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.
The sexual worker seem to intend not to establish a red-light district. Then, what is you own attitude toward whether to have red-light or not? Are you for it or againt it? Of course, their working right is important; but when making a policy, we need to take other commoner's opinion into close consideration as well. What she say makes us think: they are right. We should do exactly what tehy suggest! But does it really safe? If my neighbor is a sexual worker, I think I may feel uncomfortable. Personally, I still prefer have red-light district. People may argue that they don't want it near their houses, but it can make market take care of itself. I mean people can pay less tax, and the price of buying houses there is lower. Those who want to have this kind of discount and don't care they live in red district can choose to live there.
回覆刪除After reading your annotation, I receive the information that sex workers actually want government to protect their right, so they are agree to place a red-light district in the reasonable conditions. Sex workers are also a job and should not be looked down by people. Sex workers themselves also have conscious that their job should be respected. Government should give them a chance to express their own opinions and their idea about red-light district. After all, they are people who experience this job the most and also people who understand this job and the difficult of this job the most.
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