There is a new position for prostitutes.
No, not in the bedroom but in the way prosecution is going for the crime. Prostitutes have the oldest occupation on the
planet that seems to always be in demand for their unique services. The folks
in the business exchange sexual favors for money or goods and other services.
It seems to be a last resort occupation for those who can’t seem to get other
types of more convention work. Traditionally
it is the prostitute that goes to jail for the outlawed criminal act when caught
but we all know it takes two to tango. Why do their customers get to walk
freely when it is clear that they are also engaging in the sexual crime?
Finally things are changing. In
Seattle, Washington law enforcement has been arresting the customers wanting to
pay for sex. They are not trying to harass women who are caught up in the
trade. Six years ago Seattle City Attorney, Pete Holmes, adopted what is called
the Nordic Model; a strategy that aims to reduce sex trafficking by curtailing
the demand. Can anyone stop a man’s desire for sex; sex that they are willing
to pay a stranger for the act? He regards all the sex as a way to victimize women.
It is about time someone stepped up to the plate and looked at this gruesome
business through the eyes of the damaged used woman in a humane way and not
arrest the prostitutes. Hiss common sense plan of supply and demand is correct.
Stop the demand for paid unsafe sex and the providers will go away.
According to the International
Labor Organization sex trafficking is a $32 billion dollar industry and many
who are engaging in paid sex are under the age of 18 years old. It is a
dangerous business that the girls get caught up in because it provides easy
money whenever they need it, they can work their own hours and work whenever
they want or need to. They are in danger with strangers to worry about abuse,
murder and drug overdosing and of course sexually transmitted diseases some of
which there is no cure from. UGH!
Prostitution is nothing short of
modern day slavery. Seattle’s approach to arrest the buyers of sex and not the
providers is a welcoming modern day approach to the problem. For once the girls
are not being treated badly and considered dirty humans. There is a non-profit
organization called the Organization for Prostitution Survivors in Seattle. It
is a group that not only provides services for women but also counsels the men
who buy sex. Emotionally both sides are damaged people. The men who buy sex are
doing it from a very broken place in their heart. They are trying to numb the
pain they feel and are trying to feel powerful as well. The customer wants to
be in control and feel desirable when they ask to be sucked here and put it in
there.
Prostitution is called a “trick”
because the customer is paying for the illusion of love and caring. The reality
is that it is not a mutual sexual experience. There is no love involved, they
barely know each other but they engage in some crude nasty form of intimacy. In
Seattle there is even offered a 10 week class on the consequences of
prostitution. Any customer found to be engaging in sex for pay is required to
attend that 10 week course. In most states the customer just puts his pants
back on and walks away while they haul the girl away to jail for the night. Why
do most men feel entitled to pay for sex anyway?
Most cities have a zero tolerance
for prostitution. In Las Vegas prostitution is illegal yet it is an industry
that is everywhere alive and well in that city. If anyone gets arrested for sex
there the prostitute and the customer will get arrested but arrests for sex
doesn’t happen to often there. Every state has a different view of how to deal
with the pay for sex industry. Hawaii has a bill that would legalize
prostitution. North Dakota seeks to decriminalize prostitution for minors and
California lawmakers advanced a bill to decriminalize prostitution for
minors. Are these places encouraging sex with children? UGH!!!!!!!!!!!
Amnesty International calls for
the decriminalization of all aspects of consensual sex. So all wacky positions and all types of
exchanges of body fluids if they want it is ok?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Should people have the right to
run their bodies as a business? Should we be selling babies to the lowest
bidder too? Where is the ethics involving human bodies? If there were
businesses that would make sure that customers and prostitutes were safe, require
medical checks, photo identification and not have to do it in cars or dirty
back alleys would it be a safer legitimate business? In rural Nevada there are
brothels where sex is legal and regulated. No one grows up in life and says
they want to be a prostitute when they grow up. Nevada at least gives those who
are prostitutes some protection. So what is pay for sex? Is it a vice or a
lawful business? Is it sexual exploitation? Our country is still divided on
this issue. At least this business is not hiding in the shadows any longer.
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