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The Global Commission on HIV and the Law report calls prostitution,
“consensual sex work” and along with a recommendation to decriminalize the
voluntary use of illegal drugs (as opposed to decriminalizing the involuntary
use of illegal drugs we supose), makes the recommendation as a means to combat
the spread of AIDS around the world.
The report also recommends that “consensual sex work” be acknowledged as a
legitimate profession so that it can be regulated “in a way that protects
workers and customers.”
Leave it to the United Nations to combat the spread of disease by encouraging
and legitimizing the very behavior that leads people to contract disease.
If you're shocked, don't be. Dr. Janice Crouse with Concerned Women for America
affirms that proposals to decriminalize prostitution worldwide are nothing new.
“They like to legitimize the whole industry that way so that it can be regulated
and so that it can be considered a ‘legitimate option’ for women and give it
more respectability. But, the sad fact is in every instance where prostitution
has been legalized, illegal prostitution has flourished."
And who will reap the benefits from the legalization of prostitution?
Crouse
again: "The pimps all want prostitution legalized; they like that. The sex
traffickers want it legalized because they gain far more traction with their own
illegal activities anytime that is the case - it’s happened in Germany, it
happened in Amsterdam, it’s been shown over and over again.”
Studies, such as this report by the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, are
typically the first step in a process that will culminate in a move for all UN
member nations to ratify or endorse the recommendations contained in the study.
The study, by the way, was funded with your tax dollars, as well as monies from
Canada, Norway, Australia and the Open Society Foundations, a George Soros
funded organization.
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