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Is Feminism Failing Sex Workers? | Spokeswoman for the English Collective of Prostitutes, Adams campaigns for the decriminalisation of sex work and for sex workers' safety. Does money make good
Is Feminism Failing Sex Workers?


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| Spokeswoman for the English Collective of Prostitutes, Adams campaigns for the decriminalisation of sex work and for sex workers' safety. Does money make good women bad? If a woman in the street asks a man “Will you sleep with me?”, that is perfectly legal. But if he says yes and she tells him that it will cost him £20, that’s against the law. The laws against prostitution introduced in the 1950s were based on moral rules applied to sexual behaviour, especially the sexual behaviour of women. As such they also symbolise “double standards of sexual morality that result in stigmatising not just prostitutes, but many unconventional women, as sluts or whores.[1] But moral rules are not static. It took the courage and determination of LGBTQI people demanding their rights to win the decriminalisation of gay sex. Public opinion has already largely shifted on the issue of prostitution. As far back as 2008, 59% of people agreed that “prostitution was a perfectly reasonable choice that women should be free to make”.[2] There is a growing movement, spearheaded by sex workers, demanding the decriminalisation of sex work along the lines of the law introduced in New Zealand in 2003 with verifiable success.[3] But there is also entrenched opposition which comes from an “unlikely union of evangelical Christians and feminist campaigners”.[4] Both wings of this union aim for the abolition of prostitution and in the meantime press for increased criminalisation in the form of criminalising clients. Some religious groups come from an unconcealed moralistic standpoint. The Christian charity CARE, which sponsored a Northern Ireland Act to criminalise clients,[5] has a track record of homophobia, campaigned against gay marriage[6] and also opposes abortion.[7] "Is it really only sex work that is harmful to our humanity when under capitalism we are all compelled to sell ourselves, compelled to spend our waking lives in activities which we have not chosen or designed?" ___. Campaigns to criminalise clients by feminist groups claim a different motivation. They exploit the obvious double standard inherent in the prostitution laws and women’s often justifiable anger at men, and in the name of equality propose that clients be criminalised as a first step to abolishing prostitution. They maintain that prostitution ““is inherently a form of abuse… a form of violence against women”, that prostitution is uniquely degrading, that prostitution corrupts the society in which we live, sabotaging any possibility of equality between the sexes[8] and therefore that prostitution must be banned.[9] The claim that “prostitution is inherently violent because, by definition, it involves unwanted sex”[10] is insulting and demeaning to sex workers. It denies that we, like other people, can distinguish between the sex we consent to (for money or not) and that which violates our bodies and our will. Like other workers, sex workers’ consent is conditional: if we don’t get paid, it’s forced labour. An audience member at a recent event, with apparently no qualms about defining sex workers’ experience for them, gave his view: “The factory worker agrees to commodify their arm, a woman in prostitution is agreeing to commodify a very intimate part of her body. This causes dissociation of the self. I would describe factory work as consenting to slavery, sex work is consenting to rape. That is why we shouldn’t allow prostitution.”[11] But does this distinction really hold? Is it really only sex work that is harmful to our humanity when under capitalism we are all compelled to sell ourselves, compelled to spend our waking lives in activities which we have not chosen or designed. Selma James, in her gripping account of the ECP’s 12-day occupation of the Holy Cross Church in King’s Cross, London in 1982 to protest police illegality and racism, tackles the discomfort that some have with women selling sex: “It is true that sex workers sell a service that we all hope will be connected with intimacy and deep personal feeling. But the women’s movement has been at pains to spell out that sexuality is romanticized to hide how it is sometimes a tragedy or disappointment, or danger —or all of these—for women.” We cannot deny that the claim that prostitution is harmful to women is on the face of it backed up by statistics. Sex workers in London are 12 times more likely to be killed than other women.[12] But to propose outlawing prostitution on this basis is to impose a moralistic double standard. Agriculture is the UK's most dangerous industry, with 167 deaths over the past year[13] but no-one would sensibly propose that farming be banned. Two women a week are killed by their partner or former partner but we have yet to see a feminist hazard warning against marriage. There is nothing inherently dangerous about sex work. Women are alone with men in all kinds of situations. It is the laws which force sex workers to work in isolation that make us more vulnerable to violence and the lack of value that is put on our lives, exacerbated by our illegal status, that makes is so hard to get justice when we are attacked. Women Against Rape, a founding member of the Safety First Coalition which was initiated in the aftermath of the tragic murders of five young women in Ipswich, warns in addition that “ to target men who have not been accused of violence just because they purchase sexual services, diverts police time and resources away from tackling the appallingly low conviction rate for reported rape . [14] The ECP has never glamorised prostitution. Sex workers don’t need to love our jobs to demand that the police get off our backs. Surveys that claim to show that many sex workers would prefer another job[15] hide the fact that most workers offered more money for less work would want to change occupation. With zero hour contracts and endemic low pay the norm, it is no wonder that a recent UK survey found that 60% of workers hate their jobs.[16] And of course, many women point to the fact that sex work is often better paid (and therefore less exploitative) than most low-waged jobs women do.













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