“Bringing Sex Work into the Common Law”. This is the project of the independent think tank Génération Libre, which produced a report revealed by Publication June 2 – International Sex Workers Day (TDS) – which would give them the same rights as any employee.
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This hundred-page document therefore offers an alternative to the repressive French system of prostitution. The text returns to the harmful consequences of the prohibition of sex work on the basis of data collected in the United States, the Netherlands and Sweden.
The law that penalizes customers in the crosshairs
Therefore, Génération Libre supports a research of more social rights for TDS. The document then proposes offer workers the possibility to choose among several options to carry out their activity under an employment regime, a service contract or the establishment of a commercial company“, we can read. Because it is only since 2008 that TDS can declare itself micro-entrepreneurs. Consequentially, they will not have access to retirementtheir neighborhoods functioned before 2008 having not been taken into account, he reports Publication.
The report also recommendsrepeal the law on penalizing the customer, in force since April 2016. A law that would be “ ineffective ” according to the think thank, because in Sweden, where there is similar legislation, the number of TDS has not decreased, the primary objective. But above all the first interested parties, as well as the associations in defense of their rights, never cease to warn about the danger but also about the precariousness of the TDS that it causes.
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Another key measure proposed by the think tank: eliminate the crime of prosecutionwhich would be too vague: There is no distinction between a violent or coercive pimp and a friend who lends his apartment, a landlord who rents his apartment or a taxi driver“said a Publication Edward Assia, co-author of the report. Clearly, a report advocating for the decriminalization of prostitution, a legislative process which, according to the report, has already proven itself, especially in New Zealand, where sex workers are considered full-fledged workers.
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Source: Madmoizelle
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