Calls for law change to allow migrants to work in New Zealand sex industry
There are calls for a law change to allow migrants to work in the sex industry to reduce the risk of them being exploited and abused.
It comes on the 20th anniversary of the Prostitution Reform Act decriminalising sex work.
But advocates say there’s still more work needed to end the stigma around the industry.
Ummmmmmm.
I’m not sure allowing migrant workers to be legally sex trafficked is much of a win for you-go-girl feminism. NZ is already a despicable exploiter of migrant labour, that exploitation would be immediately transferred to sex work if migrant workers could move to NZ to work in the sex industry.
Of course sex workers must be safe in work environments and the testimony to date highlights a spitefulness on behalf of employers that can not and must not be tolerated, but let’s not pretend that the legal element of sex work means it is some great feminist symbol of empowerment. We made sex work legal for the same reasons we make gambling legal, because if you leave it in an illegal environment it only empowers organised crime and makes everyones existence far more dangerous.
I celebrate legal sex work as a triumph of good social policy, but there are not many parents who look at their children and hope they will have a great career as sex workers are there?
Opening up NZ for legal sex trafficking by migrant workers within an employment environment that is already ripe with migrant worker exploitation seems a faint goal to fight for.
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You’re are 100% correct and well said. But why can I see some idealistic idiot in this government thinking they are being all progressive buying into this anyway?
I totally agree, while it would be better if men did not think of women as sex objects the remote chance of that ever happening means that some protection is needed for vulnerable groups like migrants.
I find it remarkable that the locals put up with a political class whose only solution to anything is importing more cheap labour, to lower real wages even further.
Kristoff R. Spot on. The locals often don’t realise what’s going on here, they’re too busy working and living. It’s the dreadful self- interested politicians pushing this sort of exploitation who are disgraceful, for it doesn’t impact upon their own privileged lives, just upon everyone elses’s.
If this is Green policy, it’s no surprise. They’re wired for sex and gender scenarios, think they’re being trendy non- puritanical liberals, when they’re too damaged themselves to see what damage they cause to others, and too stupid and narcissistic to care. The shocking non-scientific genderID dogma now being implemented throughout the state school system, seems to have originated with the Greens. It’s not just confusing children, it’s blighting them, causing unwanted and unnecessary child/parental/teacher conflict, and is the most reprehensible social engineering I’ve been aware of in my long life. Mind you, with Labour’s secret agendas surfacing, it’s clear that there’s much that we mightn’t be aware of, and good reason not to trust them again IMO. National are no better, twiddling their thumbs while bad things are happening and expecting the punters to think that’s ok. It isn’t.
100% RB
Listen to Denise Ritchie from Stop Demand on the Platform. An outstanding woman and advocate for women and children in the sex trade. She says there is no evidence that legalising prostitution has made things any better for the women at all. She talks about me paying for sex so they can do things to women they have seen on porn, e.g pulling their hair and biting them. One commenter mentioned 5 prostitutes have been murdered in Chch since the law changed. No other industry would tolerate such an appalling safety record.
But yeah, sex wok is liberating, pole dancing “trans women are women” Green party candidate Stephanie Rogers would be bound to agree with Chole, who won’t be found doing sex work herself.j
These people disgust me
Would it make a difference? There are hundreds of asian prossies illegally operating in New Zealand. They are generally working, illegally, without a contract, for someone who effectively owns them. And yet the police do nothing to prosecute those running illegal brothels.
Now that’s consistent with general police policy on refusing to support domestic workers and honest businesses against illegal employers of foreigners, but probably police officers in general find it useful to have prostitutes working illegally that they can stand over for money and sexual services.
I would assume that legalizing bringing in women to work as prostitutes would simply increase the supply and uh, quality somewhat.
Yes, what it would do is increase the supply and turn downtown into a sex tourism destination like Soho, Kings Cross, Bangkok.
Okay I’m all for hot chicks coming to New Zealand and having sex, either for free, or being paid for it.
As a bloke, I have NEVER had free sex, I have always had to pay for it, usually dinner, movies, overseas trips, jewellery… It’s never been free
Terry. I’m not surprised at that. You should have gone to school more, played sports, read books etc but it’s never too late.
Here we go again.. Rainton Hastie isn’t on the list of “Advocates” is he? This represents nothing more than an attempt to push local sex workers out… Oh yay,,, How many “Bangkok Go Go bars” you think they can fit into the downtown block? If they get this self serving rule change, then they will have simply brought a whole new level of poverty to those who are forced to do this work here… These “calls” amount to expressions of utter callousness, and greed..
Vomit inducing!!! Utterly horrific.
How effing amoral are these people? Its another great policy up there with the child mutilating puberty blockers.
Still I guess, the people who think it is ok for young males to bash old ladies and get away with it would come up with yet another policy that abuses women and vulnerable ones at that. To say nothing of importing the worst kind of organised crime.
We’re of the same mind Martyn – I heard that on the News last night and thought I’d misheard it.
Un-be-fucking-lievable!
NZ can hardly cope with the fact of sexual relationships leading to pleasure and children being an essential part of life in general, no-one at present escapes the reality and its outcomes. In future we will have special units – people chosen for the role, surrogates, eggs, advertised (now) and others take pills instead. Oh dear it isn’t naice.
Sex education talks at school when parent evenings were held to discuss the subject and know the curricula had parents sitting in quiet isolation, frigid and sterile conversation like a bunch of awkward teenagers. So funny, and so sad that there wasn’t an acceptable level of polite adult discourse about intercourse.
Now watching animals carry out their natural life cycle cannot be countenanced.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/492866/drama-and-tension-in-dolphin-mating-documentary-scene-upset-child-viewers
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