Really creepy: A number of high-ranking NGOs tasked with development work focused on children have started referring to child sexual exploitation as "child sex work". This is not rare, but a reoccurring phenomenon. And they are directly lobbied by the pro-prostitution lobby.
https://twitter.com/HelenaBrors/status/1321487231626989568
People hear "sex work" and they think "adult" and "consenting". In practice the term is now used for anything under the sun that involves a man getting his rocks off and someone getting paid for it. Be they adult, minor, under pimp control, literally trafficked across a border...
According to UNICEF 12-year-olds can be "sex workers"! This is so sinister and with this I can no longer extend the goodwill of "well, people are just trying to use respectful language". Money is irrelevant. An adult touching or penetrating a child is rape childhub.org/en/system/tdf/…
It's bad enough to label adults in slave-like conditions meeting the international definition of human trafficking as "sex work" as the pro-prostitution lobby likes to do - but doing that with children? This literally protects child rapists. unicef.org/infobycountry/…
Let me be absolutely clear: This is not about the support worker on the ground (though if they have internalized that its work and a choice for a literal child that's bad and they're absolutely responsible) - broadly speaking this is top-down dictating of harm-denying language.
Not weird then that UNICEF is endorsing the full deregulation of the sex industry - aka instead of police pimps and sex buyers run the show since there has yet to emerge such a thing as an effective "sex workers union" anywhere in the entire world: c-fam.org/friday_fax/top…
Honestly, I cannot bear to read a document like this: childhub.org/en/system/tdf/… I am not a child abuse survivor, but I did experience assault as an 18-year-old and having what is by all international standards the rape of a child referred to as "work" is really hard to stomach.
If you're interested to learn more about the connection between (the lobbying for the deregulation and expansion of) adult #prostitution and the commercial sexual exploitation of children - here is my blog series on the subject: ellyarrow.wordpress.com/2019/07/13/how…
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