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.