Magdalene Laundries are not from distant history. The last one closed in my home town in 1996, not that long ago, not really. A lot of the victorian-style ideologies around “fallen women” that led to the abuses in the laundries have not been examined and still exist, and organizations like Ruhama have not changed their colors. I almost expect a patronizing attitude from catholic orgas like them, but it really gets to me how much support the turn on the red light campaign has gotten from irish feminist organizations.

ah, okay, thanks for clarifying Wendy. Although I still don’t really understand what the hell is up with Ireland.

Except those laundries? And any “rescue” organization associated with such things – super creepy and horrible.

Sorry, I should have said “soliciting is defined to apply to people who are buying or selling sex”, not to the buying or selling itself.

One of the key players in the Turn Off the Red Light Campaign is Ruhama, a rescue organisation founded by two of the religious orders who used to run the Magdalene Laundries, in which prostitutes and other vulnerable women were imprisoned, worked like slaves, physically and sexually abused and sometimes simply disappeared. Ruhama were founded in 1989, the last Laundry closed in 1996.

the FUCK kind of country are my people from? Seriously flabbergasted.

unless….nah, couldn’t be because men are happy to have access to our bodies while we’re denied full access to our own.