This is a nightmare. Men do not “deserve” anything regarding other people’s bodies. Spreading this message of make entitlement is exactly the issue women have with prostitution. Fuck you and your MRA agenda.

However, I just want to correct what seems to be a significant misperception – there are many, many feminists who support sex worker rights. In fact, Canada has two explicitly feminist groups who advocate for sex workers and full decriminalization of sex work. I believe we may be the only such groups in the world:

FIRST (Decriminalize Sex Work) – http://www.firstadvocates.org / http://www.facebook.com/pages/FIRST-Decriminalize-Sex-Work-Now/186804681196?sk=wall

And in Quebec: AFS – Feminist Alliance in Solidarity for Sex Worker Rights (Alliance Féministe Solidaire pour les droits des travailleuses(rs) du sexe). http://www.facebook.com/alliancefeministesolidaire

We call the prohibitionist feminists “radical feminists” to distinguish them from us.
Thanks a lot.

“…..the [prostitution] laws are a reflection of society’s views, soundly rooted in interfaith morality, which is that prostitution is an act that offends the conscience of ordinary Canadian citizens.… The Intervenors submit that prostitution is immoral. It should be stigmatized. Prostitution victimizes anyone who engages in it. This is not prudish sensibilities: it is a fundamental societal value rooted in Charter values.… Prostitution is wrong…. It offends basic concepts of decency. Many Canadians, including some members of the Intervenors … want the government… to make prostitution illegal entirely.”

I wonder what the CLF has to say about a women’s right to abortion? Yes it is a very strange and disturbing alliance that has formed between the radical prohibitionists feminists and the Christian right in advocating the Swedish model. Thankfully most Canadians are actually in support of decriminalization especially in the wake of the brutal serial killings of sex workers in Vancouver.

I’m glad that the Canadian courts thus far have ruled that these laws are unconstitutional and are actually contributing to the violence against sex workers. But the reality is that sex workers in Canada need to get their act together and organize and advocate for our rights.

Also, I love that the girl on the right is smiling, also that her leg is disappearing.

Farley’s “research”, unfortunately, does turn up regularly in abolitionist feminist propaganda and is influential in places where governance feminism plays a role in the political order. But the fact that it dovetails with right-wing views about commercial sex undoubtedly gives it legs in more conservative areas. It reminds me of when Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin got their anti-pornography law passed in Indianapolis (hardly a feminist hotbed) – all the Republicans voted for it, all the Democrats voted against.

The main problem is that nobody is debating the issue. Sex workers and clients remain more or less in the closet in an attempt to hide their identities. While those who claim to work against trafficking continue with relentless attacks.

The ironic thing is that the people working against true trafficking never usually find or help their victims, who tend to be deep underground. Instead they generally focus their attention on voluntary workers.

We are all going to have to speak up if we are ever going to get any progress. Websites like this are a perfect first step.

Really, I simply do not understand what feminists have against the sale of sex?! Isn’t it possible that a woman could chose this as opposed to other forms of labor? Shouldn’t women have the choice of what to do with their bodies? I though this was what feminism was all about?

I would very much like to read paragraph 352, but I have no idea which link you mean. Would you edit your post to include the link in relevant location?