Resource Response to Amnesty’s Prostitution Policy
Resource Response to Amnesty’s Prostitution Policy
“Under a veneer of concern for the human rights of the marginalised human beings who make up the vast majority of those in prostitution, Amnesty’s policy document is riddled with logical inconsistencies, omissions of key information and flawed reasoning.
For example, the policy calls for the tackling of gender inequality and the objectification of women but is oblivious to the fact that prostitution and related practices, like lap dancing and pornography, are key mechanisms by which gender inequality is maintained and through which women are objectified.
Absent also is any mention of how that objectification impacts on women and girls. As Elizabeth Hungerford wrote recently, “No one can meaningfully consent to sex when their human value has been reduced to their body’s capacity to sexually gratify someone else. Humans aren’t objects or tools, they are sentient beings with feelings and complex emotional needs. Treating sex like a transaction is inherently dehumanizing.”
Amnesty’s policy insists that “sex work” and trafficking should not be conflated, but it redefines the internationally agreed definition of trafficking to omit its most relevant purpose: the exploitation of the prostitution of others. Exploiting the prostitution of another human being is the essence of pimping. And most pimping also satisfies the other elements of trafficking.”
Read more: https://nordicmodelnow.org/2016/05/28/response-to-amnestys-prostitution-policy/
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Dec 14 2024, 12:48 AM #1This is our response to Amnesty publishing its ‘Sex Work policy’ in early 2016. It’s just as relevant today.
“Under a veneer of concern for the human rights of the marginalised human beings who make up the vast majority of those in prostitution, Amnesty’s policy document is riddled with logical inconsistencies, omissions of key information and flawed reasoning.
For example, the policy calls for the tackling of gender inequality and the objectification of women but is oblivious to the fact that prostitution and related practices, like lap dancing and pornography, are key mechanisms by which gender inequality is maintained and through which women are objectified.
Absent also is any mention of how that objectification impacts on women and girls. As Elizabeth Hungerford wrote recently, “No one can meaningfully consent to sex when their human value has been reduced to their body’s capacity to sexually gratify someone else. Humans aren’t objects or tools, they are sentient beings with feelings and complex emotional needs. Treating sex like a transaction is inherently dehumanizing.”
Amnesty’s policy insists that “sex work” and trafficking should not be conflated, but it redefines the internationally agreed definition of trafficking to omit its most relevant purpose: the exploitation of the prostitution of others. Exploiting the prostitution of another human being is the essence of pimping. And most pimping also satisfies the other elements of trafficking.”
Read more: https://nordicmodelnow.org/2016/05/28/response-to-amnestys-prostitution-policy/
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