Progressives’ next goal: normalizing sexploitation with legal ‘sex work’
NY Post
Having harmed New York’s public safety and quality of life over the past half-decade with marijuana and criminal-justice “reforms,” Albany progressives are pushing another one: the decriminalization of “sex work.”
Brooklyn Sen. Julia Salazar’s bill would decriminalize adult (18 and up) prostitution, deleting the buying and selling of sex from the state’s misdemeanor catalog.
The advocacy groups she supports argue that decriminalization “is the best way to reduce coercion in the sex trade, while … enabling sex workers to employ harm reduction,” such as insisting that a sex buyer wear a condom. Decriminalization “enables sex workers to seek medical or legal help.”
But nothing in current law stops a woman (or man) who is raped or robbed by a sex-buying “client” from filing a police report or seeking hospital treatment. Pro-bono firms offer “legal help” to “sex workers” on all manner of issues.
There is evidence that decriminalization will make things worse.
Consider this news from Rhode Island’s experience of decriminalizing prostitution between 2003 and 2009: Reported rapes statewide went down.
