Posted on 12/23/2019 9:32:11 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The nation’s foremost leftist legislators are lending their voice to a new piece of legislation that is being heralded as the “first step” toward legalizing prostitution in America.
The SAFE SEX Workers Study Act, introduced by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), would toss taxpayer money into an in-depth study on the effects of two anti-sex trafficking bills that became law last year, the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act and the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA/FOSTA).
The bill is co-sponsored in the House by Rep. Barbara Lee of California and in the Senate by Ron Wyden of Oregon, both Democrats.
Sen. Warren had initially voted for SESTA/FOSTA, but now expresses her concern about the unintended consequence of making consensual prostitution more difficult.
“As lawmakers, we are responsible for examining unintended consequences of all legislation,” Warren said in a statement on Tuesday according to Buzzfeed News. Warren added that her duty to study the law she helped enact “includes any impact [FOSTA-SESTA] may have had on the ability of sex workers to protect themselves from physical or financial abuse.
“Sex workers have relied on such internet platforms to screen clients and negotiate boundaries for consensual, transactional sex services, including condom use and other harm reduction strategies,” Khanna said in a press release on Tuesday. “While SESTA/FOSTA was intended to curb online sex trafficking, by banning the ‘promotion of prostitution,’ a host of internet platforms relied on by sex workers have shut down.”
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I thought they were convincing everyone that heterosexual marriage was prostitution, but every other kind of arrangement was OK and “life-affirming.” :)
They would do better to turn off the spigot of pornography and start prosecuting obscenity and distribution again, especially as relates to children, and to broadcasting and Hollywood standards. Also government bully pulpits should publicize the concept of sex addiction and urge “sufferers” to get into 12-step groups and recovery programs. The 60s ruined everything.
Maybe the sex workers could just form a cooperative to advertise their wares online???
A victimless cooperative dot com
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