NO to legalisation of the 'sex industry'
- If prostitution is a job like any other, then so is pimping and trafficking
- Prostitution can NEVER be safe
- Legalisation/full decriminalisation of the 'sex industry' leads to an expansion in this 'industry', not a decrease
- If the 'sex industry' expands then more women and children have to fulfill the demand
- Legalisation/full decriminalisation of the 'sex industry' sends a green light to pimps and traffickers
- Normalising prostitution sends the message that all women and girls are for sale
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The children's charity ChildRight reported that after legalisation in Amsterdam child prostitution rose by over 300%
Following legalisation in Victoria, Australia the number of un-licensed brothels tripled in just one year. (The Age, March 1999)
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In 1999 the Swedish Parliament put into effect a law which criminalises the buying of sexual services but not the selling of sexual services. This is a compassionate, social interventionist legal response to the cruelty of prostitution.
According to Swedish police street prostitution has declined by 70% - 80% and indoor by around 50%. (European Women's Lobby, 2001) |
"In the past we had a women's movement which understood that the choice to be beaten by one man for economic survival was not a real choice, despite the appearence of consent a marriage contract might provide. Yet now we are supposed to believe, in the name of 'feminism', that the choice to be fucked by hundreds of men for economic survival must be affirmed as a real choice, and if the woman signs a model release then there is no coercion there".
Catharine A MacKinnon
... it is the most vulnerable women who see prostitution as a ‘choice’ ... but there is no real choice unless there is a range of acceptable life options. ... As a society, we have decided that we won’t allow the sale and purchase of kidneys ... because we know that it would be the poor who would ‘choose’ to sell their kidneys for cash and that those who are more fortunate would ‘choose’ to live a healthier and longer life. (Women's National Commission, Sexual Violence Policy Monitoring Sub-group) More>>