Tulsi Gabbard Paves The Way Toward Decriminalization of Sex Work And Gives a Political AND Economic…
By: Ramona De La Torre
Tags: Tulsi Gabbard, Sex Workers, Sex Work, Sex Worker Rights, Feminism

I love Tulsi. 💕🌸 Decriminalizing and regulating prostitution and then legalizing sex Work will make it so that women and genderqueer and men, who choose to be sex Workers, can work and make it easier for The People to further protect human beings/children from being exploited and trafficked through regulation.

Someone complains that it would make Skid Row worse? Well, Decriminalize drug use and treat addiction as the disease it is and bring an end to poverty with a minimum wage and housing guarantee for all Americans, and you will see clean streets free of needles and Skid Row cleaned up once our demands for a guaranteed minimum wage and guaranteed housing and guaranteed universal healthcare for all —as a right — are met.

We all pay for goods and that pays into the system and that means each American, documented or not, has earned his or her or izzes place on the economic ladder and the safety net required to climb since the nature of capitalism is triangular and such an economic system ensures that people fall off the ladder; hence the safety net is a right. That means no destitute and poor and drug addicted and STDS and disease in the streets and no criminalization of addiction flooding our jails with recidivism.

Since sex work happens anyway, The People may as well tax it too. If we can have an immoral president in our white house, we can have sex Workers, with more aptitude for morality than Trump, serve the needs of their clients and their pockets.

Someone argues that no woman chooses to work as a sex worker but is indeed forced to because of circumstance and that it is not actually a choice to do sex work but is forced to for survival? Well, no woman and man and genderqueer chooses to waste his or her or izzes life working three jobs but we have no choice either and we definitely don’t like it /-the working three jobs to make ends meet. Said people would then say that working three jobs does not equal the objectification of women or individuals. Well, is it objectification if he or she or iz has to use their body to make a living? That is perspective. And there is no place for sexist perspective when it comes to people surviving with their bodies. Athletes use their bodies. Is a football player objectified as their bodies are injured for entertainment of the masses watching? Sex workers’ bodies meet a demand. Are their bodies objectified by those using their bodies? Again, perspective. And perspective is flawed and unique to every single individual.

If you legalize prostitution, you will even protect social morals, because legalization means regulation which does a lot more to protect sex workers and to prevent the exploitation of the vulnerable than to stick one’s head in the sand and pretend such things do not exist.

Sex workers use their bodies to work and deserve the same respect we give Union workers. —-oh. Yeah. We give no respect to contracted union workers and that is why we are working three jobs. And we give no respect to the sex workers and that is why illness and disease and exploitation of women and children and men and gender queer occurs and why perpetuation of human trafficking occurs. How about we show some respect to all workers, to all labor, including sex workers, and be thankful that there are all kinds of people performing jobs we wouldn’t otherwise do, because it is what keeps society going. And to deny said respect for our workers —including our sex Workers, is to deny respect for human dignity and life.

This is no small feat for Tulsi. Sex Workers have been marginalized and silenced and ignored for far too long. We can no longer stand by and perpetuate denial of their right to work with criminalization, violating their civil rights and allowing for the violation of their human rights and that of all of society’s.

And now Kamala Harris is, of course, following suit; except that she comes from a hypocritical place of abuse of power in prosecuting the sex worker for purposes of her own political career. Harris’ chiming-in comes too little to late, since she has done enough damage to Sex Workers in contributing to their abuse, stigma, and in contributing to their criminalization perpetuating recidivism. You could argue that Tulsi is doing the same here, except that she is actually doing what we want her to do and that is for her to be a true public servant.

And since Tulsi is brilliant enough to be the first to actually stand up for sex worker rights, sex workers and The Public should follow Tulsi into turning decriminalization into legalization of sex work; demand it gets done along with demanding a minimum wage guarantee and a housing guarantee for every single human being in this nation. This is triage that must be done before we can actually tackle the issues demanding of our attention, like Healthcare for all. We cannot tackle the issues without tackling the immediate needs of society like poverty, hunger, destitution, and unchecked disease. Tulsi and Bernie 2020 and The Poor People’s Campaign. Let’s hope they unite with Union tank and file and rise with The People to bring a Third Party. There is too much to do and too little time and too many fascist candidates to swerve and two fascist parties to obliterate. Let’s triage now to bring it in 2020. I love you, Tulsi. And thank you for being a voice if you read this. 💕🌸❤️