Voluntary Adult Sex Workers Cannot Be 'Rescued' Or Detained Against Their Will: Supreme Court In a landmark ruling aiming to mitigate the concerns of the victims of trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation (CSE), the Supreme Court has held that the consent of adult sex workers must be the primary consideration in decisions relating to rehabilitation, reintegration, and placement in protective homes. While adjudicating a miscellaneous plea seeking guidelines and directions to protect the fundamental rights of victims of trafficking for CSE, a bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan, accepting Senior Advocate Ms. Aparna Bhat submission, regarding the preparation of a 'Victim Protection Plan', held that victims cannot be treated as passive objects of rescue and rehabilitation, and that their choices and autonomy must be respected. The Court rejected the paternalistic assumptions under the existing framework i.e., Section 17 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 (ITPA), which often treats all persons rescued from prostitution-related situations in the same manner, irrespective of whether they were trafficked, coerced, or voluntarily engaged in sex work. According to the bench, such a "one-size-fits-all" approach fails to account for the diverse realities of those brought before magistrates. “It is the victim's life, liberty, and future that the order will determine, and thus it would be incongruous to hold that all of this can be decided without any regard for what the victim wants.”, the Court observed. Read more: livelaw.in/amp/supreme-court…

Each time a male leftist is tepidly like “hey sex workers should have rights maybe” the SWERFs sound off immediately with “of course this CUM-BRAINED DEGENERATE wants to keep his PORN!!” I am reminded that non-SWing women perpetuate an equal amount of whorephobia as men

In all my years of being at protests, I’ve never seen use of force successfully disperse crowds. It only causes more mayhem, confusion and injuries.

REMINDER TO SUPPORT SEX WORKERS because governments won’t protect them, banks blacklist them, social media censors them, courts fail them, politicians scapegoat them, police don't prioritize them, even the platforms profiting off them try to abandon them. It's up to us, y'all. ✊🏼

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Me anytime I suffer a slight inconvenience. “I can not live, laugh, love in these conditions”

This is not a drill! We will be hosting a panel at the NOW Conference. The opener: Currently, the National Organization for Women endorses the Nordic Model, a framework that evidence shows increases risks for workers, including violence, exploitation, and barriers to health.

"In Western Pennsylvania, you don’t need a degree in Marxist theory to understand exploitation; working-class analysis is passed down like a family heirloom." I wrote about sex work, class, Pittsburgh grit, & @adrierising's new anthology. pghcitypaper.com/columns/pit…

People love to villainize sex workers, yet they’re out here contributing more to charity than billionaires or politicians do.

RT @EmpressElfiie: It’s such a wild time to be alive because we have mainstream media posting straight up fetish porn on HBO while independ…

I've lost 37 accounts in 12 years in the adult business. That’s a shit ton of income and years of content and communities… Gone. Not because I did anything wrong but because platforms made it harder for people like me to exist or profit online.

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Sex work is the voluntary exchange of a service for capital. Sex work is work. Sex trafficking is not a voluntary exchange. When you conflate these things you do a disservice to both consensual workers and trafficking victims.

“Community organizations serving and supporting sex workers received funds to expand their outreach and support services. WISH Drop-In Centre Society, PACE Society, and RainCity Housing and Support Society are among some of the recipients.” biv.com/biv-rss-linkedin/van…