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Posted on 10/18/2005 9:05:10 AM PDT by Stoat
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They say it is time to end the stigma associated with the sex industry
The International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe, including members from Britain, held a news conference in the Parliament.
It was urging the 25-nation European Union to end discrimination of the sex industry.
"What we do is work and we want it recognised as that," said Scottish sex worker Ruth Morgan Thomas.
In many European states, the sex industry flourishes in the black market where women are trafficked from outside the EU to work as prostitutes.
Their passports are often stolen to prevent their escape from sex slavery.
Prostitution is legal in some EU states and tolerated in most European countries, but laws on prostitution and the legal rights of sex workers vary across the EU.
The sex workers said regulating the sector would curb exploitation and boost prostitutes' willingness to pay tax in return for rights and social protection.
Camille Cabral, representing French sex workers and wearing pink stickers reading "Sluts Unite" and "Whore Power", said it was time to end the stigma associated with the sex industry.
"You shouldn't hide yourselves, you shouldn't be ashamed," she said. "All societies should accept and give (the same) sort of statute to this profession as to any other."
The sexworkers' union is telling MEPs that because some countries do not recognise their trade, governments are breaching their human rights and EU law.
But some police forces are concerned that the trafficking of vulnerable women could rise to meet increased demand if prostitution was made legal
I'd be cranky too if I was working on my hands and knees all day.
"Ooooo la barf!"
Satan must be proud!
If they recognise it as work, they ought to drown it in EU regulations, which will kill the entire industry.
Problem solved.
Regards, Ivan
Replace "sex worker" with the actual term, "whore", and see how receptive the EU countries are.
People pay that thing?
"Sex worker"? Gee. Nice euphemism.
How about "Horizontal bopper" or "Sore knee serf"?
Ugh.
I suppose it does take some long, hard work to be a sexworker, but I would like to see their compensation stripped of benefits anyway.
Exactly and the gal in post #4 has seniority.
One look at that face and you know why the birth rate in Europe is in decline.
I can certainly see why she's a union rep.
How about "Horizontal bopper" or "Sore knee serf"?
Ugh.
Or simply, "Member of Congress".
Once the industry does start to die, however, it will be pseudo-nationalised through EU subsidies to be kept alive and there will be a ban on "imports" from Russia and Asia.
Meaning, of course, that not only will it be more or less dead, but an international embarassment, complete with the French posturing about how their prostitutes are still the prettiest in the world while everyone else is laughing at them.
Regards, Ivan
So perhaps the EU involvement would manifest itself in a big stack of forms that 'clients' would need to sign in order to gain the 'services' of a 'sex worker' ?
Retirement plans? Easy disabled access? Government-constructed 'work' facilities? Government-sponsored job training? Pimp training?
The small and furry stoat brain shudders at the spectacle.
I'd think that the picture in post #4 would preclude any possibility of their doing that.
Let them put in union work rules, including seniority, and the problem is solved.
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