Comments on: Mayor Bloomberg, DSK, taxi drivers: Which women are sex workers? trafficking victims? http://www.lauraagustin.com/mayor-bloomberg-dsk-taxi-drivers-which-women-are-sex-workers-trafficking-victims Dr Laura Agustín on Migration, Trafficking and the Rescue Industry Tue, 14 May 2013 11:37:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: The Widening Gyre « The Honest Courtesan http://www.lauraagustin.com/mayor-bloomberg-dsk-taxi-drivers-which-women-are-sex-workers-trafficking-victims#comment-9308 The Widening Gyre « The Honest Courtesan Fri, 06 Jul 2012 10:02:25 +0000 http://www.lauraagustin.com/?p=16391#comment-9308 [...] winking, carrying condoms, not wearing underwear, etc.  As demonstrated by this illustration from Dr. Laura Agustín’s column on the law and others like it, reasonable people have understood the impossibility of identifying a [...] [...] winking, carrying condoms, not wearing underwear, etc.  As demonstrated by this illustration from Dr. Laura Agustín’s column on the law and others like it, reasonable people have understood the impossibility of identifying a [...]

]]> By: vortec http://www.lauraagustin.com/mayor-bloomberg-dsk-taxi-drivers-which-women-are-sex-workers-trafficking-victims#comment-9129 vortec Fri, 22 Jun 2012 01:33:59 +0000 http://www.lauraagustin.com/?p=16391#comment-9129 A prostitute I know refuses to wear thigh high boots because she thinks they look "too hookerish" even though she thinks they are attractive. A prostitute I know refuses to wear thigh high boots because she thinks they look “too hookerish” even though she thinks they are attractive.

]]> By: Laura Agustín http://www.lauraagustin.com/mayor-bloomberg-dsk-taxi-drivers-which-women-are-sex-workers-trafficking-victims#comment-9082 Laura Agustín Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:33:52 +0000 http://www.lauraagustin.com/?p=16391#comment-9082 Which is what the slutwalks were about, even though some of them were not friendly toward sex workers. Of course, the bartenders protesting at city hall were also distinguishing themselves from prostitutes, but, well, they are worried about getting home. Arrested because of carrying a lot of condoms I have heard of; for carrying one, never. Which is what the slutwalks were about, even though some of them were not friendly toward sex workers. Of course, the bartenders protesting at city hall were also distinguishing themselves from prostitutes, but, well, they are worried about getting home.

Arrested because of carrying a lot of condoms I have heard of; for carrying one, never.

]]> By: Maggie McNeill http://www.lauraagustin.com/mayor-bloomberg-dsk-taxi-drivers-which-women-are-sex-workers-trafficking-victims#comment-9066 Maggie McNeill Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:02:25 +0000 http://www.lauraagustin.com/?p=16391#comment-9066 This to me is one of the fundamental reasons self-described "feminists" need to support decriminalization even if they are both totally selfish and utterly horrified by sex work: Laws that require police to identify women as whores on the basis of appearance or public behavior invariably catch many non-sex-working women in the dragnet. One night while I was still a stripper in the late '90s (before I started escorting), one of my co-workers got a hysterical phone call from her mother (a doctor's office manager if I remember correctly), who had been arrested for prostitution after a disguised cop asked her, "Do you have a condom?" and she innocently answered "yes". This to me is one of the fundamental reasons self-described “feminists” need to support decriminalization even if they are both totally selfish and utterly horrified by sex work: Laws that require police to identify women as whores on the basis of appearance or public behavior invariably catch many non-sex-working women in the dragnet. One night while I was still a stripper in the late ’90s (before I started escorting), one of my co-workers got a hysterical phone call from her mother (a doctor’s office manager if I remember correctly), who had been arrested for prostitution after a disguised cop asked her, “Do you have a condom?” and she innocently answered “yes”.

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