Law Belgian Government Will Intervene In Cases Where Prostitutes Refuse Sexual Acts Too Often - Based?

https://www.thepublica.com/belgian-government-will-intervene-in-cases-where-prostitutes-refuse-sexual-acts-too-often/

https://archive.ph/GgaCb

Amy Hamm​

May 12, 2024



A new law in Belgium celebrated by activists for providing a “labour contract” to prostitutes will also enable their pimps to punish them with a government mediator if they refuse sex more than 10 times in a six-month period. The Belgian Parliament voted for the law on May 3, with 93 in favor, zero opposed, and 33 abstentions.

The legislation is being touted as a win by UTSOPI, the Belgium Union of Sex Workers, which had lobbied extensively for the legislation. The law outlines that prostitutes will receive health insurance, a pension, maternity and holiday leave, and unemployment benefits. Their pimps will be forced to provide them with a “safety button” to use for emergencies.

Their website claims that the law “is a historic step in the battle for sex workers’ rights” and will create a “respectful, fair relationship” between prostitutes and their pimps, with UTSOPI spokesperson Daan Bauwens telling media that he believes “Belgium is really demonstrating that it aims to protect sex workers, regardless of any moral judgements about the profession people may have.”

Prostitutes are to be granted “rights” to refuse sexual acts, stop sexual acts, perform sexual acts in the manner they prefer, and refuse to sit behind Amsterdam-style windows (public facing windows where prostitutes are on display). However, should a prostitute use these “rights” 10 times within six months, their pimp can then call on a government mediator to intervene.

All pimps must have a registered office and apply to the Belgian government for approval to offer contracts to prostitutes. The contracts will be disguised as hotel-restaurant-café (HoReCa) contracts so that prostitutes can remain anonymous.

Andrea Heinz, a prostitution abolition advocate, called out the new legislation on X (formerly Twitter).

“There is little chance this will (actually) favour women. Under legalization/full decrim, pimps become ‘managers’ with the backing of the state to further entrench and maintain their power. Pimps see women they sell as products, not people deserving of full dignity & respect.”

https://twitter.com/heinzsight2020/status/1788400489027305614

Outside the realm of so-called “sex work” activism, social media users have expressed horror at the new law.

“So the [government] helps pimps to coerce sex, what a disgusting idea,” posted X user @Bob16747466.

https://twitter.com/Bob16747466/status/1788436231019216897

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[Otterly]

Nuke Belgium. Nothing good has come out of Belgium since Poirot.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Nuke Belgium. Nothing good has come out of Belgium since Poirot.

Let me get a truckload of their beer out before the nuke lands.

 

[Joe Swanson]

https://twitter.com/heinzsight2020/status/1788400489027305614

If you want respect maybe don't reduce yourself to a sexual object that can be sold for money

 

[Vlinny-kun]

All this regulation is going to do is keep whores away from selling their pussy unless it's for a pimp that doesn't have a loicence to run his whorehouse. Most of them are only doing it because of "fuck you dad" mentality and bringing the government in will just ruin the flavor of being a prostitute.

 

[Meat Target]

Unions actually pushing for their workers to actually do their jobs? What is this, opposite day?

 

[Otterly]

Most of them are only doing it because of "fuck you dad

Legalisation tends to make things worse, as demand then outstrips supply, and means that fresh meat is needed often. The vast majority of prostitutes arent happy hookers, they’re there due to drug or booze issues, shitty life choices, or they’re trafficked in from Eastern Europe and beyond.
Nuke Belgium, and then nuke the ‘sex industry.’ I know we will never be rid of it, but it shouldn’t be tolerated at all.
The uk briefly had a tolerance zone in Leeds and it was an absolute disaster. It’s still a disaster, even after it was officially stopped becasue surprisingly organised and petty crime doesn’t vanish when the council tells it the licence is revoked

 

[doodoocaca]

...they’re trafficked in from Eastern Europe and beyond.

Does Europe actually do jack shit about sex trafficking?

 

[indigoisviolet]

Let's not call them anything, let's just ignore them... (crowd applauding)...

I'm sure this new Pimp Mandate has nothing to do with Brussels being the rotten heart of the European Union, fucking hell.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Nuke Belgium. Nothing good has come out of Belgium since Poirot.

I disagree. Belgium is a fake nation whose entire existence is justified only because of British fuckery on the continent.

Give the walloon area to France, the flemish area to The Netherlands and the extreme east of it can be returned to Luxembourg and we shall rid Europe of this artificial state without a single shot.

 

[The Punished Mitch]

Expecting women to adhere to contractual obligations is genocide.

 

[Crypto Six Gorillionaire]

Wasn't there a news story out of Germany, something along the lines of telling women that they weren't eligible for benefits if they hadn't pursued prostitution first?

Expecting women to adhere to contractual obligations is genocide.

Maybe the clients they're trying to avoid don't follow obligations either (like not being stabby rape apes)

 

[I Shidded I Farded I Came]

The Belgian Parliament voted for the law on May 3, with 93 in favor, zero opposed, and 33 abstentions.

Pictured: the Belgian parliament.

 

[DJ Grelle]

I gave the actual law a quick scan and it's more of a "being a whore is just another form of work, so this includes Belgian OSHA".

That's it. If a whore refuses ten times, she can ask Belgian OSHA to come and inspect the situation. See page 30 in the pdf (art7§3). (If you can read french or dutch)

Belgian parliament page for this law.

 

[Yeeted Teet]

Most of them are only doing it because of "fuck you dad" mentality and bringing the government in will just ruin the flavor of being a prostitute.

Most of them are trafficked or otherwise forced into it. The idea that pretty young women who are escorting to pay for college make up the majority of women in the sex trade is exactly what the people pushing this on society want you to think. The reality is that there are some women like that, enough to trot out for interviews and photo-ops whenever this debate comes up in the media, but nowhere near enough to meet demand. The shortfall is made up by drug addicts and the homeless, young girls from state care who are groomed and pimped out by their older boyfriends, and most of all impoverished women from second and third world countries who are effectively slaves to the trafficking gangs who brought them here.

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

"Prostitutes are not allowed to resist ugly EU-politicians" is the more accurate read.

 

[WonderWino]

There is no way this is going to end well for anyone involved. Even for belgium this is retarded

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

If a whore refuses ten times, she can ask Belgian OSHA to come and inspect the situation.

So what's the solution to this guy is too ugly/has STDs/dick too big? OSHA can't do much about that

 

[millais]

I disagree. Belgium is a fake nation whose entire existence is justified only because of British fuckery on the continent.

Give the walloon area to France, the flemish area to The Netherlands and the extreme east of it can be returned to Luxembourg and we shall rid Europe of this artificial state without a single shot.

And nuke Brussels, to cleanse it of its Moroccan and Eurocrat filth

 

[Gremperor]

Nuke Belgium. Nothing good has come out of Belgium since Poirot.

Waffles and chocolate are pretty good tho.