@p0ly 489120 wrote:
I think it’d be more damaging to work your ass off in a shitty minimum wage job you hate than prostitution.
it only takes an economic depression, immigration (especially illegal immigration) and a fuckload of competition from overseas to turn the legalised sex industry into yet another exploitative minimum wage industry making use of vulnerable people, even in “better “European nations. Also (same with drugs) just because something is “legal” in Northern Europe” doesn’t mean its socially acceptable – people are still judged for their involvement in it, the only difference is that these countries judge after getting good evidence rather than just prejudice.
Worse still what was happening in the “good times” is that the government and taxpayers were subsidising a ruthlessly competititive as well as controversial private industry which doesn’t exactly sit well with notions of left wing / social democratic nations, nor can they suddenly become anti-immigration to defend something which is viewed as morally questionable
NL is now scaling back its tolerance of sex work amongst other things, so is DE. There are still plenty of pimps in all these countries in the Nordic countries (even if they aren’t preying on the native women they win because punters become price concious in economic depressions). A few years ago they were shamed by filmmakers exposing a trend for angry men to deliberately seek out trafficked foreign women they could control more, Lilya 4 Ever is a good example of this.
some forms of prostitution are legal in the UK as well and when they are non problematic to others and those involved blind eyes are turned, (similar to illegal raves which are now classed as interlinked by the cops due to the liberal morals of especially men in the scene) but it only takes a few incidents to bring things on top like what happened in my town from 2006. Incidentally to combat the wider problems (i.e to prevent further occurences as well as catch the killer which to be fair Suffolk Constabulary did a very good job of) Suffolk worked closely with cops in the Netherlands and other North European nations and came to the conclusion that a mixture of zero tolerance on the streets and moatly faith group funded help centres for the vulnerable women plus strong outreach work in schools by social services to prevent teenagers being groomed was the best idea (and it seems to have worked).
