Comments on: Beware Right Wing’s “Sex Slavery” Agenda Say Chicago Sex Workers http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/beware-right-wings-%e2%80%9csex-slavery%e2%80%9d-agenda-say-chicago-sex-workers/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:51:44 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tito http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/beware-right-wings-%e2%80%9csex-slavery%e2%80%9d-agenda-say-chicago-sex-workers/#comment-58245 Tito Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:52:24 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2351#comment-58245 Legalazation the prostitution will only help the criminals. I was working with a brave soul in ecuador by the name of Mercedes Chusan. She had been in the sex industry for many years and when she want to stop her boss cut her badly. I have not seen her no more. legalizing this will not help girls like this. Poor countries have no controls on peoples that want sex with underage girls and boys and the coruption is very bad. Legalazation the prostitution will only help the criminals. I was working with a brave soul in ecuador by the name of Mercedes Chusan. She had been in the sex industry for many years and when she want to stop her boss cut her badly. I have not seen her no more. legalizing this will not help girls like this. Poor countries have no controls on peoples that want sex with underage girls and boys and the coruption is very bad.

]]> By: Eric Hamell http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/beware-right-wings-%e2%80%9csex-slavery%e2%80%9d-agenda-say-chicago-sex-workers/#comment-45185 Eric Hamell Tue, 05 May 2009 05:08:14 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2351#comment-45185 Rosenberg seems of two minds about prostitution. She quotes sex workers as sympathetic sources, yet also says, "Sex work is not noble, salt of the earth employment that just needs legalization" -- even though the facts she cites indicate that legalization, and its corollary destigmatization, are exactly what's needed to prevent the abuses she discusses. After all, if it weren't for these abuses sex workers wouldn't care so much about legalization. By saying sex work is "not noble," on the other hand, Rosenberg suggests that she views it as morally wrong, and thus that legalization wouldn't solve the problems currently associated with it, contra groups such as SWOP. Rosenberg seems of two minds about prostitution. She quotes sex workers as sympathetic sources, yet also says, “Sex work is not noble, salt of the earth employment that just needs legalization” — even though the facts she cites indicate that legalization, and its corollary destigmatization, are exactly what’s needed to prevent the abuses she discusses. After all, if it weren’t for these abuses sex workers wouldn’t care so much about legalization.

By saying sex work is “not noble,” on the other hand, Rosenberg suggests that she views it as morally wrong, and thus that legalization wouldn’t solve the problems currently associated with it, contra groups such as SWOP.

]]> By: Cassandra s. Person http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/beware-right-wings-%e2%80%9csex-slavery%e2%80%9d-agenda-say-chicago-sex-workers/#comment-26672 Cassandra s. Person Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:54:05 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2351#comment-26672 As a practicing psychiatrist in a public clinic in Manhattan, I had many prostitutes as patients. Their most urgent need was survival from the regular violence they suffered at the hands of their "Johns" (tricks) and their pimps. Most of them were b eaten, brutalized, burned, robbed and raped regularly. They were not well paid after deducting the costs of their emergency medical treatment. All of them just hoped and prayed to stay alive long enough to find a way to get out of "the business". These women were real human beings-someone's daughter, someone's sister, just like you and me. Except that they are captives in a brutal cage they cannot escape,while we are free agents. Psychiatrists do reality really well, the better we are, the better we do that. Prostitute are people with the right to dignity and agency in their own lives. I helped those I could to escape to freedom and safety. What have the rest of you done to date? Your silence is complicity. There are no innocent bystanders. As a practicing psychiatrist in a public clinic in Manhattan, I had many prostitutes as patients. Their most urgent need was survival from the regular violence they suffered at the hands of their “Johns” (tricks) and their pimps. Most of them were b eaten, brutalized, burned, robbed and raped regularly. They were not well paid after deducting the costs of their emergency medical treatment. All of them just hoped and prayed to stay alive long enough to find a way to get out of “the business”. These women were real human beings-someone’s daughter, someone’s sister, just like you and me. Except that they are captives in a brutal cage they cannot escape,while we are free agents. Psychiatrists do reality really well, the better we are, the better we do that. Prostitute are people with the right to dignity and agency in their own lives. I helped those I could to escape to freedom and safety. What have the rest of you done to date? Your silence is complicity. There are no innocent bystanders.

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