Comments on: Laws to control prostitution ineffective and irrational http://www.lauraagustin.com/the-irrationality-of-legal-regimes-to-control-prostitution Dr Laura Agustín on Migration, Trafficking and Sex Mon, 21 May 2012 11:21:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Kris http://www.lauraagustin.com/the-irrationality-of-legal-regimes-to-control-prostitution#comment-775 Kris Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:31:59 +0000 http://www.lauraagustin.com/?p=3496#comment-775 I read the article. My response: Aren't all laws based on values which change over time? And basically, many laws don't help if you look at how many of the perpetrators are caught in the first place. How many rapists and thieves actually go to jail? I think it is very important indeed that the sex industry needs some regulations. From what I know in countries where prostitution is legal, there are no rules set as to what kind of behaviour is acceptable or unacceptable. Some prostitutes complain that clients just grope without warning, put their fingers in orifices, scoff at the women etc.... (read for instance the book "Fucking Berlin" by Sonia Rossi who makes similar complaints). Perhaps some guiding rules for prostitutes and clients are needed. I think this is an interesting case because many sex work activists want prostitution to be treated just like other work. But if other work is like prostitution, perhaps the other workers should also get the right to be free of groping hands and fingers in orifices without warning. I believe you shouldn't look at the question if something can be policed or not. I think it is more about setting rules about how people should more or less behave, and that victims could get some justice. I read the article. My response:
Aren’t all laws based on values which change over time? And basically, many laws don’t help if you look at how many of the perpetrators are caught in the first place. How many rapists and thieves actually go to jail?

I think it is very important indeed that the sex industry needs some regulations. From what I know in countries where prostitution is legal, there are no rules set as to what kind of behaviour is acceptable or unacceptable. Some prostitutes complain that clients just grope without warning, put their fingers in orifices, scoff at the women etc…. (read for instance the book “Fucking Berlin” by Sonia Rossi who makes similar complaints). Perhaps some guiding rules for prostitutes and clients are needed.

I think this is an interesting case because many sex work activists want prostitution to be treated just like other work. But if other work is like prostitution, perhaps the other workers should also get the right to be free of groping hands and fingers in orifices without warning.

I believe you shouldn’t look at the question if something can be policed or not. I think it is more about setting rules about how people should more or less behave, and that victims could get some justice.

]]> By: mel curtiss http://www.lauraagustin.com/the-irrationality-of-legal-regimes-to-control-prostitution#comment-772 mel curtiss Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:08:55 +0000 http://www.lauraagustin.com/?p=3496#comment-772 Hi Laura, I'd like to read your article: 'Sex and the Limits of Enlightenment: The Irrationality of Legal Regimes to Control Prostitution', if you would be so kind as to forward a copy to my email address. Thank you, again, for your generosity in making your academic works available to your readers. Best Regards Mel Curtiss Hi Laura,

I’d like to read your article: ‘Sex and the Limits of Enlightenment: The Irrationality of Legal Regimes to Control Prostitution’, if you would be so kind as to forward a copy to my email address. Thank you, again, for your generosity in making your academic works available to your readers.

Best Regards

Mel Curtiss

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