{"id":26829,"date":"2014-07-15T08:43:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T13:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26829"},"modified":"2014-07-15T08:43:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T13:43:19","slug":"reason-tv-maggie-mcneill-on-why-we-should-decriminalize-prostitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/07\/15\/reason-tv-maggie-mcneill-on-why-we-should-decriminalize-prostitution\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Reason.tv<\/em> &#8211; Maggie McNeill on Why We Should Decriminalize Prostitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D2fCPvuoHx0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 14 Jul 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a very common form of rhetoric that&#8217;s used against us &#8230; that sex work isn&#8217;t work. That it&#8217;s a dodge. That it&#8217;s a scam. That it&#8217;s a form of exploitation,&#8221; says Maggie McNeill, a former sex worker turned activist who blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maggiencneill.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Honest Courtesan<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We still pretend that there&#8217;s a magical mumbo jumbo taboo energy about sex that makes it different from all other human activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McNeill sat down with <em>Reason TV<\/em>&#8216;s Thaddeus Russell for a wide-ranging interview where she responds to the feminist critique of sex work, explains why research on trafficking may not be reliable, and says why prostitution should be decriminalized.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The problem is that there are already laws for these things,&#8221; states McNeill. &#8220;We have a name for sex being inflicted on a woman against her will. We call it rape. We have a name for taking someone and holding them prisoner somewhere. We call that abduction. &#8230; Why do we need [prostitution] to be laid on top of all these other things that already are crimes?&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 14 Jul 2014 &#8220;There is a very common form of rhetoric that&#8217;s used against us &#8230; that sex work isn&#8217;t work. That it&#8217;s a dodge. That it&#8217;s a scam. That it&#8217;s a form of exploitation,&#8221; says Maggie McNeill, a former sex worker turned activist who blogs at The Honest Courtesan. &#8220;We still pretend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[343,931,98,520,605],"class_list":["post-26829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-liberty","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-moralpanic","tag-police","tag-prostitution","tag-slavery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6YJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26830,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26829\/revisions\/26830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}