Comments on: Prostitution: regulation, exploitation and death

By: Fourth Carnival Against Pornography and Prostitution « Carnival Against Pornography and Prostitution

Tue, 27 May 2008 12:37:01 +0000

[...] Prostitution, Regulation, Expoitation and Death post at Hoyden About Town, tigtog discusses some pros and cons to legalising [...]

By: Justice Rots in the Refrigerator Unserved and Stinking « Problem Chylde: In Her Solitude

Thu, 22 May 2008 16:50:07 +0000

[...] This is fucking disgusting. A 30-month sentence is appropriate for killing a woman? Sure, if she has sex for money! After all, if you ladies happen to think you can do whatever you want with that vagina of yours, you deserve whatever itis that you get. [...]

By: Fourth Carnival Against Pornography and Prostitution « The Burning Times

Fourth Carnival Against Pornography and Prostitution « The Burning Times — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:40:25 +0000

[...] Prostitution, Regulation, Expoitation and Death post at Hoyden About Town, tigtog discusses some pros and cons to legalising prostitution. [...]

By: tigtog

tigtog — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:21:24 +0000

The crosspost of this post to FF101 attracted some criticism, and in response I added some links to the post there, those links being: * Arguments for decriminalisation and sex workers' rights: see the Sex Worker Outreach Project East * Criticisms of the Swedish model Another very interesting post was linked by Djiril in comments there: Reaching the Media: Sex Workers Against Rape

By: Thirteenth Carnival of Radical Feminists « Shut Up, Sit Down

Thirteenth Carnival of Radical Feminists « Shut Up, Sit Down — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:17:45 +0000

[...] issues’ at the moment is the way in which prostitution should be tackled. Lauredhel presents Prostitution: regulation, exploitation and death posted at Hoyden About Town, which provides an excellent and well-researched argument against [...]

By: [Feminism Friday] Prostitution: regulation, exploitation and death « Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:50:22 +0000

[...] [Feminism Friday] Prostitution: regulation, exploitation and death Posted on April 11, 2008 by tigtog crossposted from Hoyden About Town [...]

By: tigtog

tigtog — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:07:02 +0000

That’s exactly the point I’m arguing, DD – that there needs to be a balance between regulation, decriminalisation and criminalisation which best addresses the health and safety needs of the average sex worker.

By: derrida derider

derrida derider — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:12:29 +0000

Of course “Regulation won’t stop the abusers who are more interested in the opportunity to hurt and degrade women than they are in getting professionally laid”. Lowlifes always exist, and women willing to risk their ministrations for enough money, or (far worse) suffering from a form of battered wives syndrome will always exist too.

But I’d be sceptical that legalising and regulation won’t stop some of it, and in particular make coercive practices by employers a bit less common. If a regulatory regime doesn’t do this I’d suggest its an argument for better (and better enforced) regulation rather than driving everything – including fully consensual prostitution – back underground.

By: tigtog

tigtog — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:48:29 +0000

That’s either an incompetently drafted ordinance or a deliberately loopholed ordinance. Surely a properly drafted ordinance would have enabled licence revoking for any activity within the club which constituted a crime under the vice statutes.

By: James

James — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:20:28 +0000

Not quite the same, but in Dallas, Texas a strip club couldn't have its license revoked for employing underage strippers because that's not listed in the city ordinance (unlike illegal drug use or prostitution in the club). Apologies if this was already covered here, I did a quick search of the archives and didn't find anything.