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 (DIR) Post #B2tDFkRUGkKf95mFSC by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
       2026-02-01T19:13:47.186662Z
       
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       https://www.feministcurrent.com/2014/11/24/from-norway-to-new-zealand-pro-prostitution-research-is-its-own-worst-enemy/Permit me to show you a lie so grand its telling should cause alarm, but it doesn’t because the deception is in service of solidifying men’s ownership of women from the inside out and absolutely.I triple check facts before stating them. Some is preparation for audience feedback and some is doubt about how well I know what I know, perhaps because I’m a woman in a culture that disregards women. Operating on the niggling thought that my political opponents might make a valid argument against my preferred prostitution solution of criminalizing johns, I have dived into every policy paper on prostitution I have gotten whiff of for thirteen years.You may have encountered the results of my labors before when I wrote about Norwegian research that unintentionally affirmed the success of criminalizing johns.The Prostitution Reform Act of 2003 (PRA) decriminalized prostitution in New Zealand. At the same time, the Prostitution Law Review Committee was established to report within 3 to 5 years on the number of New Zealand’s newly dubbed “sex workers.” Here is that 2008 report.The summary concludes decriminalization did not increase street prostitution. The contents of Section 8 prove street prostitution went up and more than doubled between 2006 to 2007 in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city.The official press release was based on these comments from the summary [bolds mine],
       
 (DIR) Post #B2tDFmP4yfavECfLyi by BaronessLoveandLight@noauthority.social
       2026-02-01T20:55:51Z
       
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       @HebrideanHecate completely stepping away from the brutal reality that proposition exists, and the horror of its being legitimised culturally.  Isn't buying someone slavery and a bad thing? Even if it is for a limited period of time?