Violence Against Women: Women Coalition

Violence Against Women Dept: The first operates from a premise that sex for money the business of prostitutes is inherently wrong and exploitive. These arguments cleave to a time immemorial moral disapproval, which is why its proponents, though often calling themselves feminists and by many definitions they indeed are have a great deal more in common with religious organizations and the family values mob, according to The Star. Similar arguments are contained in a factum filed with the Supreme Court of Canada by the Women Coalition, representing seven national, provincial and local women organizations seeking intervener status in an Ontario Court of Appeal decision that has made its way to the country most senior legal authority and will be heard June 6. Their central theme is summarized in the third paragraph: The buying and selling of women bodies in prostitution is a global practice of sexual exploitation and male violence against women that normalizes the subordination of women in a sexualized form. It exploits and compounds the systemic inequality of women based on sex, race, poverty, age, immigration status, disability and Aboriginality. There are dual, completely oppositional feminist perspectives on prostitution. At the most radical end of that spectrum, some might even subscribe to the infamous assertion by the late anarchist Andrea Dworkin that all heterosexual sex is rape and a violation of women bodies. It not really such a big leap from that view of sexual relations to the anti-prostitution legislation adopted by Sweden, which takes the aggressively feminist self-declared position that all sexual commerce the sex trade industry is intrinsically harmful and that selling sex services to men constitutes a form of violence against women. The Swedish model, copied elsewhere, frames prostitution as patriarchal oppression of women, therefore not a free choice that some women choose to make. In Sweden, selling sex is not illegal, but buying it is; only the client can be charged. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.