The French Anti Sex Work/Sex worker Law implicated In Sex Worker Murder

[Cassandra]

At the end of the day it's a cheap bit of grandstanding that makes incompetent governments look good. It also serves as a handy excuse to ignore all the areas in which actual human trafficking and migrant exploitation occur. Lord forbid, they did look where they should and *several* supposedly legal industries collapse. Jesus it's like they'd have to acknowledge the cute hors rather than migrants or whores within their own society are the problem. Lol.

[JMastodon]

Forgetting my previous post for a second. It's just gotten me thinking a bit.

That is exactly the problem: this law had sweet F all to do with trying to help escorts or victims of human trafficking, all it ever was was a vendetta against paid sex led by a bunch of bigoted dinosaurs who refuse to enter the 21st centrury. End of.

I covered this in that thread I made a few nights back, but the fact is that no matter how many laws are thrown against it, the demand for sex work can never be eliminated, and therefore sex work itself can never be eliminated. It is impossible. By fighting against it by throwing together meaningless, ineffectual laws like this, you're only making matters worse for those involved, whether they are genuinely independent or whether they are forced/coerced. So instead focus on making it much safer, focus on bringing it from up from the underneath rather than further underground which is exactly what this law has done. Targetting clients is pointless, instead focus your energies on finding the genuine victims of human trafficking, finding the people responsible for it and bring them to justice.

The distinction between consensual, truly independent sex work and non consensual human trafficking has got to be made, for everyone involved.

Only then can things get back on track.

Yes, the conflation of forced prostitution with commercial sex work (consenting adults) has always made my blood boil!