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By: Louisiana Oppresses Sex Workers | The Blog That Needs No Introduction

Louisiana Oppresses Sex Workers | The Blog That Needs No Introduction — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:19:19 +0000

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By: Louisiana Law Forces Many Sex Workers to Register as Sex Offenders — The Curvature

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:30:47 +0000

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By: Melissa Gira Grant

Melissa Gira Grant — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:12:52 +0000

@RS, that’s a really fair point. There can be a big gap between how a law is written, how it is enforced, and how that comes at cross-purpose to how the law may have been intended.

In the case of the SCAN law, the challenge brought by Women With a Vision and CCR is focused on disparate punishment and its consequences. It isn’t a challenge based on the part of the law that concerns prostitution per se. I don’t see the challenge raising the question, “does SCAN encourage or discourage prostitution?” — but asking, “how does criminalizing a class of people in this way violate their constitutional rights?”

I’m not sure we can say the laws discourage or encourage prostitution, but they do have the effect of giving hundreds of people in Louisiana a criminal record, which can make it difficult if not impossible to find work outside the informal economy.

By: Castricv

Castricv — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:16:13 +0000

While I think I have to agree in theory that women who perform sex acts for money should probably not be placed on the same offender list as rapists and pedos, are they not in the end still engaged in sex crimes? Do their actions not serve to debase women further? Are they not contributing to the decline of the communities around them? These same women are causing neighborhoods to become unsafe for children and they perpetuate the “whore” mentaility in men. Perhaps women selling deviant acts in public to anyone who crosses their path including children (my own experience in Metairie, LA) should at least have some deterrant and shame for their actions. Just because someone is disadvantaged does not mean that laws do not apply to them or that they get a free pass. This is the road to perpetual lower classes with no thought of moving up.

By: Reason

Reason — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:53:08 +0000

Seems pretty logical to me that someone convicted of a sex crime (prostitution in this case) would be classified as a sex offender. I don’t see the problem.

By: RS

RS — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:54:25 +0000

Ostensibly the Sex Offender laws were to protect children from predatory adults. Looks like a case of unintended consequences…or “just as planned.”

I don’t understand. Should we discourage prostitution with punitive measures, or encourage prostitution under survival economies so that these women can make a living?

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:17:08 +0000

Now you care. . . now that its women who are getting screwed by this messed up law that was forced down our throats by feminists.

Abolish the registry. It protects no one.

By: Evil Pundit

Evil Pundit — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 04:03:26 +0000

For many many years, men have been forced to register as sex offenders, for the most trivial of reasons. Yet feminists never bothered to complain.

Now black women are getting some of the same treatment, and suddenly it’s a scandal. Welcome to equality, girls!

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