I know everyone else will post this but I can't leave it off. I'm disgusted at humanity right now and our intent on continuing the slave-trade and the desire to demoralize humans as product. We will use any excuse to make prostitution legal. We will come up with any way possible to continue to subject women, men, boys and girls to its harm and call it good.
Here's an article from the Vancouver Sun on the legalization of prostitution and the ability to make a brothel non-profit. Like that could ever happen!
Vancouver councillor calls for city to open a non-profit brothel
November 10, 2005
Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER (CP) -- A Vancouver councillor is calling for the establishment of a non-profit brothel, owned by the city, to help drug-addicted prostitutes.
Tim Louis told The Vancouver Sun's editorial board that he favours a red light district to help protect calls "survival" sex trade workers.
Louis, of the left-wing Committee of Progressive Electors (COPE), said there would be many benefits of a brothel being run on a break-even basis, with the availability of medical services and drug treatment.
Another COPE councillor, David Cadman, said he would want to study the idea of setting up a city-run brothel and get a lot of public dialogue.
Sam Sullivan, the mayoral candidate for the centre-right Non-Partisan Association, said he was appalled by Louis's comments.
He said the "the goal should be to help these women get out of the survival sex trade, not keep them in it."
Sullivan said he doesn't want to "get into the business of being a pimp."
But Vancouver East MP Libby Davies, who is vice-chairman of a parliamentary committee examining the need for legislative reform on prostitution, said she's not surprised by the suggestion.
Davies said the committee wants law reform that focuses on the issues of exploitation and harm.
The committee, which held cross-Canada hearings and interviewed sex trade workers and municipalities, will issue its recommendations within weeks.
(Vancouver Sun)
2 comments:
Nina,
It should scare you. Non-profit brothels will only benefit the prostitution and commodification of men, women, boys and girls who are sold for profit. They are not commodities - they are people.
Love you too!
Joy
They aren't even trying to get them out of the trade! I have a hugely cynical mind - however, I will refrain from saying what that says to me, and just say this: to have a non-profit brothel, (what is that anyways, is that just another way of saying legal, cause if so, call it that, exactly what it is, a legal government funded brothel.) is an easy way of writing a cheque and washing your hands of a situation. Helping them out indeed - more like empowering them to stay in their unfortunate situations.
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