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Do sex workers deserve to be named and shamed in the media?

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homeo · 16/03/2013 23:11

Irish tabloid SundayWorldNewspaper has posted a video showing a sex worker's face and address. The reporter pretends to be a client but goes in with a hidden camera.

twitter.com/AlisandeF/status/308165744452046849

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ArtexMonkey · 16/03/2013 23:15

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Woofers · 16/03/2013 23:16

Not the sex workers but those who run them should be named and shamed

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RatPants · 16/03/2013 23:18

And the clients.

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homeo · 16/03/2013 23:19

So why isn't there an outrage when innocent sex workers are exposed by the media for no reason other than they are sex workers?

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homeo · 16/03/2013 23:22

www.facebook.com/sundayworld1

"Don't miss tomorrow's Sunday World as we reveal the nanny and cleaner who moonlights as a city centre prostitute."

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homeo · 16/03/2013 23:25

"But women are considered fair game aren't they? Not fully human, especially the 'fallen' ones. "

Maybe some think sex workers aren't human and need to be named and shamed.

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homeo · 16/03/2013 23:26

[email protected]

That's their email if anyone wants to complain

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Trekkie · 16/03/2013 23:30

No of course they don't.
Good grief.

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homeo · 16/03/2013 23:33

I was expecting you all to have a different response. This is a feminist board isn't it?

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OldLadyKnowsNothing · 16/03/2013 23:38

Why would feminists deride sex workers?

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Trekkie · 16/03/2013 23:39

Why were you expecting a different response?

Feminists have a range of views about prostitution and other types of work in the sex industry, in the sense of whether it is damaging to society / women as a group etc.

Whatever their view though, feminists would never condemn the women (and others) working at the sharp end of this industry, seeking instead to condemn the societal structures, laws, pimps and so on who allow it all to happen.

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homeo · 16/03/2013 23:40
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Maryz · 16/03/2013 23:45

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AbigailAdams · 16/03/2013 23:47

What does that last link have to do with us or the rest of this thread? I don't even understand what it is about in fact.

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homeo · 16/03/2013 23:49

The last link I posted is about sex workers revealing some of the abuse they have to put up with, not from clients but from those who oppose sex work.

For example one of them had dog shit put through her letterbox.

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Darkesteyes · 16/03/2013 23:51

Any other MNers getting a sense of deja vu here or is it just me.

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AbigailAdams · 16/03/2013 23:52

Again, what has that got to do with us or your original point of the thread?

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Trekkie · 16/03/2013 23:52

The "anti sex work" people who are being talked about on your second link, for attacking sex workers, are pretty likely to be coming from a religious, right wing type perspective, rather than a feminist perspective.

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AbigailAdams · 16/03/2013 23:53

Not it's not just you Darkesteyes.

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AnnieLobeseder · 16/03/2013 23:54

Feminists may oppose sex work, but they don't oppose sex workers as women, as human beings. The industry is appalling, but the women in it are rarely there out of free and open choice. So no, they do not deserve anything except understanding and support.

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OldLadyKnowsNothing · 16/03/2013 23:54

Yeah, me too, but I don't understand why this discussion has been closed down (at least twice) before. Sex workers do recieve abuse for doing what they do, why is it not up for discussion?

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homeo · 16/03/2013 23:54
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Trekkie · 16/03/2013 23:54

OK x posted now I am confused.

There was a website set up in the US "naming and shaming" sex workers, including their addresses and phone numbers. That is the sort of thing you are talking about, I think.

However it was not set up by feminists, it was set up by men. Horrible men who wanted to hurt women.

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