![]() ![]() Prostitution has become a chameleon, adapting itself to all ideologies. To the women’s movement, prostitution was sold as a woman’s right to her own body to neoliberals, as a symbol of the free market to the left, as “sex work” needing unions and labor laws to conservatives, as a private agreement between two consenting individuals outside of society’s interference to the LGBT movement, as sexuality demanding its right to expression. Prostitution is no longer seen as a feudal, patriarchal remnant-it is subversive, liberating, even feminist. The “sex work” discourse has turned the world’s oldest profession into the world’s most modern profession. ![]() “Sex-workers rights” has increasingly become a euphemism for the rights of pimps, brothel owners and men who pay for sex. ![]() When it came to light that the vice president of one of the “sex-workers organizations” consulted by Amnesty International over its prostitution policy was a sentenced human trafficker and pimp, many abolitionists were appalled, but not surprised. ![]()
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