The Truth About Cops, Prostitutes - Police Prostitution and Politics

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The Truth About Cops, Prostitutes,
Sex Trafficking and
Child Sexual Exploitation;
How the dangerous, extraordinarily misguided efforts and absurd arguments used
to keep prostitution illegal and the efforts of abolitionists to ‘eliminate’ prostitution
harm those whom the anti- traffickers claim they want to protect...
and harm everyone else as well
Unintended consequences
including the rape of alleged sex trafficking
Unsustainable
victims by law enforcement agents
expense for dubious benefits based on
‘guestimated’ statistics which cannot be verified
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“The  Truth  About  Cops,  Prostitutes,  Sex  Trafficking  and  
Child  Sexual  Exploitation-­‐‑  
How  the  Dangerous,  Extraordinarily  Misguided  Efforts  to  
‘Eliminate’  Prostitution  Harms  Those  Whom  the  
Anti-­‐‑  Traffickers  Claim  They  Want  to  Protect  ”
NOTE:  Sex  workers  are  not  just  female...  many  males  and  transgendered  persons    of  all  ages  also  
work  in  this  profession  and  are  also  victims  of  rape,  abuse,  arrest  and  incarceration.  However,  
because    adult  and  juvenile  female  sex  workers  are  the  primary  focus  of  legislative  aEempts  to  
abolish  prostitution,    as  well  as    being  the  main  ‘concern’  of  religious  conservatives  and  radical  
feminists,    this  document  addresses  the  issues  that  apply  primarily  to  females.  
We  care  very  much  about  all  persons  who  engage  in  commercial  sex,  wherever  they  work  and  for  
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“there are 300,000 children trafficked into prostitution each year” page 47
Introduction page 8
Where did that claim come from? page 48
Addressing important questions page 11
WHAT STUDIES? 2001 University of PA study on JUVENILES page 49
Facts to Consider page 12
"That is statistically impossible” average age of entry into prostitution page 50

Why do prostitution abolitionists make that claim in the first place? page 51
Part I-The Numbers Game Where are the victims? page 13
What are the stats from the FBI arrest records? page 52
Numbers and Statistics can be confusing page 14
Numbers of female prostitution arrests from 1981 to 2010 page 53
Law Enforcement training guidelines on victims page 15
Spreadsheet: 1981- 2011 FBI criminal Stats Prostitution arrests page 54
Where do the human trafficking stats come from? page 16
Bubble graph 1981- 2010 arrests for prostitution- female page 55
The numbers are a guesstimate, not scientific data page 17
Numbers of female arrests disorderly conduct from 1981 to 2010 page 56
The truth is that nobody knows what the real number is page 18
FBI Local Cops- Operation Cross Country rescues [arrests] teens page 57
Porn star charged with human trafficking of Canadian boyfriend page 19
Innocence Lost Task Forces recover 2,200 victims over 10 years page 58
How many victims within our borders? page 20
100,000 children estimated to be in the sex trade in the US each year page 59
Human trafficking vs Border Patrol Agents smuggling humans page 21
NYPD Det. Wayne Taylor gets little over 3 years pimps 13 year old girl page 60
Despite millions spent, human trafficking’s scope is unknown page 22
Ronald Miko- PA cop- pimped young girls- 38 mos in prison page 61
Dept. Justice Human Trafficking Incidents 2007- 2008 report page 23 -24
Hundreds of teenagers are raped in jail by prison staff page 62
Bureau of Justice Statistics Human Trafficking Victims page 25
10 Facts About Child Sexual Abuse - Stats on Child Sexual Abuse page 63
2007 Comparison Chart I: Average monthly incidents rape/ human
Most child victims are abused by someone they know and trust page 64
trafficking/ domestic violence/ prostitution arrests page 26
How are we going to protect children from the majority of predators? page 65
Dept. Justice Human Trafficking Incidents 2008- 2010 report page 27
Protecting children who are NOT victims of sexual exploitation page 66
Confirmed victims 2008- 2010 - 301 per year... page 28
2008- 2010 Comparison Chart II- Average monthly incidents rape
Part III- “Prostitution is like rape...” page 67
human trafficking/ domestic violence/ prostitution arrests page 29
According to Melissa Farley and others prostitution is like rape page 68
June 2013 TIP Report ‘Modern-day slavery': State Dept. says millions
...except when prostitutes actually get raped page 69
of human trafficking victims go unidentified page 30
REAL Rape Victims Get Screwed
Only 46,570 victims of human trafficking identified in 2012 page 31
“Bad for the Body- Bad for the Heart” page 70
Summary of Stats on Monthly Averages 2007- 2010 page 32
VP Joe Biden: Abused Women Fear They Will 'Get Raped Again
Cost of Prostitution arrests- Hastings Law Journal/ LA Times 1987 page 33
By The System' page 71
Is the government so incompetent it cannot find the victims? And
Spreadsheet / data- 2011 reported rapes/ sexual assaults/ arrests page 72
who are the victims anyway? page 34
Dept. of Justice Criminal Victimizations 2011 Report page 73
The Polaris Project - Stats/ state by state/ explanation of calls page 35 -37
Rape on College Campuses page 74
Redeemed Ministries, TX- “Victims don’t realize they are victims” page 38
Rape and women in the military
Denver CO vice cop “We have to help them realize they are victims” page 39
Pentagon battling military rape ‘epidemic‘ page 75
How to tell ‘sex slaves’ from ‘sex workers’ part I page 40
Military Sexual Abuse: A Greater Menace Than Combat page 76
How to tell ‘sex slaves’ from ‘sex workers’ part II page 41
Is female soldiering ‘like rape’? page 77
If all prostitutes are victims, why does the government threaten them
Rape behind bars- inmate rape by staff
with incarceration? page 42
Double Injustice - rape of women in prison page 78
Aren’t there some prostitutes who are victims of sex trafficking? page 43
Oklahoma Sheriff Running Sex-Slave Operation From Jail page 79
Latimer County Sheriff charged with having sex with inmates page 80
Part II- “What about the Children?” page 44
Former police chief sentenced to 25 years for raping inmates page 81
Rachael Maddow... say that such kidnappings are very rare page 45
‘Pillars of the community’ with SO MUCH to lose rape inmates page 82
‘the average age of entry into prostitution is 12/ 13/ 14‘ page 46
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Part III- “Prostitution is like rape” continued...
Rape behind bars- inmate rape by staff ... continued One in three women experience sexual or physical violence -
Two Women Claim Texas Jailers Ran a 'Rape Camp' page 83 most likely from their intimate partner page 109
Texas Rape Camp- Sex Slaves Behind Bars page 84 Violence against women by the numbers page 110
Woman Prisoner in Solitary for Reporting Rape by Guard page 85 CHART: Estimates Domestic All Violence Against Women 2013 page 111
It costs too much to protect inmates from rapist guards page 86 Summary Rape /Domestic Violence /Prostitution ..in the USA page 112
Georgia inmates being taken off the grounds to work as prostitutes page 87 Ending the Demand The so called “Swedish Model”
500 current and former female inmates in Michigan’s prison system Sweden Treating Prostitution as Violence Against Women page 113
who alleged that the male officers raped them page 88 How Swedish Sex Workers feel about the “Swedish Model” page 114
Resources and more articles about inmate rape: page 89 What the Swedish Model Actually Does for Sex Workers page 115
Rape Kits Untested Swedish King at centre of strip club scandal page 116
States have no resources to arrest, prosecute and incarcerate the rapists Top Swedish Prosecutor caught hiring prostitutes page 117
whose victims have reported a crime page 90 The state- the biggest pimp of all page 118
Hundreds of thousands of rape kits go untested for decades page 91 Domestic violence is far more common among the families of
Most recent "wave" of 200 resulted in the detection of 21 serial rapists police officers than among the rest of the population page 119
among 153 test results include prostitute rapist/killer Shelly Brooks page 92 Sex workers say “‘Violence against women’” is violence against women-
Cost of prostitution arrests vs. lab testing of rape kits page 93 NOT “prostitution is violence against women” page 120
Resources and more articles about untested rape kits page 94 Consider: police are allowed to go as far as necessary to secure an arrest
Cops Rape Prostitutes (see longer list in PartV) for prostitution even if the ‘victim’ has not asked for help page 121
1993: 25 Newark NJ police officers accused of raping, robbing and
beating prostitutes NOT arrested or charged with a crime page 95 Part V- Cops / judges/ solicit/ rape/ extort/ pimp/ murder prostitutes page 122
2008 “No rape charges filed against cop” page 96 The horror stories actual cases Images of cops page 123
1986 Judge Says Law Doesn't Protect Prostitutes, Drops Rape Count page 97 “A prostitute stood virtually no chance of proving rape, especially
Judge Alston says prostitutes can’t be raped is former LAPD cop page 98 against a policeman” Prostitution Polygamy and Power page 124
Approximately 100 officers took part in “Operation Silver Bullet” netting There are ways for madams, prostitutes traffickers to work/ no arrest page 125
14 arrests or 7 cops per suspected prostitute page 99 Cops Use Madams and Prostitutes as Informants
Cops Have Sex With Prostitutes to “Rescue” Them LAPD and Madam Alex-”best informant we ever had” page 126
Four more times the officer went back- had sex with alleged prostitute- LAPD is far from the only police department using prostitutes
because of concerns of possible human trafficking page 100 and madams as informants page 127
Spotsylvania Deputies Receive Sex Services in Prostitution Cases page 101 Policemen picked up prostitutes ,took them to Griffith Park, where they
2006 Cops pay paid the informant $180 for his "time" and gave him had sex in exchange for not hassling them page 128
money to pay for sexual acts page 102 Prostitute was to be a key witness in the Hollywood Cop scandal, she
2010 Green Tree Police Chief Gets Naked During Prostitution Sting page 103 was murdered, her throat slit page 129
“The case is further strengthened if the informant has sex with multiple In all of Ohio, the most common buyers... were law enforcement page 130
employees because it shows prostitution is prevalent” says FBI agent page 104 COPS/ POLICE CHIEFS/JUDGES RAPE/EXTORT PROSTITUTES -
NATIONAL FBI CRIMINAL STATISTICS - 1991-2010 page 105 1993 26 Newark cops accused of raping, robbing beating prostitutes page 131
Sex workers say “THE ONLY THING LIKE RAPE IS RAPE” page 106 2010 “Bitch- I can do anything I f..king want..” Officer Thomas Sadler page 132
2012 Officer Daniel Dana gets probation raping prostitute because prosecutor
Part IV- “Prostitution is violence against women...” page 107 thought a jury would not believe a cop raped a prostitute page 133
Domestic Violence is Violence Against Women 2013 Ex-West Sacramento officer in court on sexual assault charges page 134
World Health Organization- 33% of all women victims of violence page 108
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Part V- Cops solicit/ rape/ extort/ pimp/ murder prostitutes continued COPS PIMP PROSTITUTES
COPS/ JUDGES/ POLICE CHIEFS RAPE/ EXTORT PROSTITUTES cont. 2011 A longtime Pittsburgh cop ran a prostitution service page 164
2007 Albuquerque police officer David Maes plead no-contest to 2013 New York State trooper organized parties with prostitutes
rape of prostitute and was sentenced to probation page 135 while off-duty - sentenced to three years probation page 165
2012 Cop accused of robbing, sexually assaulting prostitute page 136 2013 Garland Co. sheriff's deputy arrested for enticing an
2011 Police officer Anthony Rollins guilty of sexual assaults page 137 individual to engage in prostitution page 166
In court documents, the municipality states it “did not have a legal duty 2011 CA state drug agent Norman Wielsch /other cops steal
to protect” the women from a rapist law enforcement officer page 138 from prostitutes and run prostitution ring page 167
2007 Officer Steven Lelinski used his police powers to pursue his victims 1984 SF Cops hire prostitute to perform oral sex on cadet at
and assault them.Pattern stretched back at least 10 years page 139 graduation party- not indicted for pandering page 168
Lelinski accused of sexually assaulting nine women over a decade but never 1985 LA Prosecutors claim pandering worse than rape or robbery
charged - prosecutors said the accusers were not credible page 140 in appeal to re-sentence former traffic cop turned call girl to
2007 Officer Roger Magaña Eugene OR women complained frequently mandatory 3 year prison term page 169
he used his badge to force sex- Eugene police did nothing page 141 2012 Memphis cop arrested on sex trafficking charge page 170
The prosecution outlined allegations against officer Roger Magana from 2012 Conn. State trooper accused of running prostitution ring page 171
ten different women page 2010 Former Erie County Sheriff's Deputy Pleads Guilty in
2006 Philadelphia cops James Fallon and Timothy Carre page 143 Connection with Jester Prostitution Case page 172
2007 Boston cop Michael LoPriore said he was "not a bad person" when he 2012 NYPD cop accused of pimping after phone-tap page 173
flashed his badge forced a prostitute to perform sex on him page 144 1991 Ex-Police Officer convicted operating prostitution ring page 174
1995 Long Beach cop raped prostitute gets five years probation page 145 2012 Cudahy city officials wanted to run massage parlor page 175
2010 Beaverton cop admits raping prostitute while on duty page 146 2010 Seven women arrested on suspicion of intending to commit
2011 Albuquerque Judge Murdoch arrested rape of prostitute page 147 prostitution- men sent home with warning not to come back page 176
2009 Judge Michael Hecht accused of paying man for sex/ threatened COPS SOLICIT PROSTITUTES
to kill another man who talked about having sex with him page 148 2012 State DPS Officer Arrested in Prostitution Case page 177
1988 CA State Inquiry Links Judges prostitutes/ sexual favors page 149 2012 Gwinnett County cop arrested soliciting a prostitute page 178
1984 Judge Diaz /fined put on probation for sex with prostitute page 150 COPS SOLICIT PROSTITUTES/ DON’T GET FIRED
2004 Chief arrested at alleged brothel Runnemede's (NJ) police chief ... 2013 sheriff's deputy busted in a prostitution sting will most
caught in a prostitution sting- paid 105 visits to brothel page 151 likely not be fired page 179
2005 Retired N.J. Police Chief Admits Promoting Prostitution page 152 2013 Menlo Park cop caught with prostitute keeps job page 180
2011 Romulus Police Chief used forfeiture money to buy prostitutes page 153 2013 Prostitute with Menlo cop arrested, prosecuted page 181
2012 Treasury Department officials cited for soliciting prostitutes page 154 1988 LAPD Sergeant Guilty of Lewd Conduct- not fired page 182
2006 Cop Ken Johnson accepted sex prostitutes to not arrest them page 155 COPS/ POLITICIANS SOLICIT UNDERAGE PROSTITUTES
2011 New Orleans cop Henry Hollins- predator with a badge page 156 2012 Raleigh cop charged promoting prostitution of a minor page 183
2012 MO Cop Jeff Holmes sex with prostitutes to not arrest them page 157 2013 Northwest Police Lt. Michael Hayes charged with
2013 Lowell MA cop sentenced to two years in jail plead guilty to extorting solicitation of a minor for prostitution page 184
sexual favors from prostitutes, on and off duty page 158 COPS RAPE/ KILL/ SHOOT PROSTITUTES
1930s NYPD-The courts were in cahoots with vice detectives shaking 1991 Bronx cop charged in rape/ investigated in slaying of
down prostitutes and sending them to prison if they didn't pay up page 159 another prostitute page 185
1930s NYPD cont. DA Thomas Crain's observable unwillingness to 2011 Palm Beach County grand jury indicted former Florida Atlantic
prosecute two Tenderloin vice squad plainclothesmen page 160 Univ Police corporal on charges of first-degree murder page 186
1998 NYPD- 19 Officers Accused of Allowing N.Y. Brothel to operate 2006 Kern County Sheriff’s deputy sentenced to death for
in Exchange for Sex page 161 murdering two prostitutes page 187
2013 LAPD cops Valenzuela and Nichols accused forcing prostitutes 1973 Gerard Schaefer, Deputy Sheriff, Martin County, Florida
to have sex page 162 a self- proclaimed messiah put on earth to rid the world of all whores,
2000 Ex NJ Police Chief who ran a corrupt force is sentenced page 163 sinners and disobedient women... page 188
NHIs Why Cops don’t investigate the murders of prostitutes page 189
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How many are ‘too many’? Or does it matter to you? pg# 190
LIST OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENTS CAUGHT WITH MINORS
List of law enforcement agents who rape/ extort/ solicit/pimp prostitutes
OR POSSESSING CHILD PORN
page # 191
page # 192 page # 217
page # 193 page # 218
page # 194 page # 219
page # 195 page # 220
page # 196
page # 221
page # 222
Part VI- “Even One is Too Many” Cops and Minors page 197
page # 223
COPS MOLEST CHILDREN/ MINORS page 198
page # 224
2011 Former Alameda CA Sheriff's Deputy Michael Bareno
Charged With Child Molestation- sentenced to 1 year page 199
IN SUMMARY page 225
2012 Anthony Mangione- ICE Agent/ Relentless Anti- Child Porn
Crusader- Arrested for possessing/ distributing CHILD PORN page 200
Suggested Further Reading URLS page 226
2010 Ken Tomlinson- Police Chief, Boy scout Master, Pedophile page 201
2010 Bakersfield (CA) cop Christopher Bowersox facing federal
Appendix
child pornography charges page 202 : page 227- 246
2010 Albuquerque Officer accused of rape of girl under 12 page 203 Spreadsheets Graphs Data from the FBI Bureau of Justice Statistics:
2011 Concord CA: Former Sheriff's Deputy Sentenced for molesting daughter: 1991- 2010 Analysis/ Comparison of Rape/ Sexual Assault Reported to Police/ Arrests
three counts of child molestation receives 3 years page 204 for Rapes and Sexual assaults/Arrests for Prostitution/ Comparison of Murder by
1986 LAPD cop Michael Casados charged with raping 15 year old girl- Circumstances- Prostitutes, Law Enforcement Agents, Children by Babysitters,
over a period of 5 years -had been charged previously page 205 Murder during Rapes, Murder of Persons involved in Romantic Triangle/ Drug Arrests
2012 ROCKWOOD MI Cop arraigned on sex charges w 17 year old
student/ Cop previously fired, rehired page 206 1981- 2011 Arrests of Persons for Prostitution and Disorderly Conduct by Age and
2011 Salinas CA cop gets 9 months jail for molesting 12 year old girl page 207 Gender (all links to original sources can be found on the
2011 Ex-cop who molested underage teen gets 4 years prison- gave girl policeprostitutionandpolitics.com website by going to the page titled 1981- 2011 FBI
an STD for life page 208 CRIMINAL STATISTICS PROSTITUTION ARRESTS ETC
2012 Harrodsburg (KY) cop gets three years for raping 14 year old girl page 209
2012 McHenry Co. deputy indicted child sex abuse of 10 year old page 210
Laws should not be so flexible and arbitrarily enforceable
2012 Boulder Co.CO Deputy guilty Internet sexual exploitation
that they can excuse the guilty and punish the innocent...
of 11 year old child page 212
nor should they be used as a club by those who enforce the
2012 Former cop convicted -had over 140,000 pictures of child porn page 213
law to obtain otherwise unobtainable testimony, or to elicit
2012 Former South Carolina trooper gets 3 years in child porn case page 214
favors of whatever nature from the alleged law breakers
2013 NYPD Cop Arrested for raping 16 year old girl- wife caught them in bed
who are also considered ‘victims,‘ or to provide the law
He got girl drunk first... page 215
enforcer with the means to grant special treatment to those
2010 Report CATO Institute Police Misconduct- cops sex assault of minors
who ‘comply’ with the otherwise unlawful requests which,
more than sex assault of adults page 216
if made by anyone other than a government agent, would
constitute extortion and blackmail.
Norma Jean Almodovar 2013
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Introduction
A century ago, moral crusader Ernest A. Bell, secretary of the Illinois Vigilance Association and Superintendent of
Midnight Missions, began a crusade to ‘educate’ Americans about the “White Slave Trade” and the need to prevent
young women from leaving the safety and protection of the rural home and go to the big cities. He was convinced that
by allowing our ‘virtuous’ young women to set out on their own; to find jobs, to live alone, to become independent-
meant that they would be kidnapped and forced into the ‘sex trade’ by unscrupulous madams and pimps, to live out
their short lives as sex slaves.
In his 1910 self- published book, “Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls- War on the White Slave Trade,” he sternly
lectured parents on the need to keep their daughters safe from the unknown. Then, as now, the public’s fear of
‘foreigners’ (immigrants) was used to provoke them to action and was the driving force behind the religious crusade.
“The First Step- Ice cream parlors of the city and fruit stores combined, largely run by foreigners, are the places where
scores of girls have taken their first step downward. Does her mother know the character of the place and the man she
is with?” His was a fight based on the belief that a ‘good’ woman did not naturally possess sexuality and even if she
did, it must be suppressed at all costs to ensure that she made the right kind of wife.
At the same time, but for entirely different reasons, the progressive movement also commenced its campaign against
commercialized vice, in its abiding desire to impose its ‘superior’ social values on the poor folk who needed their
benevolent guidance. Two groups entirely diametrically opposed in philosophy and purpose joined together to stop what
they called ‘the social evil’ of prostitution. The former group professed concern for the souls of the sinners, while the latter
group professed concern for the ‘emotional well being’ of those women it also saw as ‘sex slaves,’ young women under
the control of powerful men who coerced innocent females into the sex trade for profit.
Never did it enter the minds of either group that grown women could make financial choices that included profiting from
their sexuality in the same way that millions of women have done throughout history. Nor did they concern themselves
with the ever reoccurring consequences that plague every prohibition of human vices since the beginning of civilization-
the corruption of those entrusted with the enforcement of either moral laws or social taboos. Whether 100 years ago or
1,000 years ago, bad laws create bad law enforcers, destroying the trust of the public and harming society as a whole in far
worse ways than permitting adults to engage in consensual activity either by themselves (think masturbation) or with
others who share their alleged ‘perversions’ (think homosexuality). No matter how well intended, laws enacted ‘for one’s
own good’ are never good. Rational people understand that, but seldom are rational people elected to public office.
In her work, “The Vice Trust: A Reinterpretation Of The White Slavery Scare In The United States, 1907-1917,” Mara L. Keire writes “In the
narratives of the white slavery scare, which peaked in the United States between 1910 and 1913, urban reformers intertwined the story of the
sexually coerced maiden with a heated condemnation of the business of vice. Although the white slavery scare was an international panic, local
reformers gave white slavery narratives local relevance by retelling the story in language particular to period and place. Unlike the French,
American reformers did not counterbalance tales of violently raped virgins with a defense of regulated prostitution. Americans were trying to
shut down, not keep open, tolerated brothels... Instead, Progressive-era reformers turned to the language of economics, particularly the
corrupting power of trusts and their control of society, to frame their attack on urban vice.”
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One hundred years later, the crusade continues, and unfortunately for sex workers, the conflation of sex work and
sex slavery- or as it is now called, ‘sex trafficking’- prove that neither the religious right or the progressives/
radical feminists really care about the individual sex worker... it is an agenda to be imposed on all women
regardless of the cost to individual women (and men). In the recent Canadian sex worker fight for their rights, the
issue of sex worker safety under the current laws was heard in court. “Nobody cares about safety of sex
workers, court hears” headlined the June 16, 2011 ‘National Post.’
The court heard testimony from groups supporting and opposing a change in the law, to give sex workers the right
to protect themselves and make their work safer. Prostitution itself is not illegal in Canada, however, it is illegal to
communicate with anyone in such a way that could help protect a sex worker and give him/ her the ability to
negotiate condom use with a potential client, or to work with other sex workers in a safe environment.
Writes journalist Adrian Humphreys, “A coalition of feminist and progressive groups, however, stood alongside the
conservative Christian organizations in supporting the current laws, although for different reasons.
Janine Benedet, lawyer arguing on behalf of the Women’s Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution, comprised of seven women’s groups,
including the Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres, argued the laws should be kept so men can be penalized for victimizing women.
“We feel comfortable referring to prostitution as the world’s oldest profession but not as the world’s oldest men’s pastime,” said Ms. Benedet.
“Prostitution itself is harmful to women. The danger to women’s security is a function not of the laws constraining prostitution, but of the
actions of men who demand the sale of women’s bodies. It would be illogical and contrary to principles of fundamental justice to
decriminalize men’s prostitution of women in order to protect women from those same men,” court was told.
Addressing arguments that prostitutes would be safer if they were allowed to work in homes or brothels, she said: “It is not locations that kills
women. They are not killed by apartment or houses, they are killed by johns and pimps.” [There is no solid evidence to support their theory,
but it scares the public into accepting their irrational arguments against decriminalizing or legalizing adult prostitution, a move that
would obviously improve the safety of both the sex workers and the clients. When anyone is a victim of a crime, it is much better for them
if they can access the criminal justice system to report crimes against them, than it is for them to fear going to the authorities because they
may get arrested rather than the perpetrator. And no, ‘ending the demand’ by criminalizing clients is NOT a valid solution to anything!]
The attorney for the Catholic Rights League made it abundantly clear that the church does not care about the safety of prostitutes- it only cares
that its moral values be imposed on EVERYONE, including prostitutes. And if they die, they die. No big loss. Just NHIs.
“Prostitution is immoral and should be eradicated through strict laws, even if that leaves sex trade workers vulnerable to attack, argued
Ranjan Agarwal, a lawyer representing the Christian Legal Fellowship, Catholic Rights League and REAL Women of Canada.
“Parliament intended to eradicate prostitution” by enacting these laws because it is “an attack on the fundamental values of modern Canadian
society,” he said.
But, asked Justice David Doherty, what if that meant sex workers die as a result, wouldn’t that be harm out of proportion from the intended good?
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No, Mr. Agarwal said, such an outcome is a “sad side effect,” and it was better for Parliament to “send a signal” to anyone thinking of entering the
sex trade that there was great risk involved. His stance caused a ripple of derision from several sex workers observing the proceedings.”
What he is saying is that it is better for society if such immoral women were murdered - even by cops- rather than be permitted to remain at large
where their ‘sinful lifestyle’ may attract/ lure other - more virtuous- women into the profession. Police corruption and abuse of those ‘victims’-
regardless of how pervasive and damaging it is to everyone in society- is apparently entirely irrelevant to both factions opposed to the right of adult
women to real autonomy and ‘choice.’ How can anyone dismiss the overwhelming evidence that law enforcement agents- including chiefs of police,
FBI agents, Secret Service agents, judges, lawyers, prosecutors, prison staff, governors, law makers and politicians, as well as religious leaders,
celebrities and others- cannot be trusted to use the laws which prohibit prostitution to ‘protect’ those whom these groups consider ‘victims’?
William Shakespeare, who captured so well the essence of human nature, nailed it in his work “King Lear”- “Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody
hand. Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back. Thou hotly lust’st to use her in that kind For which thou whipp’st her.” In plain english,
“You stupid cop, stop your violence! Why are you whipping that whore? You should be whipping yourself, since you lust after her and yearn to do
the same thing for which you’re punishing her.” [act 4, scene 6, page 7]
Kirsten Powers, in the March 2, 2009 New York Post, proclaimed “SEX SLAVERY: AMERICA IN DENIAL” in which she opined “SOCIETY
calls them prostitutes, but it would be more accurate to call them slaves. Hollywood glamorizes the "happy hooker" and the media deceive by
portraying the exception (the woman who is enjoying the "high life" as a prostitute) as the rule. The reality is much more gruesome. Just last week, the
FBI rescued [arrested] 48 teenagers, some as young as 13, who were working in the illegal sex trade...
Consider...had that FBI sting last week come a few years later, many of those rescued girls would be over 18, and people would argue that as adults
they "chose" to become prostitutes - and the girls would be treated as criminals. In fact, they're still simply sex slaves. And it is slavery, because they
never see a dime of money from the pimps, and they have no freedom of movement. Advocates talk ominously of the initial "seasoning period" when
the victim is repeatedly raped, beaten, starved, locked in a closet and generally forced into submission. The pimp then gives her a new name and tells
her she's now a prostitute.” You mean like NYPD Detective Wayne Taylor said to the 13 year old girl he pimped and forced into prostitution?
I have news for you, Ms. Powers, this may be true for some, but it is NOT true for most of us who have ever worked as a sex worker. And it is
time to stop your fatuous rhetoric and realize the serious harm that is done to those whom you self- righteous prostitution abolitionist zealots
consider ‘victims’ and ‘sex slaves,’ at the hands of those whom YOU entrust with our lives and our freedom. In this age of instant media
information, you cannot claim to be unaware of these outcomes.
As I will prove in the following document, it is the unsubstantiated claims of ‘sex slavery’ and ‘human trafficking’ made by abolitionists like this
woman who make possible the horrific and unacceptable consequences- whether or not intended- shown in case after case, using the government’s
own statistics and reports.
Given those consequences and the fact that they occur in every country and throughout history wherever adult women are not permitted to speak for
themselves or make their own choices, it is unconscionable for anyone of any political or religious persuasion to continue the vitriolic crusade against
adult sex work, sex workers and their non violent, non abusive clients, employers or associates, and to persist with conflation of ‘sex work’ with ‘sex
slavery.’ You may not approve of prostitution; you may believe we are being exploited or that we are immoral, but by giving so much power over the
lives of adult and child prostitutes to law enforcement agencies and all the ancillary professions, groups, organizations and individuals who benefit
from the infantilization of adult sex workers, you are the cause of and not the solution to, the problem.
Norma Jean Almodovar, July 2013
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