Criminalizing prostitution

Here is an interesting line from the far-left Guardian….

“In some parts of the UK, up to 80% of the women working indoors are from other countries, but only a minority of them are trafficked. According to Lithuanian anti-trafficking police, even trafficked women often know that they are coming to the UK to work in the sex industry. They make the decision to come because they are living in poverty.”

This would weaken the case presented by feminist groups on anti-trafficking (plus some conservative groups as well), who want to imprint the image that ALL women from foreign countries are TRAFFICKED, and trafficked AGAINST THEIR WILLS. Ooops, how could Guardian editorials missed this line which contravene their official line? I don’t know.

I’ve always had impressions that, however pitiful their plight may be, it is hard to understand that those trafficked women did not know anything about the actual work that they had to do (prostitution) when they were recruited in Romania or Hungary or elsewhere…even though they are young and maybe mostly uneducated, at least they’ve got to have some sense of what’s going on, especially if it such a widespread phenomenon as feminists claim…

While experience and studies have shown that criminalizing prostitutions does not work, that does not matter to ideologically-driven feminists (and again, right-wingers, too). The reality needs to fit their ideology, not the other way around.

“Such a law was introduced in Sweden eight years ago, but research has shown that instead of wiping out street prostitution, it has simply become more hidden, placing the women involved in it at greater risk of violence from punters. The most socially marginalised women who work on the streets have suffered most. Meanwhile, sex for sale on the internet has increased.”

Feminists' agenda in World Cup Soccer 2006

On 3 Janury, the National Public Radio (NPR) reported about a story on the World Cup Soccer which will be held in Germany this summer. Their story? Prospect for US team in the tournament? A favorite to win the tournament? No way. Don’t forget that this is left-wing, very, very politically correct NPR. They reported on the ongoing efforts, led by German feminists, to stop forced prostitution during the World Cup. The first thing that came to my mind when I heard this story was the Superbowl hoax. Remember this hoax? – a hoax which held that during the Superbowl Sundays, instances of domestic violence increase dramatically.

Feminists tend to bring this kind of hoax up at regular intervals. The cycle goes like this - one hoax with phony facts and half-truths, much celebrated and promoted by major media is debunked by responsible media and people (but get much lesser attention by the original hoax), and eventually fade away from people’s collective memory, only to be followed by yet another hoax. But major sporting events are their favourite time to launch phony campaign- and there are a few reasons for this.

First, gender feminists don’t like major sporting events – unless of course it is women’s event. They cannot stand the fact that much spotlight is falling on men, their “potential batterer” and “potential rapists”. In their mind, men should be at home doing housework in sitting in prison attending sexual harassment courses.

Second, it is good opportunity to promote their cause. Major sporting events, especially the one like the World Cup soccer, the world’s biggest sporting event surpassing even Olympics, attract eyes and ears of literally billions of people worldwide. Why not link you pet cause to the event and raise your profile? You don’t need an advice of expensive ad agency to realize the potential advertising or “awareness-raising” value of the World Cup. Feed NPR with press releases approach media representatives, and hijacking of world’s biggest sporting events with your pet cause, at least within the elite circle who listens to NPR on regular basis, is complete.

Third, feminists cannot accept deep down prostitution, which was legalized in Germany two years ago. (do I need to mention that many gender feminists cannot stand the notion of intimate and happy relationship between male and female?) To circumvent the fact that prostitution is legalized, gender feminists have changed tactics and now focuses on “forced prostitution”. While such forced labor is unethical and illegal and thus need to be prevented, as one of their sister feminist inadvertently admitted it, it constitutes only a tiny fraction of prostitution in Germany. Gender feminists’ overemphasis on this issue reveals their true intent.