I have no strong feelings about sex workers working under the radar in different countries because in my experience the industry is pretty elastic and that is part of the point of the job – that you can, if you are inclined, move to Australia or Germany or Japan or Singapore and do the job there. That is major perk I really really loved, so I’m not about to say someone else is immoral because they are doing it. I also have no strong feelings about reducing immigration barriers – I totally approve. But I find it totally disgusting when the government and employer are complicit in temporarily importing workers who have limited rights of residency not because there is an actual shortage (a shortage of strippers. I guffaw all over the place) but because they want to provide worse and crappier working conditions. I find it disgusting when they do it with domestic workers, I find it disgusting when they do it with farmworkers, and I find it equally disgusting when they do it with strippers – slightly more so because it is totally inappropriate and an abuse of the visa program to bring someone in to freelance.

If there is a “shortage” it is because your club sucks. Pay a stipend (like what clubs used to do) improve your marketing and the foreign strippers will show up illegally, without a visa, just like they do everywhere else.

Yeah, that story was awful. Yet, I’m also kinda miffed by how much feminist attention this story is garnering, whereas the sort of ill treatment migrant sex workers get is glossed over.