The existence of prostitution is a democratic anomaly. Women will never be able to enjoy full citizenship as long as it is considered acceptable and passed on to younger generations that men can sexually access women’s bodies for money. That’s why, abolishing prostitution is a historical demand of the feminist movement since its inception in the fight for equality. Because prostitution is institutionalized sexual violence against impoverished women and it is insulting to talk about consent when it comes to survival.
The sexual exploitation of women and girls is one of the most lucrative criminal businesses in the world, Along with the arms and drug trade, it has become a global industry that feeds on trafficking and the constant increase in inequalities. Their marketing is pornography, that eroticizes the subjection and suffering of women and reduces them to sexual objects, being consumed at younger and younger ages.
It is estimated that there some 300,000 sexually exploited women in Spain, the main European consumer of prostitution and tourism of sexual exploitation and the third global destination for trafficking in women for the purpose of sexual exploitation. The territory of the State is plagued by what survivors of sexual exploitation, such as activist Amelia Tiganus, They qualify as authentic concentration camps for women from all over the world permanently available and forced to endure any form of sexual violence. In macro-brothels, flats, highways and roundabouts, women are induced to use drugs in order to continue exploiting them. The researcher Ingeborg Kraus has shown how, in addition to the physical consequences and a lower than average life expectancy, prostituted women suffer the same level of post-traumatic stress as soldiers on the front lines, only bearable by a permanent dissociation from his ego.
before prostitution the traditional conservative position stigmatizes women and hypocritically forbids them while tolerating her, maintaining male privilege. The neoliberal and postmodern position wants to regulate it, converting the exploiters, pimps and whoremongers into businessmen and clients, with the fiction of “sex work”.
The feminist movement, on the other hand, proposes to protect women, with resources that repair the damage suffered as victims of sexual violence, prosecute and dismantle pimping and deactivate demand with administrative, educational and criminal measures. It is a matter of state: alika kina She denounced her pimp for exploitation and the Argentine State for having failed to protect her as a citizen and as a victim. And he won the trial.
The State Platform of Women’s Organizations for the Abolition of Prostitution (OOMM-PAP) already has a proposal: the Organic Law Abolitionist of the Prostitutional System (LOASP).To demand that this proposal becomes law, more than 7,000 people from all over the territory demonstrated in Madrid on May 28.
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