Youth and prostitution: the Portuguese case
College educated youth in prostitution is a sign of lack of access to basic necessities - such as education - not a sign of empowerment....
Why won’t the Communist Party and organizations close to it support women’s struggle in Portugal?
The 2019 Feminist Strike wasn't a happy accident or made up of 30 000 rich bourgeois women, to now be dissociated from working women's struggles....
Prostitution vs Abortion: legality and vulnerability
It is not the lack of labor rights that places prostituted women in precariousness and danger, but the lack of civil rights....
Prostitution vs Abortion: choice and body sovereignty
Abortion is about a woman doing something with her own body. Prostitution is about someone else doing something to a woman’s body....
Prostitution vs Abortion: neither a profession nor a crime
The regulation lobby frames the entire discussion as if recognizing prostitution as "sex work" was the only option. That is not the case....
Fallacies of prostitution: consent and choice
Is financially coerced rape less violent because it had "consent"? What "choice" is there in the decision between selling you body or starving?...
Fallacies of prostitution: moralism
Lacking structural analysis, critics of abolitionism accuse the opposition of moralism - even when the opposition includes ex-prostitutes....
Fallacies of prostitution: revisionism and whitewashing
What are the mental gymnastics being used to reformulate the world’s oldest female oppression into “the world’s oldest profession”?...