Prostitution: "It is high time to expose and challenge the liberal consensus"
Posted by NPNAdmin at 4/25/2008 8:21 AM 
Categories: Debate on the Issues, Anti-Pornographers Bookshelf, Media Ethics, Ordinances and Regulations, Business Ethics, Prostitution
Categories: Debate on the Issues, Anti-Pornographers Bookshelf, Media Ethics, Ordinances and Regulations, Business Ethics, Prostitution
Roger Matthews, professor of criminology at London's South Bank University, has studied street prostitution since 1985. Julie Bindel talks to him about his new book, Prostitution, Politics and Policy, for The Guardian:
Notice in the second ad the mention of "Greek". According to Wikipedia, "A call girl who is 'Greek welcome' is willing to have anal sex with the client."
See also:
Prostitution: Factsheet on Human Rights Violations (explicit language)
As recently as 1991, police in a southern California community closed all rape reports made by prostitutes and addicts, placing them in a file stamped "NHI." The letters stand for the words "No Human Involved." (Linda Fairstein, Sexual Violence: Our War Against Rape, 1993, New York, William Morrow.)
Puncturing Alan Dershowitz's Delusions about Prostitution
...Of the 100,000 prostitution-related arrests each year, the great majority of them are of women and girls; pimps and johns are much less likely to be arrested...
Liberal apologists seeking to normalize Spitzer’s behavior are forced to resort to the same lies about prostitution indulged by Dershowitz. They ignore the fact that by defending men’s right to paid sex with women, they applaud the atrocious exploitation of the same sorts of market inequalities they decry when the victims are blue-collar workers...
There is a surprisingly high prevalence of police officers demanding sex from prostitutes in return for avoiding arrest. For prostitutes who do not work with pimps (and thus are working the streets), roughly three percent of all their tricks are freebies given to police...
Dorchen Leidholdt, "Demand and the Debate"
I had never heard of a single instance in which a secretary or college professor had been flung out of a window of her workplace to her death on the streets below. And while married women were leaving abusive homes in droves, their prostituted sisters often didn’t have homes to leave. It would be six years before I would encounter the Canadian Report on Prostitution and Pornography with its finding that prostituted women in Canada suffer a mortality rate 40 times the national average. But it was no secret that prostituted women were the special targets of serial killers. How many jobs had murder as a frequent workplace safety hazard?
S.M. Berg: Hey, progressives! Cathouse got your tongue?
Globalization, racism and sexism have combined to make 2005 the first year that the market for female bodies enslaved more people than African slavery did 150 years ago.
Gloria Steinem at Smith: Cooperation, Not Domination
...there are more slaves in proportion to the world’s population--more people held by force or coercion without benefit from their work--more now than there were in the 1800s. Sex trafficking, labor trafficking, children and adults forced into armies: they all add up to a global human-trafficking industry that is more profitable than the arms trade, and second only to the drug trade. The big difference now from the 1800s is that the United Nations estimates that 80% of those who are enslaved are women and children...
Escort Prostitution: A Response to Tom Vannah, Editor of the Valley Advocate
When a "progressive" outlet like the Advocate runs ads for commercial sex enterprises, it not only publicizes them but legitimizes them. It also puts a big dent in the Advocate's moral authority. If the Advocate truly wants to
be a friend to underdogs, it needs to side with them over callous profiteers...
Email Mr. Vannah and call Gazette publisher Aaron Julien to let them know what you think.
MSNBC Investigates Human Trafficking and Prostitution in the US; Valley Advocate Advertises "Foreign Fantasies" Where "Everything Goes"
FBI agent Maritza Conde-Vasquez says the men who frequent these secret brothels should understand the girls they buy work under duress...
In just 2 years, the Houston field office of the FBI has interviewed over 100 women who say they were virtual prisoners. Prisoners forced to sell their bodies for cash, 14 hours a day, 6 days a week.
They were usually young, as young as 14 years old...
Every month the girls were given birth control injections. If the girls became pregnant, they were forced to have an abortion...
Diane Sawyer Special Examines Prostitution in America; Challenge the Valley Advocate "Rat King"
Orlando Weekly Drops Adult-Services Ads in Wake of Police Sting; "Operation Weekly Shame"
Orlando Sentinel: "Weekly's publisher: Arrests are payback" (10/23/07)
"First Amendment rights do not protect anyone from committing a crime..."
"New York Press No Longer Marketing Arm for Prostitution/Trafficking"
Another Victory for NOW-NYC: New York Magazine Drops Sex Ads
Prostitution Research & Education: How Prostitution Works
Real sexual relationships are not hard to find. There are plenty of adults of both sexes who are willing to have sex if someone treats them well, and asks. But there lies the problem. Some people do not want an equal, sharing relationship. They do not want to be nice. They do not want to ask. They like the power involved in buying a human being who can be made to do almost anything.
The Village Voice Earns $80,000/Month from Prostitution, Sex Trafficking and other Adult Ads (explicit language)
...Betty looks Vanessa over and observes that the more decrepit a hooker looks, the more they get picked up. Johns see vulnerability; they see a weakness, they see a five-dollar blow job...
Penn & Teller Think Nevada's Brothels are A-OK
...Farley shows that life inside Nevada's legal "pussy penitentiaries" is far from safe, glamorous, or remunerative. The prostitutes are often locked in. Many were sexually abused as children. Fines, tips and the owner's share typically cut into half the workers' earnings or more. "More than 80% of those interviewed told Farley they wanted to leave prostitution."
Sweden's Prostitution Solution: Why Hasn't Anyone Tried This Before?
'It's abuse and a life of hell' (2/29/08)Let's now check in with one of the leading promoters of "Massage/Escort" services in Western Massachusetts, the Valley Advocate. Here are ads from the April 17 issue. As you can see, either the Advocate's proofreader took the week off, or perhaps they are having a bit of fun with our speculations about what codes like g and GFE stand for in these ads. After all, it's only the lives of prostitutes we're talking about. Nothing important.
...Matthews completely disagrees with the notion of legalisation. Instead, he says, the punters should be deterred from buying sex, women in prostitution should be decriminalised, and a radical welfare strategy should be put in place to help them out of the trade. "You can't remove the abuse and coercion from prostitution, whether legal or not," he says, so "the answer is to clamp down on the punters, while helping the women to get out and stay out."
...In the book, Matthews describes most women he has met on the streets as "extremely desperate, damaged, and disorganised". "Many of these women, who are supposed to be 'working', are obviously off their faces with drugs and drink," he says. "Which other 'profession' would that be tolerated in?"
...all but a tiny minority want to stop selling sex...
...Such women are 18 times more vulnerable to homicide than other women, and suffer regular abuse from pimps, punters and passers-by...
...I thought, 'These women are just seen as throwaways. They service the men, serve their purpose, and can then just be disposed of.'"
"...the available research indicates that the motivation of many men is relatively low, and that in the vast majority of cases it would not take much to deter them from paying for sex."
...The book explores the failures of the legalisation of brothel prostitution. "When governments are seen to be endorsing prostitution, it leads to a massive expansion of the trade, both legal and illegal," says Matthews...
"It is high time to expose and challenge the liberal consensus."
Notice in the second ad the mention of "Greek". According to Wikipedia, "A call girl who is 'Greek welcome' is willing to have anal sex with the client."
See also:
Prostitution: Factsheet on Human Rights Violations (explicit language)
As recently as 1991, police in a southern California community closed all rape reports made by prostitutes and addicts, placing them in a file stamped "NHI." The letters stand for the words "No Human Involved." (Linda Fairstein, Sexual Violence: Our War Against Rape, 1993, New York, William Morrow.)
Puncturing Alan Dershowitz's Delusions about Prostitution
...Of the 100,000 prostitution-related arrests each year, the great majority of them are of women and girls; pimps and johns are much less likely to be arrested...
Liberal apologists seeking to normalize Spitzer’s behavior are forced to resort to the same lies about prostitution indulged by Dershowitz. They ignore the fact that by defending men’s right to paid sex with women, they applaud the atrocious exploitation of the same sorts of market inequalities they decry when the victims are blue-collar workers...
There is a surprisingly high prevalence of police officers demanding sex from prostitutes in return for avoiding arrest. For prostitutes who do not work with pimps (and thus are working the streets), roughly three percent of all their tricks are freebies given to police...
Dorchen Leidholdt, "Demand and the Debate"
I had never heard of a single instance in which a secretary or college professor had been flung out of a window of her workplace to her death on the streets below. And while married women were leaving abusive homes in droves, their prostituted sisters often didn’t have homes to leave. It would be six years before I would encounter the Canadian Report on Prostitution and Pornography with its finding that prostituted women in Canada suffer a mortality rate 40 times the national average. But it was no secret that prostituted women were the special targets of serial killers. How many jobs had murder as a frequent workplace safety hazard?
S.M. Berg: Hey, progressives! Cathouse got your tongue?
Globalization, racism and sexism have combined to make 2005 the first year that the market for female bodies enslaved more people than African slavery did 150 years ago.
Gloria Steinem at Smith: Cooperation, Not Domination
...there are more slaves in proportion to the world’s population--more people held by force or coercion without benefit from their work--more now than there were in the 1800s. Sex trafficking, labor trafficking, children and adults forced into armies: they all add up to a global human-trafficking industry that is more profitable than the arms trade, and second only to the drug trade. The big difference now from the 1800s is that the United Nations estimates that 80% of those who are enslaved are women and children...
Escort Prostitution: A Response to Tom Vannah, Editor of the Valley Advocate
When a "progressive" outlet like the Advocate runs ads for commercial sex enterprises, it not only publicizes them but legitimizes them. It also puts a big dent in the Advocate's moral authority. If the Advocate truly wants to
be a friend to underdogs, it needs to side with them over callous profiteers...
Email Mr. Vannah and call Gazette publisher Aaron Julien to let them know what you think.
MSNBC Investigates Human Trafficking and Prostitution in the US; Valley Advocate Advertises "Foreign Fantasies" Where "Everything Goes"
FBI agent Maritza Conde-Vasquez says the men who frequent these secret brothels should understand the girls they buy work under duress...
In just 2 years, the Houston field office of the FBI has interviewed over 100 women who say they were virtual prisoners. Prisoners forced to sell their bodies for cash, 14 hours a day, 6 days a week.
They were usually young, as young as 14 years old...
Every month the girls were given birth control injections. If the girls became pregnant, they were forced to have an abortion...
Diane Sawyer Special Examines Prostitution in America; Challenge the Valley Advocate "Rat King"
Orlando Weekly Drops Adult-Services Ads in Wake of Police Sting; "Operation Weekly Shame"
Orlando Sentinel: "Weekly's publisher: Arrests are payback" (10/23/07)
"First Amendment rights do not protect anyone from committing a crime..."
"New York Press No Longer Marketing Arm for Prostitution/Trafficking"
Another Victory for NOW-NYC: New York Magazine Drops Sex Ads
Prostitution Research & Education: How Prostitution Works
Real sexual relationships are not hard to find. There are plenty of adults of both sexes who are willing to have sex if someone treats them well, and asks. But there lies the problem. Some people do not want an equal, sharing relationship. They do not want to be nice. They do not want to ask. They like the power involved in buying a human being who can be made to do almost anything.
The Village Voice Earns $80,000/Month from Prostitution, Sex Trafficking and other Adult Ads (explicit language)
...Betty looks Vanessa over and observes that the more decrepit a hooker looks, the more they get picked up. Johns see vulnerability; they see a weakness, they see a five-dollar blow job...
Penn & Teller Think Nevada's Brothels are A-OK
...Farley shows that life inside Nevada's legal "pussy penitentiaries" is far from safe, glamorous, or remunerative. The prostitutes are often locked in. Many were sexually abused as children. Fines, tips and the owner's share typically cut into half the workers' earnings or more. "More than 80% of those interviewed told Farley they wanted to leave prostitution."
Sweden's Prostitution Solution: Why Hasn't Anyone Tried This Before?
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