Scottish Govt consultation on banning buying sex (30)

Well said, do we really need to be returning to the dark ages!!!!!!!

Well these were the sort of questions we asked about the banning of 'extreme porn' (which was then made illegal to possess), what with that and some SM still being an imprisonable offence for both top or bottom, involvement in BDSM being a sackable offense, adult establishments being outed and hounded out, and buying sex being already illegal in most of UK, and so on...

a lot of us are past the stage of thinking that just because another discriminatory piece of legislation or rules (against people engaging in harmless adult intimacy) is batshit crazy it won't pass.

Hence the existence of entities like Backlash, Spanner Trust, English Collection of Prostitutes, International Union of Sex Workers, Consenting Adult Action Network and so on.

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Edited 17 Feb 11, 10:47 AM by Degenerate

It's only batshit crazy if someone says so.

First thing to be warned about is that this was proposed as an amendment, and the Justice Committee said pretty much, "There's too many responses here for this to be an amendment, so let's do a proper consultation."

In other words, the only reason it didn't get passed was because so many people spoke out about it, especially against it.

This consultation is exactly that, a consultation. However, if only people who are in favour of the proposal comment on it, then the consultation appears to be in favour of the legislation, thus justifying further action from the crazy douchebag politician.

After that, we have to rely on other politicians to be the ones to call BS. While the Scottish Parliament does have the fantastically outspoken Margo MacDonald (and probably Patrick Harvie) who is likely to criticise any legislation coming out of this, MSPs tend to offer alternatives rather than try to rally opposition. The effect this has is to split the support, sometimes. Other times it gives fence-sitters a midway option. But in a lot of these instances, there is no midway option -- all are bad.

I'm afraid that silence is consent when it comes to matters like these.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

A response has been sent. It's a fairly long one, with the references listed above. And I've attempted to forward the info onto other people who may or may not have heard of the consultation. One wrote back to say she submitted a response, which is great. Every little bit helps. When you consider that every single individual member of the groups who want this law passed is sending in a one-page poorly written response about poor women victim prostitutes, we're up against a shit storm, cause they only count heads.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

The "Analysis" can be found here: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/bills/Membe...

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

I'm a bad, bad boy, and I'm going to steal your love.
b-b-b-b-bad to the bone! I make a rich woman beg, and a poor woman steal, An old woman blush, and a young girl squeal!

Please note just my opinion.

OK, now that's out the way lets be blunt, its biased and its clear who wrote this is anti-prostitution and the mention of the near 6000 people who signed the End Prostitution Now (6,000 out of 5,000,000 Scottish people) and this 'woman' brushing off all anti-Her Bill as worrying over nothing.

However everyone's point is there so that is some redeeming feature. An accusation that by making this law they could be discriminating against the disabled and the loss of tax revenue as all Scottish prostitutes go on the dole show that she's not completely afraid of giving both sides.

If one person reads either of these and agrees with these points as reason to shout down the law then the MSPs may question her motivation.

This is more dangerous; 30-40 Labour MSPs that means a quarter of the Parliament have backed her, possibly without reading the whole document and asking why because she's Labour. However, if this is a Labour idea, why haven't the other 6-16 Labour MSPs backed it?

Edited 18 Mar 11, 10:05 PM by Pheonix_Ian

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actually they are talking about changing the laws in Holland and Belgium, I have just come back from a trip there and people are really annoyed by their backwards thinking government.