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AboutDear Reader: Download Booklet: Prostitution: “The Zone” of Raw Male Physical and Sexual ViolenceAs Linda Fairstein, a Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor, observed in her book Sexual Violence: Our War against Rape, it is unlikely that any “lifestyle exposes a woman to the threat of assault and gratuitous violence as constantly and completely as prostitution” (p. Despite the twenty intervening years since she penned those words and the tremendous amount of effort that has been exerted by activists to expose the harms endemic to prostitution, we find no reason to believe that this situation has changed. Prostitution continues to constitute “the zone” where men may exercise raw physical and sexual power over those they buy for sex.Studies characterize the violence that animates prostitution as brutal, extreme, common, stunning, normative, and ever-present.
Indeed, physical and sexual violence across prostitution types is pervasive—whether one is prostituting in Chennai or Chicago, indoors or outdoors, for drugs or to pay the rent, on a street corner, in a car, back alley, brothel, massage parlor, or strip club—both the threat of, as well as actual violence, permeate everyday existence in the zone. In any context outside the commercial sex trade the types of heinous and outrageous abuse experienced by those in the sex trade would be the focus of global opprobrium and action. But in the current order, as long as this violence is contained within the context of the sex trade, where women and other prostituting persons become public sexual property, their trauma is commonly and conveniently reduced to an “occupational health issue” or “workplace violence.”As you review the statistics on the physical and sexual violence in prostitution provided below, imagine what would happen if 25, 50, or 89% of the females working in schools, financial or medical institutions, at your local supermarket, or favorite restaurant were subject to the same kinds of violence. Would the world tolerate the phenomenon, tell women that the violence was merely an on-the-job hazard, describe their rape as theft of “services,” or thrust the responsibility for the violence on them by coaching them on a myriad of methods to reduce the risk of violence? Such a response is unimaginable for women outside the zone of prostitution, but for women and others inside the commercial sex trade such perversity is the stuff of daily life.Overwhelmingly, the persons purchased for sex are women (but also include male and female children, transgendered males, and prostituting men), and those doing the purchasing are men. Without question, the vast majority of physical and sexual violence inflicted on those in the sex trade is perpetrated by those purchasing persons for sex—the sex buyers.
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While sex buyers may be the principle perpetrators of this savagery, in many cases their exercise of violence is given license by institutions, societies, and governments that establish and endorse various regimes of legal and decriminalized prostitution.Full decriminalization of prostitution, in which the laws regulating the activities of pimps, sex buyers and sellers are eliminated, represents the most egregious response to the commercial sex trade. Such an approach transforms pimps into entrepreneurs and sex buyers into mere customers. While decriminalization may redefine deviant and criminal behavior, it is incapable of transforming pimps into caring individuals who have the best interests of prostituting persons at heart, or metamorphosing sex buyers into sensitive, thoughtful, and giving sexual partners. Decriminalization of prostitution is powerless to change the essential, exploitive nature of commercial sex, and tragically grants it free rein.As you review the information below, it would be easy to let the redundancy of the egregious violence of prostitution wash over you, to let it become a dull and repetitive refrain. Please fight against the tendency to become anesthetized and indifferent to the atrocities documented here. Please read this and weep for the lives destroyed by prostitution.
But then wipe away your tears and stand with us in zealously fighting against the institutions and social forces that sanction the zone of physical and sexual violence commonly referred to as “prostitution.”Sincerely,Lisa ThompsonVice President of Education and Outreach. Download Booklet: Prostitution: “The Zone” of Raw Male Physical and Sexual Violence.
Indicative of the violence inherent to prostitution, a manual providing health and safety tips for prostituting persons produced by the St. Decriminalized prostitution refers to the removal of laws criminalizing the sex trade. One form of decriminalization—commonly referred to as the Nordic model—targets only individuals involved in the selling of sex (i.e. Prostituting persons); other forms of decriminalization may seek to decriminalize all parties involved in the provisioning, buying, and selling of sex. Thus, “full” decriminalization refers to the repeal of laws pertaining to pimping, brothel keeping, and sex buyers, as well as those who sell sex.Legalized prostitution is generally understood to be regulated prostitution, although the term may also be used to refer to jurisdictions where there is no law explicitly prohibiting prostitution. Under systems of legalized prostitution, various regulations governing how commercial sex transaction are to be conducted are instituted. Such regulations may include brothel licensing requirements and restrictions on where brothels can locate, as well as establish requirements that prostituting persons officially register with the government, undergo compulsory health checks, and pay taxes on proceeds from prostitution.A third approach to prostitution is known as prohibition.
According to this approach all prostitution is viewed as criminal activity and all activities connected with prostitution (i.e. Soliciting, procuring, pimping, brothel keeping) are criminalized. A 2013 of 150 countries from the London School of Economics found that wherever prostitution was legal, sex-trafficking tended to increase, not decrease.Further, the state of (the only state in the U.S. With legalized prostitution in select counties) has the highest rates of an illegal sex trade in the country, adjusted for population.
It is 63% higher than the next highest state of New York and double that of California.Why? Because once something is legal, there is an increased demand for it.And because prostitution is inherently dangerous and harmful, there are not many women or men who enter into it “willingly.” This means that sex traffickers push victims into the sex trade through force, fraud, or coercion in order to make a profit off of the high demand for commercial sex.It is essentially impossible for sex buyers to vet and know if the person they are purchasing for sex is a sex trafficking victim or not. Most sex trafficking victims are not held in dungeons with literal chains but are instead imprisoned through psychological coercion and threats, so that they can meet sex buyers at various locations. The debate about choice in prostitution is always focused on those with the least power and control in the whole equation: the prostituting person.
It’s time to discuss the choices of those with the real power—sex buyers, pimps, corporate interests, and governments—and hold them accountable for their choices to promote and participate in sexploitation.If for nothing else, America is known for the bonanza of choices it presents to those living within its borders, and the freedom it extends to those individuals to pursue them. From the trivial, like what kind of milk (i.e. Skim, 1%, 2%, whole, dairy, almond, soy, and a wide assortment of blends) and coffee we drink (ice mocha latte with a shot of espresso, anyone?), to the serious, like the occupations we pursue and those we elect—and everything in between—America affords its residents a cornucopia of choices. Indeed, choice and freedom are viewed by many as part of the American birthright.In this context, supreme value is placed on the ability to choose, but not on what is chosen. As long as a perception of the freedom to choose exists, most people are happy to let others pursue whatever course they will. However, this “it’s your choice” approach to life, is not without its downsides.
Just ask any recently divorced person who was traded in for someone younger and hotter how they feel about their ex-spouse’s choice to move on. Or consider the lives being lost because of the new wingsuiting craze that has motivated people to jump off mountains to experience “flying” but who tragically plummeted to their deaths. Clearly, then, not all choices are created equal.This is especially true of prostitution.
But, ask anyone involved in advocacy efforts or providing social services on behalf of prostituted persons, and they will tell you about the all-too-familiar, pro-prostitution, trump card otherwise known as “the choice argument.” It usually goes down like this: whenever a debate about prostitution arises, pro-prostitution advocates play their “choice card” by raising an argument which asserts that as long as prostitution is chosen, it no longer constitutes exploitation. Any harms that result are just the cost of poor decision making and the full responsibility of the person making the choice. The intended result is to shut down any arguments about the harms, the violence, the inequality, and dehumanization that are all part and parcel of prostitution. After all, to be anti-choice is to be anti-freedom, a proponent of oppression, and an unreasonable puritan, right?
Without doubt it’s been a powerful tactic, but let’s examine the claim more carefully.According to this view, no matter how injurious, dangerous, or pernicious the choice to prostitute may be, we must simply sit back and accept prostitution as a fact of life—as long as it is chosen. But as author and women’s advocate Rebecca Whisnant explains, “That something is chosen or consensual is perfectly consistent with its being seriously oppressive, abusive, and harmful—to oneself and/or to a broader group of which one is a member (e.g. Women).” We wholeheartedly agree.There are lots of choices one can make: to jaywalk, eat foods loaded with trans fat, drive above the speed limit, not wear a helmet while riding a motorbike, smoke, handle a loaded gun, or go wingsuiting in the Alps and many more. But as a civilized society we recognize that choices such as those listed above are potentially harmful to the individuals who engage in them, as well as others around them who don’t. In light of these dangers, society attempts to make rules, restrictions, and barriers on such activities, and in some cases even bans them. Why should it be any different for an activity as imbued with as much risk as prostitution?To the extent that prostitution is ever truly a choice , it’s a choice fraught with danger, and not just run-of-the-mill office place dangers (like slipping on wet floors), but physical and sexual violence that includes things like stabbings, rape, gang-rape, degrading sexual acts, choking/strangulation, beatings with fists or hard objects, kidnap, stalking, threat with a firearm, and torture—to mention a few. (For more on the physical and sexual violence native to prostitution, see our booklet.)Given this degree of potential harm, prostitution hardly seems like a choice that any caring society would sanction.
But that’s exactly what happens when governments legalize or decriminalize prostitution—they choose to allow the vulnerable, the desperate, and the reckless to become the prey of the greedy, powerful, selfish, and lascivious. They choose to ensure that a pool of persons are always on supply as public, sexual property, disregarding the many lives that are offered up and the cost to individual bodies, minds, and spirits.Ironically, the debate about choice in prostitution is always focused on those with the least power and control in the whole equation: the prostituting person. Those with the real power—sex buyers, pimps, corporate interests, and governments—are rarely, if ever, held accountable for their choices. Indeed, if sex buyers stopped choosing to buy sex today, the entire sex industry would disintegrate tomorrow.Of course, no one is holding their breath waiting for that to happen. However, those who care about people in the sex trade can choose not to build a super highway to sexploitation by fully decriminalizing or legalizing prostitution, but to shrink the opportunities for pimps and sex buyers to operate by creating and enforcing tough penalties on their activities, and fostering pathways out of prostitution for those already in it. That’s the only choice that fosters dignity, wholeness, life and true freedom.
Argument #1: Prostitution is sex work.Response: “Sexual exploitation is nobody’s ‘job.’”Several years ago the advocacy group Women Hurt in Systems of Prostitution (WHISPER) developed a powerful tool that communicated the extent of the harms experienced by persons in prostitution. Just what was this tool? Answer: a “job” description.Few things undermine the myth of “sex work” like a detailed list of exactly what people caught up in the sex trade are expected to do¾night after night, day after day, month after month, year after long, miserable, interminable year.
For those readers of stout mind and heart, you can read that “job” description. However, for those who are triggered by depictions of sexual abuse and violence, do yourself a favor and skip the link. The United Nations defines human trafficking in Article 3, paragraph (a) of the as:“the recruitment by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.
Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services”.
This is my NaNoWriMo entry Part 3.Every 31 minutes someone is murdered.Well I tried to set off a chain of murders in the same town. While they were feasable, though rather graphic coz of the need to commit the murder and move to the next by the given time, there is a feeling of dissatisfaction. It was all a bit too much violence. It gave the impression that this is all about gratuitous violence.
I hate gratuitous violence!A book of murders, one after the other, with no investigations, just murder, murder, murder, would be horrendous! It would be tantamount to voyeurism! Not to mention a hand-book on murder methods! Sorry, for the unenlightened, that means yukko! Now where was I?. I’m also inclined to think that it would pall for the readers very quickly, it would become tedious, and ho-hum, and nothing kills off a story faster than tedium.
Except for you psychopaths out there on the look-out for new victim possibilities and new ways to dispose of them, to get your kicks.What I really want to do is show the full picture surrounding your murders. The investigations. The false leads and the final solutions. The solving of your crime is the real point – not the crime itself. For it to work there needs to be a separation between your crime and us, the onlookers, the voyeuristic solvers of the all-important mystery.
To work out the solution before the detective or the cops get there, is a bonus.Then I thought that perhaps I need to jump the next group of murders to a different city on a different time line that would match up with my 31 minutes gap. That could be the way to go.
This way you serial killers could stand down, and they could become isolated domestic murders, or sexual murders, or murders done for the most popular reason – money! Greed.That would allow me to have you (plural) commit your murders in daylight and not all at night. I mean would you murder at 3am?
Well I s’pose some would. This would take the focus off you individually, singular, and spread it out over the crimes, which would diffuse the intensity of it all in one way, but make it really awful in another. To think that around our world there is so much hate and greed and insensitivity to good and evil, right and wrong.‘Course that leads into another whole topic altogether – the rightness of some people’s right compared with that of another people’s right; and the fact that each thinks the others is wrong. So it’s more a matter of good and evil. There are some things that, no matter what culture you are from, are considered evil.
But then you psychopaths of this world seem to have sidestepped the gene governing this issue, this human factor.I just had another thought that could mess this all up. Bugga.What if this ‘every 31 minutes’ isn’t actually every 31 minutes?!
What if it has been averaged out.I mean that would make more sense wouldn’t it. There are places in this world where people are killed, slain, thus murdered en masse. Like the High School massacres.
Like the Twin Towers on 9/11. And car bombs. And trains and buses and their stations, bombed above and below ground.
‘Course these latter horrific crimes are committed by you murdering bastards who use doctrine as a shield to satisfy your need for violence. They are ‘you plural’ murders!And do we include war casualties or not? They are a kind of murder – well they are murder, just sanctioned murder.
But I doubt if they were included in the statistics. This throws my whole plan into disarray. Not that I think it was working very well in the first place.
S i g h.Okay so I take another tack then. If I can’t use the 31 minutes as the guide then I need to bunch them up, spread them across the World. A mass killing here. A single secret murder there. An accidental then covered up death elsewhere. Kirk rudy 527 tabber manual lymphatic drainage techniques.
If I do that then it’s back to the appearance of gratuitous violence. I can feel myself going off this idea rapidly.Maybe a combination of them all.(C) Copyright Jud House 7/11/2011.