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24/11/2008
Prostitution Thrives in Singapore
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11:27 Posted by soci | Permalink | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0) | Email this | Tags: singapore, prostitution, trafficking
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you must look at this positively: people have the freedom to buy sex, and enterprising girls (I guess boys too) have additional economic opportunities, provided they are not exploited by unscrupulous pimps and human smugglers, which means the government must keep an eye on things and maintain good order; isnt this how a well functioning system should work?
Posted by: yuen | 24/11/2008
but they are "exploited by unscrupulous pimps and human smugglers". so the deal is not as enterprising or emancipating as you make out. It is the opposite.
Posted by: soci | 25/11/2008
so we must have more government intervention and control; why dont some civic minded citizens (I am a foreigner) organize and lobby on this issue?
of course, residents of Joo Chiap have been up in arms, but only to remove the activities from their neighbourhood
Posted by: yuen | 25/11/2008
so the government must be more active in monitoring and controlling; why dont some civic minded citizens (I am a foreigner) organize and lobby on this issue?
the Joo Chiat residents have been up in arms, but only to get the activities out of their neighbourhood
Posted by: yuen | 25/11/2008
I'm all for the legalisation of prostitution, and having the sex workers self-organise into professional institutions, like the sex workers in Australia.
There is no reason to criminalise prostitution. If it is not a criminal act, then proper institutions to regulate, educate and guide professional standards can evolve.
The issue here is the cruel treatment of the workers by the pimps and gangsters — not the act of selling sex — which if done voluntarily is no problem. When commercial sex becomes a legal business, pimps and gangsters will still be pimps and gangsters, but they'll have to "modify" their behaviour, primarily in the way they "communicate" with their employees.
Posted by: Matilah_Singapura | 26/11/2008
and this can be done in the same way as the IRs: the government sets aside plosts of land specially for a red light district and invite foreign companies with a track record to bid for a license to operate it; pimps and human smugglers will become investors and employees, and annual quotas for importing foreign prostitutes will be allocated like COEs...
Posted by: yuen | 26/11/2008