It isn’t easy to handle the prostitution issue:
moral-ism, hypocrisy and clashing systems
of ethics continue to make any form of dialogue
difficult, even today. The same arguments are still
used in every discussion, despite the great social
evolution of the last century. Both the blame
on the phenomenon, as well as the label
of the victims, remain unchanged.
With so much hypocrisy, institutions often decide
to fight the immoral behavior they see
in prostitution, and not the real criminals.
The weakness of the tools adopted by
governments to solve the problem is evident:
a high number of arrested prostitutes,
but how many clients and exploiters are either
arrested or expelled?
Only by recognizing prostitution as a self
determined choice of those who practice
it and those who use it, respecting it as it is without
useless prohibition attempts, we can make
the difference in terms of rights, safety and public
health. Only in this way it is possible to fight
against the slavery of women, with the consequent
break up and trial of the criminal network
exploiting it, instead of the current situation where
those who practice the profession at their own risk
are most exposed to legal repression, rather than
those who gain from it sitting at home.
