links for 2009-01-13
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"But, because someone uses their body to make money in a way some group of (almost invariably) old people decrees as illegal, the police believe it is acceptable to further humiliate them publicly. It’s an endless, vicious cycle – the police arrest them, and they are forced to go back out on the street to earn more money to pay the bail, attorney’s fees, fines, and court costs they incur in addition to that which they need to support themselves and their families. Whereupon, of course, they’re often arrested again, perpetuating the cycle. What a waste of resources, both in terms of money and in humanity. It stupefies me that lawmakers and politicians don’t see the discordant irony in that and take some legitimate, serious, concrete measures to solve the problem rather than contribute to it. But, of course, they’re just hookers, right? Sometimes it’s hard to believe we’re actually living in the 21st Century."
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"But all of this keeps our analysis and our conversation in the realm of sex blogging and we need the conversation to ripple beyond that. Prostitution and other forms of sex work are of concern to writers and readers of all sorts. I'd encourage those readers who are bloggers but not necessarily sex bloggers to take up the issue now and then. Human rights, worker's rights, freedom, autonomy, an economy based on jobs that can support a decent standard of living, policy based on evidence rather than ideology, these are things we all have a stake in."
Jan 13 2009 07:30 am | Category: del.icio.us links
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