Reflection 2

  After the second meeting with teacher, I think something deeper about my paper. Actually, establishing a red-light district is a complicated issue. Because what it involves not only the sex workers or people who need sex. It is also related to the economical problem. In some places, people refuse to establish red-light district because that they afraid it would cause the drop of the value of the houses locally. I think this consequence results from the negative conception about sexual industry. This is a kind of thinking to "stigmatize" sex workers. People feel uncomfortable about sex workers, and doesn't want to have any relationship with them. This enables me to rethink the importance of education about sex, about sex workers again. The government should put emphasis on this part since a person was young indeed. Looking back on the process of my studying, I didn't think sex can become a normal job as others until I go to the university. I was told that having sexual relationship with someone in order to earn money is not a good thing, is a shameful job. And the traditional conception tells us that using sex as a job would ruin the morality and violate the social value. But I was not aware that why sex is shameful? It seems that sex can only be a private issue, it can not be discussed in public. I believe that if my teacher discusses sex naturally and talks about sex workers without any embarrassment since I was a child, I would not suspect that sex can become a job that some people choose to take, and it could be respected as well.

   It is hard for sex workers be accepted by everyone in society nowadyas. Otherwise we would not see that when sex workers  go to street for their working rights, some people would say that they are shameless! Leading the impression of sexworkers positivelt is hard now. Because this is the value that most people believe in the society. If we want to change, the only we can do is educate the next generation the new conception about sex wrokers.  

Revised Annotation 4- When Sea becomes a work-face to face to sex workers

In my revised annotation 4

1. I put a sex worker's oponion about the red-light districts in my annotation 4.
   
2. And I would like to explain my attitude to the sex workers and the customers.

 On Nov 22, 2011, COSWAS-Collective Of Sex Workers And Supporters(日日春關懷互助協會), an association which aims at the righs of sex workers came to our school to give a lecture. And a sex worker was involved as well. Her name is Miko. She talked about her experience as a sex worker from the beginning of his job to now. And she also responded to the government's policy about the establishment of red-light districts. What she answered was really interesting. She said" What is a red-light districts? Where should this specific area be established? To say directly, On my bed!  If the area was established in Mazu(馬祖), people who have need of sex have to go to there by airplane to consume? So establishing such an area is quite ridiculous! Why don't the government gather the sex workers to talk about this policy? This policy can't help us at all! On the surface, they said that to establish such area is to manage Taiwan's sex industry. Sexual transction in this area is legal, but  out of the area will be punished. Ater they publishing this policy, our customers decrease in evidence. They are afraid of being punished, so they would rather stand their sex desire! This policy is really unjust to us!"

  From what the sex worker said, I could clearly know that what they want is not to establish such a specific area, they just want to have rights of working. She mentioned an important point. If a red- light district is established in a place that is far away from people, should any one who desires for sex spends lots of times and transportation fee to go there? The inconvenience of  arrival makes the situation of sex workers worser. Because people would not pay more money on transportation. They think it is not worth it. Then the customers in red-light district would decrease immediately. This leads to the decrease of sex workers' working chance as well.  What's more, those sex workers might run a risk of having sexual transaction out of the red-light district, though they would be punished if they are caught. After all, they have to earn money to raise themselves. The place where less customers would like to flock means the less money they would earn.

   Human being's desire for sex is quite nomal, and sex becomes a work is normal as well. The sex workers just offer service to those who need sex. Like other jobs,  the sex workers satisfy customers. My attitude toward sex transaction is that both of the sex workers and the customers should not be punished. Under this situation, whether to set a specific area to divide the legal and illegal areas is not important at all. We should focus on the manner of managing such a job. When sex becomes a job, it should have legal licenses to apply too. It should pay tax to government , and it should abide by the rules that goverment makes. All these conditions are what a legal job should have.

Annotation 4- When Sex Becomes a Job- face to face to the sex worker

  On Nov 22, 2011, COSWAS-Collective Of Sex Workers And Supporters(日日春關懷互助協會), an association which aims at the righs of sex workers came to our school to give a lecture. And a sex worker was involved as well. Her name is Miko. She talked about her experience as a sex worker from the beginning of his job to now. And she also responded to the government's policy about the establishment of red-light districts. What she answered was really interesting. She said" What is a red-light districts? Where should this specific area be established? To say directly, On my bed!  If the area was established in Mazu(馬祖), people who have need of sex have to go to there by airplane to consume? So establishing such an area is quite ridiculous! Why don't the government gather the sex workers to talk about this policy? This policy can't help us at all! On the surface, they said that to establish such area is to manage Taiwan's sex industry. Sexual transction in this area is legal, but  out of the area will be punished. Ater they publishing this policy, our customers decrease in evidence. They are afraid of being punished, so they would rather stand their sex desire! This policy is really unjust to us!" So what the sex workers want is not to establish such a specific area, they just want to have rights of working.

Annotation 3 -Making effective rules to manage the sexual industry

This is me revised annotation 3

1. I explain the context of the viedo I found which is about the legal official prostitutions in detailed.

2.I also found a regulation on official prostitution  which was published by Taipei government in 1999 to support my idea that having rules to manage is more important than discuss a specific area to manage the sex workers.

3. In the end, I give some feasible schemes to solve the problems.


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  The video(2009, reported on Zhong-Tian news) shows that there are 51 legal sex workers in Taiwan. They have legal licenses to engage in sexual transaction. And they receive the healthy exams every year. So the residents in this area don't worry about this red-light district will bring any problem and discomfort to them.  It also mentions that the sex workers in this red-light district are all over the legal age to engage in sexual transaction, and they don't have any marital relationship with others. Furtermore,  they have to gain there parents' agreement.

  Clearly, through making some restrictions to regulate sex workers, the existence of sexual industry will not be a trouble to the residents near them. Why we are afraid of establishing red-light districts near us? Because we think that it will ruin the morality in society and disturb us in our life. But under the strict rules, the problems that we are worried about can be solved. First, they have legal licenses, it presents that they are in goverment's control. They don't have to meet the gangs' threat, and the public security could also be protected as well. Second, they receive healthy exams regularily to ensure that they are not affected with any sex disease. So not only the sex workers but also the customers and residents don't have to worry about the affection of sex diseases.

  As for the problem of obstructing family or disturbing our life, I find a regulation on official prostitution (1998, published by Taipei government from the website http://coswas.org/www/regulation.htm ) which involves many rules to regulate the sex workers in Taipei before the abolishing of official prostitutions. In Chapter 3, the eleventh, the sixth point, it shows that official prostitutions cannot obstruct family. And the twelevth, the first point says that they cannot solicit in public. Furthermore, there are still many rules to regulate sexworkers in detailed in this regulation, no matter about their health, their age, or the morality of occupation they should have. But this regulation was abolished in 2001. If the goverment focus on the part of "making rules" to regulate the dispersed sex workers rather than establish a specific area, the sex workers can own their right of working, and they would be accepted by the residents near them.

    The government can also give some subsidy mesures to the risidents near them. For example, they can have tax reduction or benefit. And they can possess the free healthy exams once in a year. On the other hand, it is necessary for the government to convene a conference to plain the policies they make to regulate the sexual industry in public. People can through the broadcasting of the conference to understand the laws or rules the governmemt make. This way, people may not worry about the red light districts near their living area after they realize how the government legalizes the sex workers. So the real problem is not whether to establish such a specific area to manage sex workers, the existence of  sex industry in many cities in Taiwan is a truth. Having some effective rules or laws to manage the sex workers and satisfy the residents near them is the most important thing.     

Annotation 3

  This video shows that there are 51 legal sex workers in Taiwan. They have legal licenses to engage in sexual transaction. And they receive the healthy exams every year. So the residents in this area don't worry about this red-light district will bring any problem and discomfort to them.  In fact, a man who lives near these sex workers says that it is not bad to legalize sexual working in proper, because haveing sex is all human beings' normal need. If we give more restrictions to sexual working, the moer problems will result in. It will become underground, and out of the government's management. But if the government make some rules to regulate them, it can not only satisfy sex workers' living but also those people who need sex. And it can make the residents who live near them are willing to receive them as well, just like the person's saying in the video. So, having some laws or rules to manage the sex workers is the most important thing.

Reflection 1

  After having a short meeting with teacher, I get some new ideas. Mei-Ya mentions that a editorial article which was published on the newspaper says something about the establishment of the red-light districts. It says that it is really ridiculoius to talk about whether to establish the red-light districts. Because many areas have sexual transaction in the massage stores, salons, or in the lanes. However, the sex workers will not do it in public. So the truth is that prostitution is existed, and even the police officers will not arrest them deliberately in some areas. It seems that the establishment of the red-loght districts is unnecessary. If we want to establish the red-light districts just like Holland, we change the sexual industry in Taiwan into a "sexual culture district". This is not the original purpose that we want to establish the red-light districts. And the government says that the purpose to establish such district is to manage the dispered sex workers conveniently. They should make some rules  to regulate the sex workers in thier working places now rather than establish such a specific area. So I will write my annotation toward this direction.

Giving Comments to annotation 2

To Iris:


  I agree with your idea that we can not satisfy the sutiation we are sometimes comes from comparing with others. This is a consequence of catogory. If the society has two groups, the rich and the poor, our self-catogory will catogorize oursevels to the group we belong to. So the poor will think that they are poor. In fact, they are really poor, compared with the rich. But the defination of poor is quite ambiguous to us. The word "poor" is a concept of the poor group that under the comparison with the rich.


To Ruby:
  On the views of the feminism, I think that you use the word "guility" is controversy. It seems that a young girl have sexual relationship with man is shameful. And she should be guility. Why can't a girl have desire to have sex with any man if she want? I don't think it's such a shameful thing. But I agree with your point that she might be infected with AIDS without any protection. I think this behavior shows her immaturity, though she thinks she is mature enough to have a baby. 


To Layla:

I agree with your point that homosexuals are not crimes, but I think this is the common thought shared by most people.No matter who can offer nice enviroment to the children, and gives them the better life, they are the suitable people to raise the children. But the problem is, there are still many people can't accept the child is adopted by homosexuals though they think that homosexual are not crimes. some people think that if  children are adopted by homosexuals, they will live under the pressure that their parents are homosexuals. And it is negative to the develoment of children mentally. How can you convince those people that this situation will not happen?
  I think if we can't eliminate the discrimination to the homosexuals, the homosexual adoption will not be accepted without any controverision. But if we have been educated that homosexuals are better than heterosexuaals since we were born, our notion will be chaned, will be different. So the point is that the discrimination to the homosexuals is rooted deeply for a long time.   

The Establishment of Red –light Districts -Related to Social Morality-revised annotation 2

This is the revision of my annotation 2.


1.I give some ideas based on the survey I found in the unrevised annotation 1, and I support the ideas through a book and the slogan of a organization.

2. Compared with the unrevised annotation 2, this article is more complete .

3. I check my grammer errors.

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   A newest survey( 2011, Apple News' survey, whether to establish the red-lightdistricts, Plus website http://www.plus28.com/thread-4275507-1-1.html)  which I found  accomplished by Apple News shows that there are 49.88% people agree with the establishment of red-light districts. However, when they are asked if they agree to establish red-light districts near there residential areas, only 34.20%people show there agreement. And people who show disagreement in this survey say it would lead to the ruin of morality. From this survey, it shows that we change our concept about sexual industry nowadays. It is acceptable for us to regard it as a legal occupation and receive the establishment of the specific working areas. Nevertheless, we still have many negative impression about prostitutes. So we don’t want the red-light districts established near our residential areas. We still see prostitution as a work that would break social morality. This becomes a strong barrier that results in many people’s disagreement.

    Some additional people in society think that women should abide by the three obediences and four virtues. If women have sexual relationship with other men for the money, they are not the good women that they expect. However, women have the rights to choose the occupations they want, they have the bodies decision-making rights to have sexual relation with whoever. It is women that control their own bodies. Both male and female have freedom to have sex. But we tend to condemn women when it comes to sexual transaction.  In Josephine Chuen-juei Ho’s book The Straightforward Women 豪爽女人(           1994,Crown Culture Coporation ) she says that the stronger sex suppression and gender inequality in society leads to the consequence that women can’t show their sexual passion directly.  Taiwan’s common environment of sex culture asks women to be submissive to men’s sexual desire. And people would think that it is not proper when a woman asks for sex actively. Under such a masculine priority concept, a woman uses her body to earn money is not accepted by people.

     And people also say that sex workers engage in sexual transaction would ruin the social morality, and they are against the social ethic. An organization which was found by Margo St. James called COYOTE(Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) that advocates decriminalization of prostitution happens to respond to those people’s saying. Society rules are changing all the time. There are not a fixed standard to tell us what is moral and what is immoral. And prostitution is existed in society actually. Our nonacceptance of prostitution comes from the thinking that we don’t see it as a proper occupation. But  why not? The sex workers don’t steal others money. They use their ability to earn money. Some sex worker even become professional after they experience every sexual transaction. They can control the contexts of their sex works, to avoid their bodies to be hurt when they are working. They know how to use their professional sexual performance to attract consumers, to please them. This way, they produce a way to protect their bodies decision-making powers.

 Like other occupations, prostitution can be professional. It makes woman know how to enjoy themselves when working, and enables them to know the beauty of their bodies. It is nothing to do with the concept of morality or immorality.  

       

     

A survey about whether to establish the red-light districts( Annotation 2)

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The Feasibility of the Establishment of Red-light Districts(revised annotation 1)

This is my revision of annotation 1.
In this revision, I take the people's saying in the video I find for example, and show my oponions about their saying. And I also compare Taiwan's situation with Holland's to find the feasibility of the establishment of red-light districts.



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   Instead of talking about the decriminalizing of prostitution, perhaps I should focus on the policy of the establishment of red-light districts first. In fact, Prostitution had been decriminalized by the government this year. And the establishment of red-light districts becomes a controversy issue. At April in this year, the Premier Den Yih- Wu (2011, the news from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR7J4XxSN6A)said that every city could establish red-light districts in the specific areas. In these areas, sex workers could have sexual transaction without punishment. But it still has some restrictions. For example, the red-light districts could not be established near the schools, churches, temples, hospitals and the places related to education or religion. What’s more, the sex workers have to apply for licenses and register their names to ensure that they have the legality to engage in sexual transition.  They also have to receive regular health examination to avoid the infection of sexual diseases. And they cannot solicit actively. However, if they have sexual transaction out of the areas, they will be punished.  

  In the video(2011, published by Zhong Tian News from the website http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR7J4XxSN6A) I found which is related to the policy, there are a few of lawmakers raise the following doubts to this issue. And I would like to aim at these following doubts to talk about the feasibility of this issue. A lawmaker says that it might lead to the ruin of morality. To this point, I want talk about the experience of Holland first. "Holland is the first country to establish red-light districts. And sex working has been legal since 2000. The sex workers in Holland have to pay tax to the government. It results in the increase of the tax revenue. And lots of tourists come to here to see the true colours of Holland’s special sexual industry. So it also stimulates the development of local sightseeing."(2009, The Liberty Times' digital news, Holland's red-light distrcict, http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2009/new/jun/12/today-so1-3.htm)Therefore, the establishment of red-light districts brings some positive benefits to the country. Most importantly, people in Holland have an open-minded attitude to the establishment of red-light districts.  They regard it as a legitimate industry. And the sex workers gather in this area do reach the goal of the management  of dispersed sex workers successfully. I can’t see the serious ruin of morality occurs in Holland. So perhaps the problem is that Taiwan and Holland are from different culture backgrounds, their acceptability of red-light districts quit different spontaneously. But if we never carry out this policy, we could not judge the degree of negative or positive influence it brings to society. And the concept that it will break the morality in society can be changed as well. All the concepts are variable but not fixed.

  And some people question that how to establish red-light districts? Are there any available spaces to establish red-light districts? To begin with, the choice of the areas to establish red-light districts is important. If the government would like to establish in communities or near the communities, it is necessary to gain the residents’ agreement.  But people in Taiwan tend to disagree with the establishment of red-light districts when it comes to establishing near their community. And under the restriction that the red-light districts could not be established near the schools, churches, temples, hospitals and the places related to education or religion, perhaps there are only mountains or fields could establish red-light districts. What’s more, Taiwan is such a narrow island that burdens the population of high density. Most of the spaces are used to establish buildings, houses, and so on. After all, commercial development is one of the main industry which Taiwan focus on. It’s hard for Taiwan to establish red-light districts in the areas of commercial development. So, no matter the attitude to sexual industry or the conditions to establish red-light districts, Taiwan’s environment could not offer those sex workers a specific space likes Holland to establish red-light districts. And as the modern society develops rapidly, it is getting harder and harder to carry out this policy even though more and more people can receive the establishment of red-light districts. Because the future problem will be that there are not any available and suitable spaces to establish it.    

    

Giving Comments

My comment to Flora's issue paper:

You post two totally different movies. I think the points that they focus on are different as well. I think you introuduce two movies in the some time will confuse the point you want to talk about. Maybe you can just choose one!

To Ruby's:

At first, you say you are against young marriage. And you think your friend must divorce in the end. But latter, you change your thought about young marriage. You think about marriage in a positive way. So what leads to this changing? As you say, financial affairs still exist.This way, would the marriage still keep for a long time?

Is the Establishment of Red-light Districts a Feasible scheme?(annotation 1)

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Should the Government Decriminalize Prostitution through the Establishment of Red-light Districts?(Annotation first draft)

    After I see some videos which are about the issue of the establishment of the red-light districts, I would like to change my topic.Instead of talking about the decriminalizing of prostitution, perhaps I should focus on the policy of the establishment of red-light districts first. Because there are so many complicated problems related to this issue. And I might not take every condition into consideration. Actually, at April in this year, the Premier Den Yih- Wu said that every city could establish red-light districts in the specific areas. In these areas, sex workers could have sexual transaction without punishment. But it still has some restrictions. The red-light districts could not be established near the schools, churches, temples, hospitals and the places related to education or religion. What’s more, the sex workers have to apply for licenses and register their names. They also have to receive regular health examination. And they cannot solicit actively. However, if they have sexual transaction out of the areas, they will be punished.  The establishment of red-light districts is the government’s policy for response to the decriminalization of prostitution. The government says that it is convenient to manage dispersed sex workers by this way.        

When it comes to red-light districts, we cannot neglect the experience of Holland. Holland is the first country to establish red-light districts. And sex working has been legal since 2000. The sex workers in Holland have to pay tax to the government. It will result in the increase of the tax revenue. And lots of tourists come to here want to see the true colours of Holland’s special sexual industry. So it will also stimulate the development of local sightseeing. Therefore, the establishment of red-light districts could also bring positive benefits to the country.  However, there still have many negative effects that we must to pay attention to. The smuggle of women from Southeast Asia or Eastern Europe is a serious problem because that this area is out of the government’s manage.        

Compared with Holland, we must think about the suitability of red-light districts in Taiwan. After all, Taiwan and Holland are from different culture backgrounds. So, what are the opinions of Taiwanese about the establishment of red-light districts? According to a survey made by Apple paper in 2009, there are more than half people could receive this policy. It seems that the establishment is feasible. However, how about the opponents of this policy? They insist on the policy would brings lots of social problems. For example, it might lead to the ruin of morality. They suspect that this will become the indirect encouragement of sexual transaction. And women smuggle might also be a problem in Taiwan. Furthermore, the infection of sex disease should be considered as well.  

The purpose of the establishment red-light districts is for the convenience of the management of sex workers. In those specific areas, the sex workers’ working rights can be protected surely. And under the restrictions made by the government, I think the problems which people are worried about could be controlled properly, even if it still has to be improved as to reach the sex workers and people’s need. In the social cost point of view, the benefits are more than the loss. So the establishment of red-light districts is practical.