The new Dick and Jane book. See Dick pay for sex; see Jane used by Dick.
The city of Berlin has prompted outrage from locals after offering a graphic picture book on prostitution to children via its official website. The book, titled Rosie Needs Money (Rosi sucht Geld), is advertised as a resource for youth aged 6 to 12 years old.
For the girls in case they want to go into the trade, for the boys in case they want to look forward to paying women to be raped.
Bizarrely, the book concludes with quotes from children and young people who live in areas where street prostitution takes place. Most of the sentiment is overwhelmingly negative, and presented as examples of attitudes towards prostitution in youth which require discussion.
“I’m ashamed to live here… I can’t sleep well at night… Why is there no prostitution next to a town hall?” wonders one youth.
“I’m afraid of the johns. Even though I have curtains, I’m afraid to change in my room. Why do we residents and the ladies have to suffer just because the men can’t find a wife?” asks another.
Because that’s called being “sex-positive.” Complaining about it is called being “sex-negative” and “mean to sex workers.”
Arrow said that the decriminalization of the sex trade in Germany has resulted in the exploitation of migrant women, and emphasized that there had been a recent increase in the numbers of women from Ukraine who had fled their home country after the Russian invasion. According to government statistics, the amount of women from Ukraine registered as “prostitutes” doubled between 2021 and 2022.
It’s very kind of Germany to help Ukraine this way.
Last year, Reduxx reported that Google searches for terms such as “Ukrainian girls,” “Ukrainian porn,” and “war porn” spiked during the first week of the conflict.
It was later learned that a Berlin-based “sex work” advocacy agency “made up of trans and non-binary sexworkers” used social media to solicit Ukrainian refugee women for information on entering the legal German sex trade.
Ah, well then. The only inclusive thing to do is embrace all this lovely sex work advocacy with open arms legs.
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live site is scrubbed already (reduxx link to archive.md snapshot now)
but they apparently still host the PDF file, can be found by search engines
anyway, about the quotes:
there are also 2 given by Sexarbeiterinnen
1st original
1st translation
2nd original
2nd translation
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I almost threw up when I read the Reduxx story and Twitter threads about this. There is one page where Rosie tells the children that men pay her because they want to “put their penis in her vagina, in and out a few times, not much to it.” Like being used as a human fleshlight is perfectly normal, and no johns are violent and sadistic who want more than a few minutes of PIV intercourse, no anal rape, no suffocating oral sex, no choking, spitting, degrading, no violent pimps.
That one quote talks about men who can’t find wives, but in reality, married men also use prostitutes. I don’t know what percentage, or whether they are using them because their wives aren’t willing to give them blow jobs or anal, but that probably doesn’t matter.
I hate couching it as “men who can’t find wives” because it doesn’t capture the reality quite completely. Men don’t stop exploiting and abusing women when they find wives; sometimes they transfer it to their wives, sometimes it’s just adding a new subject to exploit.
It’s the same when people talk about Catholic priests raping because they are celibate. Since other clergy also rape women, children, and boys, it doesn’t really have to do with celibacy, right?
The thing isn’t so much about needing sex as it is about power, humiliation of women (and boys), and just in general showing their manly superiority. Until we address that, we won’t be able to solve problems such as exploitation of prostitutes or domestic violence against women.
Also, the whole ‘men who can’t get wives’ justification is just a very small step away from the Incel demands that women for sex be provided as a ‘right’. Once a society has agreed that it’s ok to sell temporary use of women for sex, it’s a much smaller step to mandate ‘resource allocation’ as a matter of commerce.
This is why I decided that New Zealand’s legalisation of prostitution was a mistake. It was justified partly on the grounds of improved safety and security for prostitutes (taking them out from under the thumb of criminals and removing fear of punishment by Police); but also as a matter of free choice and empowerment. In practice, very very few prostitutes are middle class, educated, and qualified for other well paying jobs. The overwhelming number are still from desperate circumstances, lacking qualifications, often addicts, lacking other clear viable options. In some areas with a high number of under-aged teens (which of course is not legal), especially so in areas with high rates of unemployment.
There’s no real free choice if you have to choose between economic and social security or poverty or homelessness.
You’re right, Rob. I lived in NZ when the law was changed and thought it was a good thing.
At the time, I worked at Waltham, lived St Albans/Edgeware, so travelled Manchester Street by car or cycle, depending on the weather. There was no change to the number of girls and women offering their bodies on the street. The same around Latimer Sq when I’d be leaving the Christchurch Club of an evening.
SOOBS* were a good idea, IMHO, but better welfare and the elimination of “customers” would be better.
*https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/SOOB
Rev, that’s my old home town. I know exactly what you mean. There have been women picked up and killed in that area, even since the changes supposed to make them safe. If there are murders, there are sure as hell assaults and rapes we never here about.
I was in favor of legalizing it as a way to allow the prostitutes to unionize, as COYOTE claimed, and to protect women from the pimps who were exploiting them. It’s an example of how men don’t really have the sort of empathy needed to understand why prostitution is really so awful, and making judgments without a better understanding.
I had thought it would decrease trafficking, too, but that doesn’t seem to be the case because with legalizing the “trade,” there is less risk for traffickers and it makes it easier for them to lie to desperate women that it’s all good in Germany.