..from what i have seen and understand from the streets of vancouver is that progressive movements on the dtes want the sex trade individuals to come into the fold. not stay isolated as they have been for many years. this is begining to happen and from this place i would think the discussion over the differing views could takes place. my greatest fear is if left isolated the sex trade violence will continue and most certainly increase. recently i have read an article from greece that since the austerity regime sex trade is on the rise. this should be a concern to us all as we face harder times. edit
..from ricochet
Violence is refusing to acknowledge that the vulnerability experienced by sex workers is due to the criminalized, stigmatized, devalued and systemically disempowered climate in which they live and work.
Violence is silencing and endangering a small group to uphold the delusions of the ruling class.
Violence is when someone shrugs and asks what sex workers expect after they report harassment from police officers.
Violence is accepting violence as normal and natural, so long as it’s against someone else.
Violence is calling sex workers “whores” who “sell their bodies.” This language suggests that sex workers are things to be purchased rather than lucid, valuable people who make choices, among others, to market and sell services.
This language also keeps the victim stereotype alive. If people are bought and sold as body parts, isn’t that dehumanizing? It would be, if the myth were true. But no sex worker sells their body. They are not passive ragdolls, slaves for the enjoyment of ravenous perverts, as the pornographic imagination might wish to believe. Believing that a certain kind of person is passive and consumable is certainly dangerous, as we have seen in the “for their own good” discourses spewed throughout the passage of Bill C-36.
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