Violence Against Sex Workers

[Internationalist Bastard]

We find ourselves about a week away from December 17th, a day we designate as the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. For reasons I'm sure you can deduce, this is a subject I care about deeply. While I engage in the strictly legal and relatively safe world of American pornography, many of my sisters and brothers on the streets suffer from being in an incredibly unsafe career. Some studies even suggest it is the deadliest profession in the world.
Here to provide a full, scholarly look at the issue is a Review on the National Library of Medicine; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3987574/
This was published in 2014 so I will not be surprised if the numbers are a bit off
I will also admit that the article is, as one could expect from a scholarly article, rather fact heavy, so for a lighter read;
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/katherine-koster/16-facts-about-sexual-ass_b_8711720.html
What it comes down to is that prostitutes the world over are threatened constantly, and frankly, nothing seems to help. With the deep stigma many places have against the profession, including cases of rape and sexual assault being treated as less significant in many cases, and even assault by police, it seems like a terrifying world to be a sex worker.
So what do we do about this? We clearly need to handle the situation, but there seems to be no real movement to do so. After reading through the statistics and living through personal experience, I have to argue that the best solution is two fold. The first is to decriminalize and encourage sex workers to operate in safe environments with other workers. The second requires a larger effort to remove the stigma of working in this field. So long as we are seen as lesser for our choices, we will be treated more poorly. I sadly don't have a grand idea to move about social reform however.
What do you think NSG? What should be done about this violence?

[Western Vale Confederacy]

Y'know, you'd think that being the world's oldest profession would eventually cause people to be perfectly fine with it after a goddamn while, but nope.

José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia was bloody right.

[Internationalist Bastard]

Y'know, you'd think that being the world's oldest profession would eventually cause people to be perfectly fine with it after a goddamn while, but nope.

José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia was bloody right.

I'm afraid I'm not familiar

[Bombadil]

Why do you assume American pornography is safe?

[Western Vale Confederacy]

Y'know, you'd think that being the world's oldest profession would eventually cause people to be perfectly fine with it after a goddamn while, but nope.

José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia was bloody right.

I'm afraid I'm not familiar

The man caught his daughter prostituting herself outside his palace.

His reaction? Declaring prostitution to be an honourable profession.

[Internationalist Bastard]

Why do you assume American pornography is safe?

Note I said safer.
And I didn't assume.

[Internationalist Bastard]

I'm afraid I'm not familiar

The man caught his daughter prostituting herself outside his palace.

His reaction? Declaring prostitution to be an honourable profession.

That's a good man right there

[NERVUN]

I wonder if, and when, we get sex bots if that would help or hurt?

[Galloism]

I wonder if, and when, we get sex bots if that would help or hurt?

Hard to say. Ready access to pornography is correlated with lower sexual violence overall, but I would hesitate to guess how sexbots would affect it.

If sexbots are actually good at it, and reasonably priced, the immediate effect will be economic in nature - bots will displace the prostitutes and put them out of work.

[Thermodolia]

Y'know, you'd think that being the world's oldest profession would eventually cause people to be perfectly fine with it after a goddamn while, but nope.

José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia was bloody right.

Blame religion

[Saiwania]

Porn or adult services attract the unsavory elements of society. So you can't expect only well behaved people to come, you won't know if they're no good until after they cross one or more lines of conduct. If someone is abusive, a brothel, website, whatever, can simply ban or blacklist them.

Spiritually, it displeases God in that it is considered either fornication or adultery. You can't just pretend that something immoral is moral. People will do as they want if its within their conscience, but this isn't without consequence.

[New haven america]

The man caught his daughter prostituting herself outside his palace.

His reaction? Declaring prostitution to be an honourable profession.

That's a good man right there

I mean, he was also a dictator...

[Internationalist Bastard]

That's a good man right there

I mean, he was also a dictator...

A good man

[Thermodolia]

That's a good man right there

I mean, he was also a dictator...

Who surprisingly left the nation richer than when he took over

[Internationalist Bastard]

Porn or adult services attract the unsavory elements of society. So you can't expect only well behaved people to come, you won't know if they're no good until after they cross one or more lines of conduct. If someone is abusive, a brothel, website, whatever, can simply ban or blacklist them.

Spiritually, it displeases God in that it is considered either fornication or adultery. You can't just pretend that something immoral is moral. People will do as they want if its within their conscience, but this isn't without consequence.

Are unsavory people attracted to using sex workers because they are sex workers or because unsavory people are more likely to partake in something seen as illegal and taboo?

[Internationalist Bastard]

I mean, he was also a dictator...

Who surprisingly left the nation richer than when he took over

Of course he did
"Sir we are 500,000 dollars in debt."
"Get my good shoes and send out the word it's 100 an hour"

[New haven america]

Porn or adult services attract the unsavory elements of society. So you can't expect only well behaved people to come, you won't know if they're no good until after they cross one or more lines of conduct. If someone is abusive, a brothel, website, whatever, can simply ban or blacklist them.

Spiritually, it displeases God in that it is considered either fornication or adultery. You can't just pretend that something immoral is moral. People will do as they want if its within their conscience, but this isn't without consequence.

Are unsavory people attracted to using sex workers because they are sex workers or because unsavory people are more likely to partake in something seen as illegal and taboo?

It's almost as if making one of humanity's most basic instincts/behaviors (Love, sex, reproduction, etc...) a taboo was a bad idea or something.

[Saiwania]

Are unsavory people attracted to using sex workers because they are sex workers or because unsavory people are more likely to partake in something seen as illegal and taboo?

The latter. People in general want to sin for one or more nights because the temptation is there or they think it'll be fun and desirable. I'm sure tons of otherwise normal people go, but some certain percentage that slip in will be the riff raff.

[Ifreann]

George Soros needs to hurry up and use his liberal puppets to legalise sex work.

[Galloism]

Are unsavory people attracted to using sex workers because they are sex workers or because unsavory people are more likely to partake in something seen as illegal and taboo?

It's almost as if making one of humanity's most basic instincts/behaviors (Love, sex, reproduction, etc...) was a bad idea or something.

New Haven America in real life:

[New haven america]

George Soros needs to hurry up and use his liberal puppets to legalise sex work.

Now now, we mustn't rush the man, he has an entire world to run and transform into a liberal paradise.

[Internationalist Bastard]

Are unsavory people attracted to using sex workers because they are sex workers or because unsavory people are more likely to partake in something seen as illegal and taboo?

The latter. People in general want to sin for one or more nights because the temptation is there or they think it'll be fun and desirable. I'm sure tons of otherwise normal people go, but some certain percentage that slip in will be the riff raff.

So would it not be better to make it safe, legal, and normal to visit a prostitute and let people with personal moral objections leave it at that?

[Saiwania]

So would it not be better to make it safe, legal, and normal to visit a prostitute and let people with personal moral objections leave it at that?

I'd consent to this, but there will still be some downsides. I'm inclined to believe that its not possible to ensure the entire sex industry isn't without crime or corruption in a secular sense. This industry has inherent risks and is shady to some extent.

[Thermodolia]

George Soros needs to hurry up and use his liberal puppets to legalise sex work.

Now now, we mustn't rush the man, he has an entire world to run and transform into a liberal paradise.

I still haven’t gotten my shillbucks yet. God his HR department sucks

[Internationalist Bastard]

So would it not be better to make it safe, legal, and normal to visit a prostitute and let people with personal moral objections leave it at that?

I'd consent to this, but there will still be some downsides. I'm inclined to believe that its not possible to ensure the entire sex industry isn't without crime or corruption in a secular sense. This industry has inherent risks and is shady to some extent.

Yes we would need to work very hard on cracking down on sex trafficking, with possible ways to ensure the worker is consenting at all times.