https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/25/punish-the-men-who-pay-for-sex-rather-than-the-women-lured-into-that-life
Too often, these women are effectively written off. An example came just last week in BBC reporting of the trial for the alleged murder of mother Samantha Holden, whom her family described as a “kind and beautiful soul who will be forever loved”. She was found by her 18-year-old son strangled and suffocated to death. That wasn’t how the BBC framed her death: “murdered sex worker found dead by son, court hears”, its headline read for hours before it was changed in the face of righteous anger. This plays into two damaging social mores. The first is the age-old assumption that women who take payment for sex – who are overwhelmingly coerced or trafficked into this rotten “industry” – are somehow less deserving than other victims of male violence. The second is the newer idea that governments should turn a blind eye to this commercial sexual exploitation because “sex work is work” and the state should let it take place rather than clamping down on men who buy sex. Both are pernicious in undermining the protection of women from violent men.
Women being killed is a feature, not a bug, of prostitution.
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