LaBelleThatcher
13-05-12, 19:40
The very best analogy of Turn Off the Red Light and all their international friends that I have ever seen
What is strange to me now, looking back on it, is the conviction of the woman who attacked me that what she was doing served some higher good. That if she beat me hard enough and frightened me badly enough I’d go home and forget all about this prostitution business; that somehow the circumstances that brought me into prostitution would dissolve all the more thoroughly with every slap and shout and handful of hair she dragged out of me. There was such ignorance in that, it just boggled my mind. It still does.
Because it doesn't matter how much you harass and criminalise sex workers, or persecute them in the press, or take away their clients and their incomes...the circumstances that brought us into sex work will not dissolve or go away, we will just get even more desperate...and closer to the edge...
Ironically, the above quote was written by a representative of "Turn Off the Red Light" under their, increasingly unconvincing, Nom de Plume "FreeIrishWoman".
But it does prove what I have always said, they are fully aware of the devastating impact their campaign will have on the lives of the women - they just couldn't care less as long as they get their funding and their little bit of power to abuse.
What is strange to me now, looking back on it, is the conviction of the woman who attacked me that what she was doing served some higher good. That if she beat me hard enough and frightened me badly enough I’d go home and forget all about this prostitution business; that somehow the circumstances that brought me into prostitution would dissolve all the more thoroughly with every slap and shout and handful of hair she dragged out of me. There was such ignorance in that, it just boggled my mind. It still does.
Because it doesn't matter how much you harass and criminalise sex workers, or persecute them in the press, or take away their clients and their incomes...the circumstances that brought us into sex work will not dissolve or go away, we will just get even more desperate...and closer to the edge...
Ironically, the above quote was written by a representative of "Turn Off the Red Light" under their, increasingly unconvincing, Nom de Plume "FreeIrishWoman".
But it does prove what I have always said, they are fully aware of the devastating impact their campaign will have on the lives of the women - they just couldn't care less as long as they get their funding and their little bit of power to abuse.