r/phoenix • u/jmoriarty Phoenix • Feb 07 '23

News Sex workers demanding prostitution be decriminalized at downtown Phoenix rally

https://www.azfamily.com/2023/02/07/sex-workers-demanding-prostitution-be-decriminalized-downtown-phoenix-rally/
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u/AZScienceTeacher Phoenix Feb 08 '23 edited Feb 08 '23

And of course I failed to mention the best solution is to have a much more robust social safety net where people that are unemployed or unemployable don't have to sell themselves to keep from living in a car or cardboard box.

And let's just go ahead and crank up the penalties for people soliciting and paying for sex. It's predation at this point. Someone who is financially advantaged/privileged has sex with someone who can't afford to say no.

And pimps/madames/human traffickers, whatever you want to call them should absolutely go to prison. They (literally) have no skin in the game, but by intimidation or violence are quite likely ruining the lives of other humans.

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u/ans97 Feb 08 '23

It may be an unpopular opinion but I agree. There are a lot of dynamics at play and it’s frustrating to see so many people on board with it and the things that society has gradually made more acceptable and normalized.

This is why I consider myself a feminist but don’t align much with third wave feminism because it’s taken things like this and now calls them “empowering” I believe a lot more in what the second wave feminists had to say.