Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies.

[DrAlan]

Academic, over referenced, paper about " paradigms ", whatever they are?

Anyway, maybe a few more g&t's will clarify the situation.


http://arrow.dit.ie/cgi/viewcontent....&context=ijass

[AZ99]

"Normalising prostitution through legalisation and decriminalisation regimes creates men’s sense of entitlement to own or gain access to a woman’s body through force or payment (Jeffreys, 2009). The Nordic Model addresses its anonymous perpetrators and challenges male exploitation and violence against women (Raymond, 2013). Ireland’s new law, decriminalising the prostituted person and criminalising the buyer, targets demand, challenges society’s attitudes to men’s violence against women and sends a clear message that the body cannot be sold, bought or violated."

Yes, this doesn't sound like emotive language, and it definitely represents a rational argument.

Sigh,

Note that all radical feminist discourse on sex work completely ignores the fact that male sex workers exist. That's because once you acknowledge the huge numbers of men who buy sex from other men, the whole narrative about sex work being used by men to oppress women completely falls apart.

[Aoife Irish TV]

[I]Ireland’s new law, decriminalising the prostituted person

Also that claim isn't true! The government only decided to completely decriminalize street-based sex workers, everyone else can still be criminalized in certain circumstances. For an academic paper you'd expect them to have done a better job on their research!

[Dom Dunn]

Fresh from the WIT school of feminist claptrap. Read the first two sentences and would would correctly conclude that this is essentially propaganda not worthy research.