Prostitution has
been called the world’s oldest “profession.” In reality, it is the world’s
oldest “oppression” and continues to be one of the most overlooked human rights
abuses of women on the planet today
Demand side of
prostitution:
- Men—or the johns: While women continue to be branded as prostitutes, whores, sluts, hookers and harlots, the users of prostituted women are benignly labeled as clients, patrons, customers and johns. It’s impossible to tackle the myriad issues surrounding prostitution, however, “without taking a hard look at these men [johns], at their characters, actions and motivations. it is about entitlement, power and control. Johns seek brief encounters where they express selfish desires without the burden of responsibility or reciprocity. they asserted that payment of money removed all social and ethical obligations.
- the profiteers, e.g., pimps, brothels, escort services, clubs, etc., in the sex industries;
- countries that complicity derive revenue from the sex industries;
- a culture that indirectly creates a demand for victims by normalizing prostitution.
According to many
sources, the sex industry and its ancillary operations in Nevada (such as loan
fraud, money laundering, falsifying income tax returns and grand theft)
Alternate solutions :
Legalization :In
Germany, legalization was supposed to enable women to get health insurance and
retirement benefits, and to join unions, but few women have signed up for
benefits or unions. The reason has to do with the basic nature of prostitution;
DECRIMINALIZATION :
failed in Australia , Sweden
Decriminalization
means the removal of laws against prostitution. In other words, buying a woman
would be socially and legally equivalent to buying cigarettes.
Decriminalization eliminates all laws and prohibits the state and
law-enforcement officials from intervening in any prostitution-related
activities or transactions.145 In New Zealand and Australia, for example,
prostitution was decriminalized at the national level, meaning they removed all
laws criminalizing prostitution, such as brothel keeping, etc. But
decriminalization of prostitution in those countries resulted in an increase in
illegal, hidden and street prostitution, and promoted sex trafficking. In
Sweden, those who sell sex are decriminalized, but the buyers, pimps and
traffickers are criminalized. In this case, decriminalization was part of an
abolitionist approach.
Advocates who focus
on the demand side of prostitution advise:
- targeting the johns and all players in the demand side of prostitution;
- abandoning the idea of legalization;
- changing societal attitudes;
- educating boys;
- enforcing the laws;
- and helping the women
Sweden’s law against the buying of “sexual services”
has been a model that could be emulated elsewhere. Sweden has clearly chosen to
resist the legalization/regulation of prostitution and to address prostitution
as a form of violence against women.
- In addition, men soliciting sex from women in prostitution need to face consequences for their behaviors, and a john school is a good first step.
- The late Norma Hotaling, an ex-prostituted woman, started “john schools” in the 1990s for men arrested for soliciting a prostituted woman. The goal was to educate men about the harm they were doing to women and girls and the risks to themselves when they engaged in illegal activity. Hotaling said that only when men’s “demand” for victims was countered would the number of victims decrease. Her “john school” project has become a model and is replicated throughout the United States and the world.
ABANDONING THE IDEA
OF LEGALIZATION.: calling for the legalization of prostitution, they are
dignifying and professionalizing the women in prostitution. But dignifying
prostitution as work doesn’t dignify the women. It simply dignifies the sex
industry.
Amsterdam is known
for prostitution. Its red light district draws tourists from around the globe
in search of sex and voyeurism. So, how did legalizing prostitution work for
Amsterdam? Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen
admitted that the Dutch experiment to end abuse by legalizing prostitution has
failed. Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen admitted that “We are in the midst of modern
slavery.”
ENFORCING THE LAWS.:
What is needed, however, are successful prosecutions of individuals and
criminal networks that traffic and pimp women. This will eliminate a
significant portion of transitional organized crime and corruption that exists
in countries throughout the world.
, Sweden is a role
model in their practice of criminalizing the buying of sexual services.
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Flesh trade very
young, on average, at age 14. In the United States, the average age of entry
into prostitution is 12 to 14 years old: "so no choice "
enduring incest,
abuse and rape by family members or acquaintances, which accommodates them to
violence and exploitation until eventually they believe this is their role in
life.
Cycle : porn :
voilence, abuse, girls believe this is role, supply
“deafening silence”
regarding racism - black women : wider hips
Porn Ban:
- sex addiction in r young people and create unsavoury expectations of appearance and performance
- due to the internet has seen a broadening of the genre to include videos depicting rape, gagging, physical abuse, vomit, faeces, and god knows what else.
The “most critical
component of sex trafficking prevention is reducing the demand for commercial
sex,” Mickelwait noted.
What
kind of culture is producing so many men who are eager to buy women and
children for sex, contributing to a $32 billion annual human trafficking
industry?…
The
same culture that produces and perpetuates a $100 billion per year pornography
industry.”
Because
that’s what pornography is. Filmed prostitution. Artificial entertainment.
Emotionless intimacy.
But,
pornography is glamorized in our 21st century American culture. It is
bright. Glowing. Normal. Exciting. Erotic. Even embraced. These adjectives are
starkly opposite from words we would use to describe the scenes of terror in
the dense darkness that shrouds women and children who are forced to suffer
agony at the hands of their captors and clients.
The demand is
rampant. And the method of supply is repelling. Victims in the sex trade are
being forced to view pornography, imitate it, and then be filmed against their
will, with no say over who will profit from it and who will watch it. And who
are these consumers? Adolescent males. Curious youth. Husbands who rationalize.
Women who seek to please. Couples who want “inspiration.” Men who prioritize
pleasure over relationship. The people surrounding us: friends, boyfriends,
parents, neighbors, coworkers.
- What pοrn teaches them is that unless you have a large penis and an eternal erection, you’re not good enough. What pοrn teaches these boys is that hands have no role to play in sex, and by all means, sex is more or less a male-dominated activity.
Such
material, he argues, is increasingly and disastrously a boy’s introduction to
human sexuality. “It’s such a bad introduction because it eliminates romance
and love. It’s only visual so you don’t realise what you’re missing – the
touching, the kissing, the communication, the negotiation of boundaries. When
you see 100,000 instances of it, it becomes the social norm. Every boy believes
this is what women want, what girls want.”
- impact of pοrnography on girls is no less. “Pοrn has been creating a mindset that if you want to be worthy of love, you have to be worthy of sexual desire, and these days: worthy of sexual desire almost equals being like a pοrn star.
- "impression that aberrant sexual practices are more common than they really are, and that promiscuous behavior is normal."
- Criminals and organized crime groups have always been the organizers and moneymakers of the sex industry. In the United States, they were the founders and controllers of the pornography industry for decades.
- Sex industries contribute to secondary illegal activity, such as money laundering, which is needed to convert illegal cash into useable funds.
- The criminal networks that traffic women are fully transnational. Some are composed of a few loosely connected individuals, while others are highly organized crime syndicates, such as the Mafia, the Yakuza, Triads and “Russian” crime groups.
AND THEN IT GOES
INTO EXTREMES LIKE : 1999,, Cambodia; live bondage sex show to his Internet
site .
His pornography web site, “Rape Camp,”
featured “Asian sex slaves” who were used for “bondage, discipline and
humiliation.” The women on the web site were blindfolded, gagged and/or bound
with ropes while being used in sex acts; some had clothespins clipped to their
breasts (
sandler faced up to
five years in jail in Cambodia for violating the law on human trafficking and
sexual exploitation
None of the women
were interviewed. No information about their well-being, experiences or wishes
was included in the news stories.
Ladies night, where
is ugly men's night ?
In choosing how
to handle the commercial growth of the Internet, Magaziner successfully
advocated for the Internet to become a “market driven medium, with no
governmental regulation.” Because the Internet is a decentralized medium he
claimed it would be impossible to censor it, so it was better to not interfere
at all. Although it is not publicly stated, the U.S. government clearly adopted
a policy of non-interference with the sex industry to enable it to be the pioneer
of online commerce. Even the worst images, such as bestiality and torture
have not been prosecuted.
Arguments against:
It's
a clear violation of Article 21 (Right
to Personal Liberty)
- Why only suppliers punished ? Demanders should be too. To combat the demand supply issue, removing suppliers will only deal to more players coming in. But removing demand will deal to longer, impact
- Don’t impose one persons own moral/ethical/world view on this subject. It can be seen as sexual freedom
Porno
is widely available – so what? We still have the ability to make a decision to
go visit a porno site or to buy a porno magazine. The main distinction is that
we have the ability to choose whether we want to visit a porno site or not
Thirdly,
my opponent mentions several sub-genres of porn such as fetishes and rape ect.
First, I would like you to find me a dedicated rape-site that is based in the
United States. The fact is, you're not gonna find one because it would violate
the Miller Test. You mind find them based in other nations, but not the US.
Thirdly,
does this make porn more harmful than homicide novels or CSI? Both contain
disgusting and perhaps violent imagery, yet we accept homicide novels and CSI
with little reservation
- Whether "the average person, applying contemporary community standards", would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest,
- Whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct or excretory functions[3] specifically defined by applicable state law,
- Whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.[4]
The work is considered obscene
only if all three conditions are satisfied.
Some
history :
- In 2013 April 18 a lawyer named Kamlesh Vaswani from Indore, M.P., filed a first of it's kind case in court seeking a COMPLETE BAN on pornography.
- Sure there have been a few requests before it also but this was the first time when the local bench was surpassed and an appeal was made directly to the high court.
- It was around mid-December 2014 when the first rumors of the present government seeking a complete ban came out
- The Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act) Chapter XI Paragraph 67, the Government of India clearly specifies online pornography as a punishable offense. The Indian Penal Code, 1860 section 293 also specifies, in clear terms, the law against sale of obscene objects to minors.
- The law as it pertains to pornography or "obscenity" is laid down in Section 292 of the Indian Penal Code, which was amended by the IT Act to include electronic data.
- If you go to the website of cyber laws India: they need revision
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