Leave them alone you are not their parents

I sincerely hope these girls win their case. I am a lifelong supporter of women’s rights, but this woman Sasha Rakoff is not furthering these rights, she is trying to curtail them. The rights of women to freely choose whether to work in the sex industry or not is the issue here, and it is condescending and impertinent for her, or anyone else to tell them that they shouldn’t, because they’re really being exploited and just don’t realise it! I agree that it is an irony that a movement which was started because women had no voice or freedom of choice, and needed to be heard and not dictated to by men, is now allying itself with its diametric opposite, those on the extreme religious right who believe than women’s place is in the kitchen and bedroom, where women’s sexuality can be hidden from all but their husbands. Freedom of choice to do what we please with our bodies, even sell them for money..is a human right, and we all know that prostitution will never go out of fashion, no matter how societies have tried to proscribe it, it persists because it is part of the human condition. It is a case of supply and demand, a commercial transaction, and they say..”the oldest profession”. What these feminist campaigners should be doing is concentrating their efforts on making the sex industry safer for women, by calling for mandatory health checks, de-criminalising prostitution, going after the pimps and traffickers, looking out for underage exploitation of girls and many other connected issues. What they should not be doing is interfering with the rights of women who have chosen, for whatever reason, to work in this industry.