Legalized prostiution in Germany results in a situation where it likely would be good if the majority of brothels don’t exist because they are abusive to the women in them.
Isn’t there some “Uber for escorts” app in Germany that mostly solves that problem?
Why should an uber like app solve the problem? When women get drugged and get beaten if the don’t engage in prostitution having an App to connect them to buyers doesn’t solve much.
That doesn’t change the fact that the majority of woman who work as a prostitute do so, because they are forced.
The availability of an app that allows a woman to sell her body simply doesn’t encourage much normal woman to sell themselves as a prostitute.
In surveys, most women say that they would get out of prostitution immediately if they could.
In addition to reading about the subject I also talked to someone who years ago wanted to start a brothel in Germany for some time and who did background research into how the industry operates. That conversation shifted my own views on the subject because he’s not simply a feminist with a political agenda where I don’t trust the person to accurately represent reality but his views are the product of contact with the ground reality.
would get out of prostitution immediately if they could
I wonder what you would find if you surveyed ordinary workers and asked how many would stop working immediately if they could?
“Would get out immediately if they could” might mean that they’re being kept prisoner at gunpoint. Or that they are addicted to a drug that they can only get from the pimp who’s insisting that they keep working as prostitutes. Or that they don’t have any other way to earn as much money as they need (or want). Or just that like many other people they don’t like their job much.
I suspect there’s quite a lot of the third of those; in such cases I suggest that the underlying problem is poverty more than it’s prostitution, and maybe legalizing and destigmatizing prostitution makes those people’s lives better by giving them one more viable way to earn a living. (Only maybe: it could be, e.g., that prostitution is in almost all cases a much worse way to earn a living than it seems from outside, in which case making it an easier option could be doing them a big disservice.)
Isn’t there some “Uber for escorts” app in Germany that mostly solves that problem?
Why should an uber like app solve the problem? When women get drugged and get beaten if the don’t engage in prostitution having an App to connect them to buyers doesn’t solve much.
By eliminating the necessity of the brothels as an intermediary/broker for sex
That doesn’t change the fact that the majority of woman who work as a prostitute do so, because they are forced. The availability of an app that allows a woman to sell her body simply doesn’t encourage much normal woman to sell themselves as a prostitute.
Source?
The article I linked to contains the passage:
In addition to reading about the subject I also talked to someone who years ago wanted to start a brothel in Germany for some time and who did background research into how the industry operates. That conversation shifted my own views on the subject because he’s not simply a feminist with a political agenda where I don’t trust the person to accurately represent reality but his views are the product of contact with the ground reality.
I wonder what you would find if you surveyed ordinary workers and asked how many would stop working immediately if they could?
“Would get out immediately if they could” might mean that they’re being kept prisoner at gunpoint. Or that they are addicted to a drug that they can only get from the pimp who’s insisting that they keep working as prostitutes. Or that they don’t have any other way to earn as much money as they need (or want). Or just that like many other people they don’t like their job much.
I suspect there’s quite a lot of the third of those; in such cases I suggest that the underlying problem is poverty more than it’s prostitution, and maybe legalizing and destigmatizing prostitution makes those people’s lives better by giving them one more viable way to earn a living. (Only maybe: it could be, e.g., that prostitution is in almost all cases a much worse way to earn a living than it seems from outside, in which case making it an easier option could be doing them a big disservice.)