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@EllyArrow
Apr 18 • 7 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Reading about legal experts and sexologists who work with child rapists repeatedly going "oh, if they'd just pay someone 18+ for it, it's totally fine!" and the totally fine thing is cutting someone's skin or keeping someone in a basement for a dozen men a day. I'm furious.
Women in prostitution are not sponges for rape and abuse. Not only are men very capable of raping both their stepdaughter and the barely 18-year-old woman at the brothel, a disproportionately large number of women in the sex trade are themselves child sexual abuse survivors.
Some women in the sex trade have reported that men tell them "I chose you because you look like my niece/daughter/granddaughter/student". How does that make her feel esp. considering the significant chance she is a survivor of incest/child abuse? Why are "experts" endorsing this?
If you need two strong illustrations that we still live in a patriarchy, just look at the fields of sexology and law - the people who keep age of consent low and defend statute of limitations for incest/rape. Chuckfull of creeps, misogynists and let's be real rapists & their buds
The "expert" commenting on this case of women being sexually exploited in basements in 🇳🇱 actually says it may be because young women like "risk-taking" and "easy money". His words about the rapists? Oh, well men like youth, what can you do. Holy hell... rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/nederla…
Correction: The girl was 16, in a dirty basement and covered in bruises and the judges believed the men that they "accidentally" not "intentionally" raped a child and if she had been 18 this wouldn't even necessarily have been a criminal case.

#SexWork ideology protects rapists.
Minors being cast as "sex workers" has been going on for some time: ellyarrow.wordpress.com/2019/07/13/mor… According to a lot of "experts" in the area, not all paid child rape is indeed rape, cause some kids do it "out of love". One of the world's biggest pro-prostitution lobbying groups agrees

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Apr 19
Every femicide in the sex trade warrants action and no country is doing enough to stop men using lethal violence against women in #prostitution. But the radio silence on the recent case of a woman murdered in a German apartment brothel, compared to the Irish case is deafening.
I don't think anyone can prove their case on what policy is better based on homicide data alone because as far as I'm aware no country is tracking murders of women in prostitution specifically. The cases and survivor reports we do have indicate lethal violence is a concern always
In any country, call it "legalization", "liberalization" or "decrim" women in #prostitution are given advice on how to not get robbed, raped, and murdered on the job from organizations that speak of #sexwork. Clearly, it remains a significant concern under all models of law.
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Mar 9
Having made terrible experiences with window #prostitution in Amsterdam, the city plans to build a mega-brothel euphemistically called an "erotic center" instead. 100 women in rooms plus social and health service, security, hospitality, entertainment, education & cultural events. Image
In Germany, we call these places "mega brothels" and we have many of them. The biggest is the Pascha brothel in Cologne with 150 individual rooms. Such places may also include strip clubs, restaurants, spaces for concerts and business meetings. None of this has made women safe. Image
Not only are mega-brothels dehumanizing to the women in it, presenting them often based on "flavor" as in sorted by race or transgender status, bouncers and cameras have not made them remotely safe. The Pascha in Cologne has seen drug and human trafficking + 1 murder & 2 attempts Image
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Mar 9
Does your job include men you don't desire reviewing, touching and penetrating your body plus a daily fear of intimate injury, unwanted pregnancy, STIs, revenge porn, robbery, rape and murder at the hands of your clients? No? Then it's not comparable to #prostitution.
I once did an internship for a film maker and the boss made me cry within 2 days by myself in the bathroom. I guess this experience means I know what it's like to be in prostitution!! Does that make any sense? No it doesn't. Let's not pretend a desk job is remotely comparable.
I've experienced threatening and dangerous situations because of misogynistic men. This might give a little insight into what prostitution is like. But I didn't have to endure them touching me to make rent or eat and that made ALL the difference.
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Dec 6, 2022
I actually go out of my way to not say that #prostitution is paid rape for every woman in the trade. I always say "many" or "countless" or "often". I never point to individual women and say "you were raped". That's not my place and it doesn't help anyone. What I do want is...
...for the many women who felt traumatized by johns including the not overtly violent ones, the seemingly ordinary ones, who stick to agreements to be able to trust that feeling and not be gaslit into "if this upset and haunts you, you were in the wrong profession".
I do think johns should be criminalized cause I think exploitation is the rule not the exception. But additional acts of violence (robbery, strangling, sudden assault etc) should carry additional sentences which is my understanding of the implementation of the abolitonist model.
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Dec 6, 2022
I know this isn't a scientific study but I just wanna get a vague sense of what sadistic "sex" acts present in the legal German sex trade people think are harmless and what shouldn't be normalized and possibly illegal.

Let's start with hitting to the point of brusing.
Strangulation which btw is never fully safe and always carries a certain level of risk of brain injury and death
Making smn drink urine?

I know I struggle to even see this as a sex act... there's no stimulation of anything but sadism??
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Dec 6, 2022
Some people are calling me a liar for saying the commercial sexual exploitation of teenagers aged 16-17 was legal in Germany till 2008 & in Switzerland until 2013.

I wish I was lying.

But it's true. Paid rape of teens was legal.

stern.de/politik/deutsc…

cbc.ca/news/world/swi…
Now some man is defending legal CSA of 16-17 years olds saying it ain't rape. Germanys age of consent is 14 so legally he's correct. Morally however he's just exposing himself as pro nonce. Survivors of this legal child rape are adults now but they can see your comments btw.
Trying to make people have compassion for raped kids is some of the hardest work feminists have done since the first wave. When people won't even acknowledge that paid or unpaid abuse harms children it's heart wrenching even when you're not personally a survivor.
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