Punish the men who pay for sex, rather than the women lured into that life

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2024-08-27 10:50

Article here. Excerpt:

'Feminist and advocacy organisations, such as UK Feminista and Cease, are putting this question to the Labour government, with its breathtakingly ambitious target of halving violence against women and girls. Does the government see the vulnerable women harmed by male sex buyers – one nine-country study found almost seven in 10 prostituted women were suffering from PTSD – as worthy as other female victims? There are encouraging signs; two home office ministers, Diana Johnson and Jess Phillips, are former officers of the APPG (all-party parliamentary group) on commercial sexual exploitation, which has recommended that prostitution should be recognised as a form of violence against women and that the buying of sex or profiting from the prostitution of another person should be criminalised. Phillips last month pledged the government would look at all levers to reduce the demand for commercial sexual services to protect women from exploitation.'

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If you stop punishing the hookers but only the punters, you'll have more street-walkers than you'll know what to do with. But buying sex is already illegal; if caught in the act, both buyer and seller are arrestable and prosecutable. Re-casting hooking as a form of "sexual exploitation" will do nothing to stop it.

My suggestion? Legalize but regulate it. It's the only practical way to get a handle on it in re real trafficking of unwilling hookers.

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2024-08-27 16:34