Faqs
#1 Objectification is Harmful
Objectification is harmful – despite the objectification of women and girls being entrenched in our society. Being objectified and objectifying yourself is described as a form of ‘insidious trauma’ by psychologists. This is regardless of whether someone chooses to objectify themselves. Objectification doesn’t just hurt the individual, it also directly affects the attitudes of others. Brain scans show we view images of objectified women as .. objects, quite literally. The part of our brain that usually identifies objects or things is used, not the part that identifies human beings.
If mere objectification is harmful, how much more so is buying someone sexually?..
#2 The Sex Industries are Inherently Harmful
Sex or the expression of sexuality without desire is harmful. The human psyche is not designed for sex or sexual activity without desire. But sex that is bought is sex without genuine desire – it wouldn’t need to be bought otherwise would it, it would be a free, mutual exchange. This is one of the reasons women in the sex industries invariable dissociate, in order to survive. And this is actively encouraged through the use of stage names and a whole different persona. It is one of the reasons drug and alcohol addiction is so common – they help in dissociation. It is why ‘cognitive dissonance’ is so common (where you believe something which at the same time you know is not true).
#3 The Sex Industries are Unimaginably Abusive
The level of abuse in the sex industries is almost unimaginable.
In pornography the abuse is in plain site for even our children to see. Despite this, the abuse is studiously ignored or routinely touted as ’empowering and liberating’. Research from over a decade ago exposed that 90% of porn showed violence against women. This has only increased subsequently.
In terms of prostitution, mere common sense dictates that it simply is not possible to stay safe when you are alone with a man who has bought you sexually. How, exactly, can you stop him from doing whatever he wants? And if you do, he won’t use you again, he will complain at the brothel/strip club/escort agency, he will post poor reviews and you’ll be kicked out and your source of income slashed. You’re screwed either way.
The effects of all this are evident in the stats:
- 70% of women in prostituiton experience PTSD at the same level as a torture victim
- 2/3 of women in prostitution experience brain injury
- 95% of women in street prostitution have drug addiction
- 90% of women in prostitution want to get out immediately
- 18-40x higher mortality rate in prostitution
#4 The Sex Industries cannot be ‘Regulated’
Strip clubs perfectly demonstrate how the sex trade cannot be regulated and that the more legitimised it is, the more harm is done. In fact even this legitimised ‘High Street’ presence of the sex industry actually behaves as a very underground industry. The fact is, the more legitimised the sex trade is the more ‘underground’ and the more abusive it becomes. Just look at what porn has descended into. All legitimising the industry does is legitimise the pimps, brothel keepers, exploiters and traffickers who use and abuse those who sell sex. It also legitimises the very reason for the industry’s existence – mens’ demand.
#5 The Sex Industries are not Inevitable
It is often argued that prostitution and porn in all its guises will always exist because you can’t possibly stop men from using them, so better they are legitimised and ‘regulated’ than that they ‘underground’. But the fact is men can easily be deterred from buying sex. 80% of men are deterred mere by fines or points off their driving license!
#6 No One who Sells Sex should be Criminalised
No one who sells sex should be criminalised. But that doesn’t mean pimps and sex buyers should be decriminalised. It seems ironic that recent moves to wipe the criminal record of those who had sold sex were not backed by all the ‘sex worker’ groups that claim to represent those who sell sex and see ‘stigma’ is the biggest problem, a killer in fact for ‘sex workers’.
Myths
‘Censor’ … ‘Prude’ … ‘It’s Empowering’ .. Sound Familiar?
Ever noticed how the same arguments are put forward to justify all aspects of the Porn and Sex industry & Media objectification – or PMS
The arguments usually boil down to little more than:
a) Pornogander – lies, misinformation, absurdities, smokescreens and mantras that are so widespread they ‘become the truth’
b) Name Calling – designed to censor any alternative voice, the truth, discussion or even thinking things through
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