Ojibway former child sex worker says striking down prostitution laws does nothing to help Aboriginal

[redqueen]

OTTAWA- Some celebrated Friday after the Supreme Court struck down Canada’s prostitution laws as unconstitutional.

But one Ojibway former child sex worker cried.

And they weren’t tears of joy.

“It feels as a survivor, someone commercially and sexually exploited, that it’s a slap in the face. A big slap in the face,” said Bridget Perrier, 37, a former child sex worker who was first sold to men in Thunder Bay at the age of 12. “We can’t put dollars signs on our bodies.”

The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously agreed the current prostitution laws in Canada are unconstitutional and has given the federal government a year to come up with something better. The current laws will remain in place until then.

Perrier feels the ruling is a step towards giving men the right to further victimize Aboriginal women and girls who, she says, turn to the sex trade when they no longer have hope.

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http://aptn.ca/news/2013/12/20/ojibway-former-child-sex-worker-says-striking-prostitution-laws-nothing-help-aboriginal-women/

It's really sad how the man who wrote this article throws in some pro-prostitution editorializing toward the end of this article.

Notice also the framing in the title "child sex worker"? Really?

Shameless.

[Squinch]

1. "Notice also the framing in the title "child sex worker"? Really?"

You are dead right, but I bet many reading this don't even catch that.

[cinnabonbon]

2. Because obviously

children have the mental capacity to consent to being a sex worker, because they clearly knows what all of that entails.

It is terrible that Aboriginal women and kids have to resort to this. They've been wronged.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. Archie Roach writes about some of this in his songs. Here is One that has made a lasting impression

on me ...

[ismnotwasm]

4. They also won't catch the disenfranchisement

Of the aboriginal person-- historically, economically, spiritually, emotionally- that may reach their very core he very value as a human being; their personhood, their culture.

[BainsBane]

5. Anyone who grew up in an area where johns frequent prostitutes knows it affects children

Both my sister and I were regularly solicited for sex starting at age 10. Even though we never forced to sell our bodies, we lived with the reality of that commerce every time we walked down the street. Three years before I menstruated, I was treated as a sexual commodity. That was the case for every girl who grew up in our neighborhood and other neighborhoods were prostitution occurs.