Want to know how to make sex work safe? Ask sex workershttp://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2015/11/24/want-to-know-how-to-make-sex-work-safe-ask-sex-workers …
@IanDunt the solution is not to make sex work safer. The solution is to prevent women (and men) becoming sex workers in the first place.
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@TomChivers@IanDunt fair enough, but our aim should be to get women OUT of the sex trade not to stop them getting raped/hurt while doing it -
@JuliaHB1@TomChivers Check the piece for how decrim makes it easier for women to exit. You won't like this, but one of the best ways of -
@JuliaHB1@TomChivers doing so is addressing foreign sex worker fear of deportation. -
@IanDunt@TomChivers oh, I agree with that, definitely. I want severe penalties for the customers, not the sex workers. -
@JuliaHB1@TomChivers Again, see piece: Sex workers forced outside, hurried screening process etc. Doesn't work. Puts them at risk. -
@IanDunt@TomChivers yes, I am not disagreeing with that. But the main risk is that they are sex workers in the first place. - 3 more replies
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@pastachips or maybe I think you'd be much safer if you didn't work in the sex trade at all? -
@JuliaHB1 ok! in that case tackle poverty & make it easier for undocumented migrants to get papers & you'll prevent LOADS of ppl entering SW -
@pastachips plenty of ways to tackle the supply, agreed. I would support all of that. So why does that make me "horrible"? -
@JuliaHB1 bc this https://twitter.com/juliahb1/status/669092014416334848 … implies that yr ok w/ women like me being assaulted while we wait for ~the solution~ -
@pastachips no, it really doesn't. It simply says that the solution to the risk of sex work is not to be a sex worker. -
@JuliaHB1 ok. so what does that mean for women who *are* sex workers, right now? should we just not discuss safety? - 3 more replies
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