Sex workers haven’t been organizing? Where have YOU been?

Excellent round-up of sex workers’ rights orgs and what they’ve been doing, from Aspasia. And a little schoolin’.

Here’s a suggestion for you. It’s radical and subversive: LISTEN TO ALL OF THEM! The first two camps are the sex workers who do and have always comprised the sex workers’ rights movement. The group of ex-sex workers who want to abolish sex work are usually found with other abolitionists, like the Melissa Farley site she linked to in another comment with this statement, “They did some studies on prostitution. According to them, like 90% of prostitutes polled in 3 different studies by 3 different organizations said they’d like to leave the industry”. This tired statistic continues to be trotted out and anyone with half a brain cell would ask, “which prostitutes?”

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Oct 24 2008 10:09 pm | Category: Blog | Tags: , , , , | Comments Off

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