and used up by age 30 or earlier. These victims are living proof that violence is part of the daily grind of the job, with drug and alcohol addiction necessary to endure the assaults and STDs that are a predictable consequence of the “occupation.” more here
“The pimps and prostituted women find ways to avoid paying the taxes necessary for regulation. Germany found that legalization did not increase tax revenues. Mafias and criminal networks don’t pay taxes. Worse, legalization increases the number of illegal brothels. In Australia, after legalization, the illegal brothels increased by 300 percent”
And that is the real sob story of the article. Prostitution is horrible because it doesn’t generate tax revenue.
The rest of that article is unsupported drivel about how women can’t manage their lives and so live nightmare existences.
Oh yeah that’s what you sent your Daughter to DePaul to Learn.
Ever notice Democrats often have a Sexual solution to problems ?
That’s because they can’t reason and talk things out, so they screw and can’t remember what the problem was in the first place.
If you can lay big pipe, yes.
Thank you ladies.
I sure hope so.
How can sex work be considered to be pro woman? It’s totally degrading and in my book that is not pro anything except saying that she’s getting paid to have sex with a desperate stupid guy. A hooker is a hooker is a hooker no matter what she does otherwise.
On top of what Geoff said, how can being a sex worker be a good choice for women while it is wrong for men to use women for sex?
If they are adults and choose it freely it should be treated like any other job. With regard to taxation let us not loose sight of the fact the nation was founded without an income tax.
The ONLY fair tax is a consumption tax, and there is no way to avoid taxation on money, however obtained if the tax is applied to whatever that money buys.
If by woman you mean some skeezy lowlife female that spreads disease, fuels the drug epidemic,increases crime, generally destroys the neighborhoods where they ply their trade and skips paying taxes on their income then yes. For the rest of us, not so much.
Lefty’s probably consider a pimp to be like a union steward….
We have to start USING THEIR words back at them:
“Well, you have to wonder what is more EMPOWERING than selling your body for cold cash? All acts of violence aside and pimps aside…of course”
That would be the question to ask.
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