If they legalized prostitution, not only would it help stop human trafficking by 1. making them stand out, and 2. offering their clientele a consentive means to sexual health, it would also reduce sexual assault crimes.
Sex is a **proven** human need to mental and emotional growth, the European Union and the United Nations back this as a basic human right for all individuals. It is what we are programmed to do in order to pass on our seeds. I would expect many of the guys here to understand that this is the only way many guys can get laid (and a few girls, but mostly guys since we're the ones that must do all the courting in traditional relationships).
In Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Netherlands, they've legalized state funded prostitution in the disability advocacy package to fight the stigma of sexuality and disability. As a matter of fact, my contacts in the disability rights movement have confirmed that sexual rights are going to play a major role on the disability rights agenda.
World leaders met in Hong Kong to draft legislation for international sexual rights. On hand was the sexological research information. An organization was established in the UN called the World Sex Health Association, who recently changed their name to World Association of Sexology:
http://www.worldsexology.org/index.asp Much of this research and information was blocked passage into the mainstream US carriculum by the religious right wing, although neither the liberals nor the conservatives are too high on disability rights. Liberals are advocating for the sexual rights of other groups such as women, gays, but disabled people are excluded because apparently they like much of society hold the disabled to stigma and isolation, and the assumption that disability is justified discrimination.
Other nations that are big on sexual rights of the disabled include various nations in South America, South Africa, and asia. As a matter of fact there is a significant number more nations that are pro sexual rights and pro disability than there are against it.
That is to acknowledge the history of oppression of the disabled, from the eugenics era and even long before that, we've faced systematic exclusion, forced sterilization, institutionalization, even to this day the disabled are the one group that has been scorned, degrated, and humiliated on a societal wide basis and it's generally considered "ok" to hold us to stereotypes or at best treat us like charity cases instead of regular human beings. Pity is an indirect form of discrimination here.
Although I don't see AS as a disability.... But society does, so we're lumped in with the disabled. This would technically make the disabled our cousins.
17 Sep 2007, 7:49 am
Intended in the spirit of good-natured banter, I'm sure.
