“Keep your laws off my body”
I love that poster the protesters wear that says: Keep Your Laws Off My Body”. That just says it all, doesn’t it???!! It kinda makes you wonder how all those rad fems can be screaming out against sex work, when the pros who chose the work, and were NOT coerced, are screaming for the very same freedoms that the fems are supposed to represent….?! What the hell…
I used to drive by an abortion clinic under seige, almost every day. It was right on the way to a place I had a job. One day I was driving by with a friend in the car and she yelled at them: “Mind your own twat!!!”
If the rad fems and other supposedly pro-freedom-for-women people can relate to that sentiment in front of an abortion clinic, then why can’t they relate to it in exactly the same way when it comes to the controversy over freedom to sell oneself????????????
How to get rid of the traffickers of children on Village Voice Media-owned Backpage
Eros.com is an international adult services website that has been around for a lot longer than the Village Voice Media-owned adult Backpage site, which also posts adult services ads. Eros.com has a method of identity verification that is an almost ironclad way to keep traffickers of minors from posting. This site requires all posters to scan a photo I.D. of themselves to it, and then to pay for the ad post with a credit card that carries the same name as the photo I.D.
A trafficker of minors would be very hard-put to pull that off. The minors he’s trafficking would have to come up with all that I.D. A credit card in particular would be hard for a minor to produce, and in many cases, the same for a license.
Although some sex workers might be put off by the exposure this method creates, Eros.com will most likely never come under fire by AG’s or anti-trafficking groups, because of its I.D. proofing policy. Therefore, Eros.com is likely to never shut down as Craigslist adult services did, and as Backpage adult services might. Sex workers should consider that, and rally to have Backpage start proofing I.D.’s. Village Voice Media (Backpage) does absolutely no such thing currently.
Having Village Voice Media (Backpage) adopt that proofing policy would be better than switching to Eros, because Eros charges so much more for the ads.
To end the constant attacks of anti-trafficking groups, Village Voice Media (Backpage) should adopt this proofing policy. I have written VVM about this, and have gotten no response.