Monkeyspawn Skydiamond

A storybot from the future who found a digital time portal into this now.

[Monkeyspawn Skydiamond @MSkydiamond]

‘Lucy the Love Doll: Beginning’ and ‘Lucy The Love Doll: Middle’ available as ebook download from Kindle Direct Publishing Amazon
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[The Road Jess Travelled @JessPected]

We're told if boys see feminism it'll harm their mental health.

Meanwhile what girls are constantly bombarded with. Imagine being a girl & seeing men defend raping & dismembering girls.

[Genevieve Gluck @WomenReadWomen]

At a debate over "trans women" at UC Berkeley, a molecular geneticist said:

"Women have internalized misogyny to the point where the man's comfort takes precedence over the woman's safety.
This is the most insane thing that has happened in my life, that women are a feeling now."

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

It is the day after #GigglevTickle and I haven’t woken up believing that men can be women. You can try & punish me for not believing it, but you can never make me believe it.

Men cannot be women.

[WDI.Afghanistan @WDIAfghanistan1]

Today is Day 6 of the #OpenSchoolDoor one-month campaign for Afghan women and girls.
please join and share🙏
Under Taliban rule, Afghan girls and women are not only banned from school — they are trapped in a devastating mental health emergency.
• 80% of suicide cases and attempts are among women and girls.
• Many set themselves on fire to escape forced marriage.
• UN Women: 68% of women know at least one girl/woman suffering severe depression or anxiety. 8% know someone who attempted suicide.
Child and forced marriages have surged — girls as young as 13-14 are married off to “reduce family burden.”
This is Taliban Sex apartheid: it kills dreams and takes lives.
Please share stand up with Afghan women🙏

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

I will be on @GBNEWS with @joshxhowie at 8:45pm UK time (5:45am AEST) talking about how Giggle v Tickle made the world
laugh at Australia. Do tune in 🙋‍♀️

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“Miss Grover left the court without making any comment. She later posted on social media saying she was “absolutely devastated” & that women were being discriminated against.

… I also said, “we will all wake up tomorrow & men will still not be women.” An important point.

[Nordic Model Now! @nordicmodelnow]

Bending reality to match ideology: A critique of ‘Criminalising the Sex Buyer: Experiences from the Nordic Region’ By J. Smith

https://t.co/0jqKEDN1k5

[Nordic Model Now! @nordicmodelnow]

Bending reality to match ideology: A critique of ‘Criminalising the Sex Buyer: Experiences from the Nordic Region’ By J. Smith

“In discussions on prostitution policy, advocates for full decriminalization often cite endorsements from powerful organizations such as UNAIDS, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and The Lancet without providing evidence of any observed reduction in violence or improved safety after full decriminalization, which in fact has not been seen. Such endorsements seem to end any debate, as audiences assume that such strong support from “the experts” must be underpinned by extensive, rigorously conducted research. This assumption can cause individuals, institutions, and politicians to overlook the research that these organizations based their endorsements on in the first place.

In anticipation of a 2023 EU Parliament vote favoring the Nordic Model, world renowned medical journal, The Lancet, published a critique of the Nordic Model, advocating for full decriminalization instead (i.e. decriminalization of pimping, brothel-keeping, buying sex, and selling sex) (The Lancet, 2023). They claimed that the Nordic Model may lead to deportations of migrant people in prostitution and that, “The EU is proposing a policy that risks increasing violence against sex workers” (The Lancet, 2023).

The Lancet’s endorsement has been used as conclusive evidence that full decriminalization promotes public health and safety and that the Nordic Model undermines it. However, with millions of vulnerable people at risk of exploitation, we have a responsibility to evaluate these claims further.

The primary document used to support these claims in the editorial is, Criminalising the Sex Buyer: Experiences from the Nordic Region, a policy brief authored by Niina Vuolajärvi (2022), published by London School of Economics (LSE), which will be reviewed in this article. The author claims the Nordic Model causes “stigma,” and “marginalization” and that to protect the “safety, integrity and rights of people in the sex trade” the purchase of sex and “third-parties” must be completely decriminalized (Vuolajärvi, 2022, p. 17).

While the LSE report states that the conclusions are “based on ethnographic research undertaken over a three-year period in the Nordic region (Sweden, Norway, Finland)…”,[1] the “ethnographic research” in question was simply the author’s own dissertation she wrote while in graduate school only one year prior to the publication of the LSE report (Vuolajärvi, 2022, p. 4).

The LSE report argues that the Nordic Model de facto criminalizes the sale of sex through the regulation of immigration, pimping, and “third-parties,” and that it harms women in prostitution by increasing “stigma” and “economic disenfranchisement.” She contends: “…Only a small minority of those interviewed – 6 per cent – considered themselves to have been trafficked or forced by someone else to sell sex” (Vuolajärvi, 2022, p. 5).

This figure, cited in her dissertation, was not from her own “ethnographic research,” but originally from interviews from Mai, N. (2009), author of such works as “The Fractal Queerness of Non-Heternormative Migrants Working in the UK Sex Industry” (2013) and “Tampering with the sex of ‘angels’: Migrant male minors and young adults selling sex in the EU” (2011).

While I couldn’t find the original paper claiming only 6% of women are trafficked, there is indication from his other published work that he does not consider cases of human trafficking (as defined under international law) to be trafficking.

[…]

Of note, this professor is supportive of full decriminalization of prostitution (Mai, N., 2019) and was also on the advisory board of the baseline assessment for the Nordic Model in Northern Ireland (Huschke, et al., 2014, p. 240), which similarly concluded few women were trafficking victims.

Evidence of a high degree of human trafficking and coercion in the legal sex trade is overwhelming. Dutch prosecutors estimate that up to 70% of women in prostitution in the Netherlands were forced into prostitution either by coercion, force, or the loverboy method of human trafficking (EU Parliament, 2023). According to the 2013 US Trafficking in Person report, up to “90% of women in prostitution in Spain could be under the control of organized crime networks” (U.S. Department of State, 2013). A 2021 European Parliament commissioned study found the majority of men who buy a migrant woman for sex in the EU have bought sex from a sex trafficking victim (Di Nicola, A., 2021, p. 28) – and the vast majority of women in prostitution in the EU are migrant women (EU Parliament, 2023, p. 18; Schulze, E., et al., 2014, p. 27).

Deportation: An Abolitionist Tool?

The LSE report claims that: “Even though the Nordic countries have decriminalised the sale of sex, it is still a ground for deportation in their immigration laws” (Vuolajärvi, 2022, p. 5). The sale of sex alone is not grounds for deportation in Nordic Model countries. Working anywhere in the European Union without a work permit, regardless of the job type, can result in detention and deportation for migrants (FRA[2], 2021). The EU Directive 2009/52/EC “…requires EU countries to prohibit the employment of non-EU nationals staying in the EU illegally” (EUR-Lex, 2016).

Before 2023, Sweden required work permit applicants to have an employment contract ensuring income above the minimum (SEK 13,000 per month) to prevent reliance on social support (European Website in Integration, 2023). The 2023 update to the Aliens Act mandates that work permits are granted only to those earning at least 80% of the median Swedish salary (European Website on Integration, 2023). In Norway, permits are issued only if the applicant has specific training and skills for the job and if the role cannot be filled by Norwegian, EEA,[3] or EFTA[4] citizens (Norwegian Directorate of Immigration UDI, n.d.).

Reading the LSE policy report, one would clearly think there is a policy of targeted deportation of women in prostitution under the Nordic Model (deportation being referred to dramatically as an “abolitionist tool”, Vuolajärvi, 2022, p. 14). However, buried within her over 330 page dissertation she notes:

“…Also, countries that legalize or decriminalize commercial sex, such as Austria, Netherlands, Singapore, or New Zealand, exclude sex working migrants from obtaining work permits and/or these permits are complicated and challenging to obtain. In countries where sex work is legalized as well as in countries where sex work is decriminalized, migrants may face deportation and visa cancellation if they engage in sex work… For example, in the Netherlands, where sex work is legal, migrant sex workers are the only category of employees excluded from getting work permits (both EU and non-EU citizens). The Netherlands violates the right to be free from discrimination, as, for all other types of work, non-nationals can obtain a work permit (ICRSE 2005). New Zealand that has decriminalized sex work, may deport and cancel visas of migrants who engage in sex work. In Singapore, sex workers may be refused entry (NSWP Global Network of Sex Worker Projects 2017).”

Vuolajärvi, 2021, p. 100. [Emphasis my own]

Why did “the experts,” whose job is to give good public health recommendations, withhold this essential information that proves that the Nordic Model is not a policy that uniquely targets women in prostitution from the LSE report, conclude the opposite is true, and recommend full decriminalization of pimping, brothel-keeping, and buying sex based on incomplete information?

While Vuolajärvi claims migrants in New Zealand “may” be deported for engaging in prostitution – this is not some remote possibility – it seems every week women are denied entry, prevented from flying to New Zealand, or deported for this reason:

“…Between July 2015 and May this year [2019], 481 suspected or known foreign sex workers were refused entry to New Zealand. Another 43 were stopped from boarding or offloaded from aircraft before heading here. Immigration NZ says it’s cracking down to protect vulnerable women, often coming from Hong Kong, China and Brazil.”

NZhub, 2019

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[Jennifer Milligan💙 @soulfoodie]

@nomcebo_mkhali @Andreia_O_Nobre You absolutely are and we stand with you

[Nomcebo Mkhaliphi @nomcebo_mkhali]

I often wonder how many of you think I am doing the right thing?
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[Nordic Model Now! @nordicmodelnow]

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[SurrogacyConcern @SurrogConcern]

@JillFilipovic Radical feminists have opposed surrogacy for 40 years. It’s a despicable way to treat babies -who bond in utero with mother, regardless of egg used in the pregnancy -and an awful way in which the rich exploit the poverty of low income women. The pregnancies are also higher risk.

[StopSurrogacyNowUK @WombsNotForRent]

Ivy League standard human eggs available to purchase by anyone who has the cash, including British citizens.

[SurrogacyConcern @SurrogConcern]

People often hold adoption up as an example of a 'better' safeguarding model; but none is failsafe.

In surrogacy, there are minimal vetting checks at all.

Rest in peace, baby Preston.
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[Kara Dansky @KDansky]

There is nothing "far right," or even "right wing" about opposing gender.

Leftist radical feminists are gender abolitionists.

So-called "gender identity" is as regressive and right wing as gender. It's the same thing. It's all sexist, homophobic, and authoritarian, and it's all got to go.

[SurrogacyConcern @SurrogConcern]

We're starting to lose count of the number of cases where sex offenders have bought themselves babies.

Abolish surrogacy now.

[Sex Industry Research @SexIndustryRes]

#SexIndustryStats

[Sex Industry Research - Replies @SexIndustryResA]

My daughter has autism, and has struggled with her mental health.

What the Dutch and other assisted suicide countries are doing makes sends me into a white hot rage.

[Sex Industry Research @SexIndustryRes]

#SexIndustryStats

"The Equality/Nordic model drastically lowers total homicides, suicides, drug overdoses, depression, PTSD, sex trafficking and all the other harms to women in prostitution"

[Victoria Smith @glosswitch]

Would definitely have put that example in Hags. Then have panicked that I must have imagined something so on the nose when it comes to ageist misogyny.