On a legalizing prostitution discussion at the NYT site Stella Marr has shown just how much journalism she has learned by citing NYC street skanks as authorities on legal brothels in Nevada.
It is pitiful watching someone embarrass themselves like that.
Like I heard from some guys from Afghanistan that the CIA is actually planting those IUD’s.
ANYTHING sexual between two consenting adults is legal. (without compensation)
A woman can be paid to have semen put in her and grow a baby for someone else.
A woman can pay a man to enter her vagina and kill a growing baby.
Limiting sex work is only about controlling the flock of men by femi-nazis.
Because the post could be “modified” I present here
Nevada’s Legal Brothels Are Coercive, Too
Stella Marr is a founder of of Survivors Connect, an international network of trafficking and prostitution survivors. She blogs at “My Body the City: The Secret Life of a Call Girl” and is writing a memoir.
Updated April 20, 2012, 9:18 AM
Well-meaning people who’ve never been commercially sexually exploited often think that legal brothels will protect the women in prostitution from pimps and violent johns. They are mistaken.
In the 10 years I worked in New York City’s sex industry, where the pimps were part of organized crime and could follow through on any threat, I met many women who’d experienced Nevada’s legal brothels. They all preferred the New York sex industry.
If we legalize brothel and escort service pimping we’ll only be giving these predators more power, while we help them protect their cash.
Women who worked in Nevada’s legal brothels said they were like prisons where you have to turn tricks. Rimmed with high-security fencing and an electronic gate, they can look like a detention camp. The women live in lockdown conditions and can’t leave the premises unless they’re accompanied by a male pimp. Living and working in cramped, dark rooms, they’re on call 24 hours a day. This is what happens when the law protects people who profit from commercial sexual exploitation. It’s the ideal business model. It’s the best way to get a woman to turn as many tricks as possible.
Most of the women I knew in the brothels and escort services, had a history of trauma and abuse. I was homeless at the time I entered the life and, had multiple sclerosis. That vulnerability makes them even more easily victimized by pimps. And pimps don’t stop being pimps when you legalize what they do. If we legalize brothels we’ll only be giving these predators more power, while we help them protect their cash.
As the prostitution survivor and activist Natasha Falle has said, “Where there’s high-track prostitutes, escorts, strippers and masseuses; there’s pimp violence.”
MOST of the world has legalized prostitution. Silly girl.