Pro “sex work” orgs (who campaign for full decriminalization of the sex industry) are starting to shut down in British Columbia. Hopefully services to sexually exploited individuals can now be delivered with harm elimination as the focus/goal.

Lawmakers and the general public understand and acknowledge how toxic these commercial entities are to the community, but they don’t apply the same understanding or concern when it comes to the people (women) being exploited within them.

If a business is deemed harmful to have near residential areas, schools, childcare facilities, recreation centres, supportive housing projects, places of public assembly, etc. is it a “business” that belongs in our communities at all?. Brothels & strip clubs are anti-community.

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“This is the truth that the public and our elected officials must face: The sex trade […] is violence, and the buyers are not harmless “johns” ‒ they are predators who rely on the silence of society and the shame of survivors to keep operating freely.”.

“Window prostitution brothels in the Netherlands are disappearing, and there are now just around 1,000 red light work spaces in Dutch towns and cities, compared with 1,500 some 15 years ago.”.

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“These crimes don’t happen in the shadows — they happen in plain sight. These storefronts don’t survive in secrecy — they survive because we look away. We must refuse to accept human trafficking as part of the urban backdrop.”.

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“women have become the locus of wealth extraction as the global capitalists have turned to mining women and girls’ bodies for the primitive accumulation of capital through the industrialisation of prostitution, porn, egg harvesting and surrogacy.”.

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“…psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert says the [competitive sex] challenges can lead to feelings of emptiness. “In the moment, [the creators] might feel like they’re really special. But after, I think, they probably feel worthless.””.

“…most pro-legalization discourse originates in Western institutions: academia, NGOs and so-called human rights organizations. Most supporters of sex work legalization are male.”.

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“even in one of the most public & grotesque cases of sexual exploitation, our nation still lacks the political & moral courage to confront the root of the problem: the buyers. The men w/ power, prestige, & money who, by choice, fuel a marketplace of abuse”.