Treat Strippers as Workers, not Victims! - Sex & Censorship

Treat Strippers as Workers, not Victims! - Sex & Censorship



Treat Strippers as Workers, not Victims! - Sex & Censorship http://sexandcensorship.org/2014/11/treat-strippers-workers-victims/



"From what I can see, the very fact that licensing legislation for lap dancing clubs is included in a law that deals with crime and disorder is a clear move towards criminalisation of lap dancing. There is a clear moral campaign that seeks to stamp out all aspects of sex work by criminalising it, and lap dancing is now on the target range. Being lumped in with a general list of offences is not only misleading but degrading – as if somehow all acts of sex work are indicative of abuse. To conflate stripping with trafficking, and acts of sexual violence effectively means that strippers are by law represented as victims of abuse, which is turn sets a very dangerous precedent. When we allow this type of merger it eventually becomes all the more difficult to discern and distinguish those who are genuine victims of abuse, and those who aren’t."