Purpose of a system is what it does
If your "protect sex workers by criminalising clients" law ends up making sex workers homeless and forces more of us into street work, it's actually a "make sex workers homeless and push more of them into street work" law
Police brothel raids target organisers, not sex workers The persecution of sex workers steps up in Scotland under pretence of saving women which means destroying sex workers support structures. https://t.co/yGMZL4XcVR
Fuck yeah! We love to see brothel workers unionising for their rights and better working conditions.
If the U.K. fully decriminalised sex work, brothel workers here could formally unionise, claim lim(b) worker status and access the same workers’ rights as all other workers.
There’s a reason reason why the opening scenes of Different for Girls are set in a PE changing room.
I feel sharing experiences like that does make a difference. You don’t feel so alone.
And you don’t feel like it was your fault. Something abusers like to do
Sadly this is all too relatable
Even the thought of PE changing rooms makes me feel sick. I was routinely sexually assaulted by my classmates but no takes this kind of assault as serious . At least two of my trans friends have had the exact experience .
being reminded by my own post that I got sexually assaulted in the PE changing rooms by a classmate and all that happened was that everyone else in the room simply laughed and the teachers told me to 'man up' when I spoke to them about it
Decriminalization = Sex work is work. Full labor rights, no criminal penalties, no police harassment, just like every other job.
Legalization = “You can only work if the government allows it, registers you, and tracks your every move. Otherwise, you’re still a criminal.”
The SNP's Michelle Thomson asks MSPs: "Who here would tell a constituent who cannot afford to put food in their mouth that their solution is to put male members in their mouth? No one. We have privilege. The reality of prostitution will never permeate our lives."