One of the most devastating reports of all the bad news that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has provided refers to the arrival at the borders of the attacked country of characters of various nationalities, including Spain, who, in the midst of chaos and with the excuse of lending to help the refugees, They kidnapped women and girls to put them in networks of sexual exploitation. You have to be bad people. You have to have few scruples and a great sense of impunity. What will have become of those mothers and grandmothers who fled with their daughters and granddaughters by the hand, and sat in the van of the depraved who assured them that they were going to take them to a safe place. I ask myself these days, as I attend the discussion on prostitution, abolition or not. A political debate a thousand times open and many others closed, which, from what can be seen, this country does not have the courage to confront despite the fact that it is the third in the world with the most whorehouses. It is not good to talk about it in the law of the right to abortion, nor in that of sexual freedom. I include it as an amendment, I withdraw it, and that’s how the legislature will end. I wish they hadn’t even mentioned it, so that we don’t get the feeling that the most blatant practice of dehumanizing women is not important enough to give it a little interest. Another sticking point for the government coalition, another fight of girls to see who is more feminist, better not shake it and pacify the polls. I have read with interest the opinions of all political parties regarding the subject, always parked, of the use and abuse of the body of poor women to satisfy men who pay for it. All the spokespersons are women, and their explanations are summed up in “it’s complicated.” Indeed. For the easy things, the rest of us are already here, those of us who don’t get paid a salary and allowances for pressing the red button today and the green one tomorrow. It is indeed something as complex as deciding if the world we want to live in admits this type of slavery.
The worst thing about putting on the table a scourge whose purpose you do not plan to address is that current affairs are filled with romantic articles in defense of the “oldest profession in the world”, embodied in movies and books, or in relation to the failures of other more evolved societies that have attacked the problem standing up against pimps and clients. Writings that ask if by persecuting kidnappers and traffickers of human beings, and closing the infected places where they exploit their victims, we are going to achieve the undesired effect of harming them. What if we will not be exercising paternalistic control of women’s empowerment who voluntarily decide to sell their bodies. let’s finish It must not be easy to dissociate prostitution from violence and machismo, but the culture of postmodern individualism that afflicts us manages to make us believe that it is simply a way of making a living, another one of those identities that are chosen in freedom. I have an ideal method to cool any whim tending to consider prostitution an innocuous work activity. I imagine my girl who comes and she tells me that when she grows up she will sell her body for money to disgusting guys. And I don’t see myself accompanying her to sign up as a freelancer, nor asking her how her work has gone, nor being very proud of her when she tells me that she is one of the best in her profession.