Following the publication of the article "What the customer? "Alternative libertarian in
March, we publish here an alternative viewpoint on the issue, AL with no fixed position
for the moment on this topic. ---- We are abolitionists and we do not believe that
government intervention in any form whatsoever, can make a step forward this struggle
almost invisible. The reality of prostitution is very little known in its entirety and for
good reason, it is of great complexity. ---- If trafficking is the most visible face and
most deadly, prostitution in all its forms is generating violence. However, we do not
expect to make the full weight of the clients whose social morphology covers a multiple
reality. It does not seem possible that the abolition of prostitution can pass through
coercion, but rather by the questioning of the patriarchal system, which can be done by
the database.
You can not change society by bourgeois justice
We analyze the legislative and judicial apparatus as a tool of repression and domination
of the ruling class against the exploited class-es. As libertarian communists, we also
oppose any repressive measures, any manifestation of authority and arbitrary. For this
reason and whatever struggle or purpose, we can not support any proof safe from the state.
It does not cure evil with evil ...
In addition, security solutions have not proven that to protect the interests of the
bourgeoisie. Repression of customers does not seem to deviate from this rule. Already in
1917, Emma Goldman, denounced the state, starting a crusade against prostitution,
prostitutes pr?carisait advantage and promoted the development of procurement. [1] We
question the real value that can be punishing clients. Is that it may actually deter
customers? Is this a way to achieve the abolition of prostitution? We think not. We do not
see how a fine or imprisonment may lead a client to challenge the patriarchal system in
which prostitution is an "outgrowth even caricature" [2].
Only the struggle against patriarchal society can lead to such awareness.
But the state apparatus - both legislative and judicial - has no vocation to lead this
fight but perpetuates inequalities of class and gender. If we look at the effects of
anti-pimping, one realizes that the punishment of pimps drove prostitutes to meet up with
the threat of state and their pimps. They also often find themselves accused of pimping
for fear of accusing their pimps. Justice is an instrument of class society which condemns
those who gather faced by their social origin. Punishment is obviously not the same for
everyone and a safe applied to clients of prostitution once again lead to the conviction
of the poorest. On reading the report of the parliamentary information mission on
prostitution, released in 2011 [3], we realize that security laws to prostitution tend
more to become a tool in the fight against illegal immigration, so dear to the State in
time of crisis. It is therefore unthinkable for us to support the repressive state
apparatus in order to fight against the patriarchal system.
Being abolitionist does not moralistic
Present as the criminalization of the client solution is to ignore the systems of
domination in which prostitution fits: patriarchy and capitalism. There is a difference
between saying "prostitution is bad" and "prostitution is a social evil." In the first
case, the prostitute and client-es-es are judged morally, and as a result, the customer,
they are both likely to be punished. In the second, we seek in the functioning of society,
what are the causes and factors that lead people into prostitution, and those who favor
the application. Thus, while for women, it will be more bearable to sell as a sexual
object, than to be agent of production, the system of prostitution will not disappear. The
customer's place in the system of prostitution makes it a link, it can not be the source.
Otherwise, this is a moral reform that we would expect, by focusing on the elimination of
a primitive instinct of the man who would drive the consumption of sexual services. Such
laws are based and convey a moral aspects Puritans lined misplaced humanism, they actually
participate in maintaining the system.
Necessarily impact
The law does not say prostitutes. But its purpose, at least announced, is to reduce the
number of prostitutes. It seems difficult not to accept it affects those involved. Ignore
these consequences is to accept them, or they can increase the vulnerability of
prostitutes. In fact, the customer is the main source of income workers and sex workers,
the latter will have no other choice if they wish to continue their activity, to adapt
even to endanger: distance of the places where the police are too present, therefore
greater exposure to violence increases the need for an intermediary, then work for pimps,
installation or aggravation of competition and continuous change of workplace, thus
greater difficulty in creating places collective health, protection or control ...
If this law is not "directly" prostitutes, it is not accompanied by any real measure to
ensure their safety and / or exit prostitution.
Such consequences, in addition to endangering and worsen the living conditions of
prostitutes are as a real obstacle to the possibility of collective struggle, and thus as
real barrier to the possibility of emancipation through them prostitutes themselves. After
all, is not that the best guarantee of a real emancipation, it is put in place and
supported by the oppressed?
Flo and Marine (AL Montpellier)
[1] Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Others Essays - the white slave trade and prostitution in
America, 1917
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/spip.php?article4893#nh1
[2] Brigitte Raskin, "Prostitution and patriarchal society", in, Deviance and Society,
1986 - Vol. 10 - No. 3. pp. 289-291.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/spip.php?article4893#nh2
[3] Report of parliamentary information mission on prostitution, No. 3334, April 13, 2011
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/spip.php?article4893#nh3
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