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gugu

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For thos interested in the social debate about the acceptability of prostitution, here is a selection of the best long videos (20 min or more) on Youtube.


I love the BBC radio Moral Maze exploring many controversial issues. Here are 4 very articulate commentators on prostitutions very weel moderated, as usual, by David Starky.

Nina Hartley. Bubbling. Intelligent, articulate, funny. I love her.

Prime Time : one ex and one active sex worker. Sex Professional of Canada has a very good spokes woman : Nikki Thomas

The battle of ideas (Royal College of Arts, London) That one is about human trafficking. Very very good. At least to hear Laura Augustin. She hosts a very good Internet site : The Naked Anthropologist at http://www.lauraagustin.com/

Even if you don’t like the abolitionists you may at least have it explained by a very nice Swedish anarchist.

A debate in New York having on the pro side Farley and MacKinnon. Very well moderated.

Peach. Like we say in French, “elle a de la gueule”. The first of tree.

QUand on a vu les videos qui précèdent, il y a de quoi s’interroger sur le niveau de l’intelligentia française et de leur capacité de mener des débats ordonnés.

Ardisson ( que j’ayyyyiiiiii) Mais c’est Marcella Iacoub du CNRS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZJma8iW3Gk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B71MRbFmPYc

Le récent débat en France avec le Louis de Funes du prohibitionnisme Guy Geoffroy (Michel Serre est là : une seule question qui tout à 36 :30 minutes qui dit tout après le brouhaha)

Please feel free to add to the list with just of few words about the videos.
 

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Melanie, a sex worker from New South Wales, Australia. She is articulate and explains better them just anybody what sex work is, what decriminalization of prostitution, the importance of pear group education and the need for politicians to hear the only true specialists on prostitution: the sex workers themselves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9UKvY6y2lk
 

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I'll make exception, just once, to the media suggested in this thread, to present the shortest and most precise account of the prostitution debate. Three paragraphs.

This 5 minute lecture is pure joy in my mind.

By Maggie Mc Neill

http://www.cato-unbound.org/2013/12/30/maggie-mcneill/concluding-thoughts

By the way, the Cato Unbound December debate, of which this is the closing article, is pretty interesting with some contributions by Ronald Weitzer.
 

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Merci Gugu :)

Bravo à Émilie qui a une présence médiatique extrêmement importante ces temps ci et qui reste malgré tout calme, posée et ne montre pas de signe d'épuisement.
Espérons une année prolifique dans sa couverture médiatique qui permettra d'éviter la pénalisation des clients.
 

gugu

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En passant Marylie, quand Émilie parle du modèle nordique, elle a raison de souligner le passage du pseudo rapport d'évaluation qui indique que le gouvernement reconnaît qu'il a une augmentation de la violence auprès des tds. D'ailleurs, ils reconnaissent aussi aujourd'hui que cette violence est une étape nécessaire pour faire régresser la prostitution, aussi hallucinant et contradictoire que cela puisse paraître.

Ceci dit, il y a une démonstration bien plus patente de l'échec du modèle nordique qui repose fondamentalement sur l'idée que les tds sont des victimes à protéger du mal qui leur est fait et du mal qu'elles se font à elles-mêmes. Le même rapport nous indique qu'il y a eu une grande augmentation de l'appuie de la population à la politique de pénalisation des clients depuis sa mise en place en 1999. Ce que le rapport ne dit pas, c'est qu'aujourd'hui les deux tiers de la population sont également en faveur de la pénalisation des tds elles-mêmes!

Quand tu mets en place une politique qui vise précisément à convaincre la population que les tds sont des victimes et que la population est aux deux tiers favorable à leur criminalisation, je ne suis pas certain certain que tu as la légitimité pour aller bomber le torse dans les forums internationaux sur la réussite de ton modèle.
 

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The sex workers movement is growing at a rapid pace all over the world. The Daphne indoors project regrouping 9 European sex workers organizations has some very articulate spokes people. Meet them in these videos. You may also want to have a look at their website.

http://indoors-project.eu/
 

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In view of the debate going on the canadian approach to prostitution,meet the most articulate person on the subject, across the board, Brooke Magnanti, debating in Scotland, 2 years ago.

The debate starts at 3 min 50. The preceding piece is BBC standard, pretty good.

BTW Rhonda did not succeed in having her bill passed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA7Ej47DMfc
 

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That’s a very fun video. Especially when he talks about these men who beg him to diagnose them as sex addicts to have an excuse for cheating on their wives. It’s not unlike women like Tanja Rahm who blame her clients for her own life decisions. Now that we live in a free society, it seems no one wants to take responsibility for their actions. I did the test he talks about and, surprisingly, I don’t even score as a sex addict.
 

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This is well worth 2 and a half hours of listening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WndWGe7meQ



PEERS Victoria hosted a public event on Sept. 19, 2014, featuring eight panelists with diverse areas of expertise around sex work speaking on why they support the decriminalization of the Canadian sex industry as the best option for improving safety and enhancing the human and civil rights of sex workers. This is the video recording of that two-hour event.
The panelists who participated were:
• Catherine Healy, national co-ordinator of the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective and a former sex worker. She has sat on a wide range of expert committees and is frequently sought by national and international groups for advice on issues affecting sex workers.
• Lisa Ordell, 49-year-old Metis mother of two young women who holds an honours BA with Distinction in sociology and is currently applying to begin an Interdisciplinary PhD. A registered massage therapist since 1990, she entered the sex work field in 2004 with an intention to facilitate a healing experience with her clients, and views sex work as a healthcare issue.
• Dr. Sarah Hunt, Kwagiulth writer, researcher and activist whose most recent publication on decolonial approaches to sex work can be found in the book Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy and Research on Sex Work in Canada.
• Natasha Potvin, member at large on the PEERS board who brings 15 years of experience working in the sex industry. She is a long-time activist in the area of human rights and sex work, and has spent much of her recent years focusing on HIV prevention, harm reduction and prostitution law reform.
• Chris Atchison, research associate with UVic Department of Sociology. He has researched people who purchase sexual services (clients) since 1995. During this time he has conducted the two largest and most comprehensive studies of clients ever completed, both in Canada and internationally.
• Gillian Calder, associate professor of law at UVic where she teaches family law and constitutional law. Her research areas include law's regulation of the family, equality theories, critical legal pedagogy and performativity in law. Her most recent work includes co-editing the 2014 UBC Press Polygamy's Rights and Wrongs: Perspectives on Harm, Family and Law.
• Staff Sergeant Todd Wellman, of the Victoria Police Department. Todd has worked in policing for 27 years, including 5 years in charge of the Special Victims Unit, when he worked closely with PEERS and those in the sex industry. Todd helped form the department’s sex work liaison unit.
• Randall Garrison, Member of Parliament for Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca. Previously an instructor in criminal justice and political science at Camosun College, and a long-time social justice and environmental activist. Randall is the public safety critic for the Official Opposition as well as the LGBT spokesperson.
 
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Game over!

So, in conclusion, all these debates supposed to bring safer working conditions led to C-36? Judging from the results, it would be fair to say that some of the talking heads who support the decriminalization agenda should have kept their mouths shut. Like the old adage goes: don't fix it if it ain't broke.
 

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A pretty nice coming out sex worker's video, full of poetry. The queer at 5:45 is one of my picks among others.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD1i9sfX3KI

NPM, if some sex workers went to the tribunals, it's because they thought that it's broke. And the judges said it's broke. Please don't blame some sex workers for C-36. It's totally unfair. Or at least blame also the judges. It's not a joke that 210, 212 and 213 made sex work unnecessarily dangerous. Their purpose was to improve the security of sex worker. "...should have kept their mouth shut" is an insult.
 
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