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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[Ma Wang]

Welcome to the working week, whores.

 

[Teghern]

"Sex work is REAL work, bigot!"
"Okay, here are the terms of your employment..."
"NOOO NOT LIKE THAT"

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

SWERFS on suicide watch.

Repellent joking aside this was pretty inevitable to happen somewhere with what a lot of the so called feminist groups were agitating for. Legitimising shit like this also likely means that areas of extreme poverty are likely to see pimps moving in soon and the government reminding people that when looking for work sex work is work and refusing to take employment opportunities offered is a reason to stop your benefits.

The most unpleasant moment will likely come after when one of the legal cases made possible inevitable by the ruling discussing in this article makes the headlines. Because one of these sex workers is going to try to fight her corner and when the courts tell her she failed to fulfil her contractual fucking requirements I suspect the outrage will be audible from space. The social media discourse resulting from it will make the conversation around JK's issues with transgender people seem like sensible and calm conversation.

 

[DumbDude43]

Does Europe actually do jack shit about sex trafficking?

how could they? EU open borders policy (schengen area) means you can drive straight from bratislava to brussels without being stopped or controlled at any of the borders you cross in the process.

 

[Frostnipped Todger]

Waffles and chocolate are pretty good tho.

The Dutch and Swiss can fill the void.

 

[Kirtto]

The National Rapporteur on Human Trafficking and Sexual Violence against Children estimates that between 5,000 and 7,000 people in the Netherlands are victims of human trafficking every year. “Other estimates even say there are between 20,000 and 30,000 victims per year. That’s closer to the actual number,” Hut said, according to Metro.

Belgium is going to become another Netherland, a hub for sex trafficking particularly as pimps will favor illegal ways and organization to carry their business rather than the government

 

[doodoocaca]

how could they? EU open borders policy (schengen area) means you can drive straight from bratislava to brussels without being stopped or controlled at any of the borders you cross in the process.

Fuck this gay earth.

 

[The Wokest]

How the fuck is this a problem?
I've been to some places where hoes rush at you aggressively asking "Hey how about a titty suckin' for cheap!?"
Hoes refusing service so often that legislation is passed? Nah there must be someone in office who is smelly as fuck and can't even get a prostitute.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Welcome to the working week, whores.

Day in the life of a Belgain Whore
Clock in at 8AM.
Get fucked in the ass literally until 8 pm.
Your panic button only has 10 charges like fucking FnaF.

Well. Ain't that peachy.

 

[Rubick]

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

If you love fine dinning the place is far better then France or heck any other European country. Even the food you get at the fuel pump tend to be fucking excellent. Shell there used to have excellent freshly prepared long meatball subs for ridiculously low price.

Waffles and chocolate are pretty good tho.

chocolate is Subpar compared to what you can get in eastern Europe. Waffles are indeed great.

Belgium is going to become another Netherland, a hub for sex trafficking particularly as pimps will favor illegal ways and organization to carry their business rather than the government

It's not going to be. It has been for a long time. Antwerp is well known sex trafficking city.

 

[Thomas Talus]

Pimps Up

Gotta respect the gov't-backed hand.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

Belgium was created by the British to annoy the French

 

[Spiny Rumples]

Your panic button only has 10 charges like fucking FnaF.

10 times within six months

 

[Asian tech support]

The title is a little misleading. I half expected the article to say that the Belgian government was gonna force these hoes at gunpoint to perform whatever gnarly crap they otherwise wouldn't have.
"Bjorka, you've declined anal to ten melanated gentleman in a row. You'll be accompanied by an officer for the next two weeks."

 

[FrancineCansMcGee]

They should just join the military if they don’t want to sell their bodies.

 

[One Quick Post]

"The government will intervene if you refuse sexual acts 10 times within a 6 month period" is exactly the type of dystopian shit to be expected of treating sex work like real work. If you don't do your job you get reprimanded, why would "sex work" be any different? This is the natural end result of legitimizing the exploitation of young women.

 

[FunPosting101]

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

Give the guy his money back, simple as that.

 

[WelperHelper99]

The title is a little misleading. I half expected the article to say that the Belgian government was gonna force these hoes at gunpoint to perform whatever gnarly crap they otherwise wouldn't have.
"Bjorka, you've declined anal to ten melanated gentleman in a row. You'll be accompanied by an officer for the next two weeks."

You know for a fact anal prolapse surgeries are going to rise 800%.

 

[Dr. Hannibal Buress]

The contracts will be disguised as hotel-restaurant-café (HoReCa) contracts so that prostitutes can remain anonymous.

How odd. I thought these whores were proud of their sex worker status, so why hide it?

But in all seriousness, keeping the whore's contracts anonymous seems like a boon to traffickers and pimps, if one girl has an 'accident' they just import another one who looks vaguely similar and say the contract is hers.

At least Nevada makes you get finger printed and background checked to get your 'sheriff's card" saying you can be a whore, stripper, or casino worker.

 

[Snekposter]

How odd. I thought these whores were proud of their sex worker status, so why hide it?

But in all seriousness, keeping the whore's contracts anonymous seems like a boon to traffickers and pimps, if one girl has an 'accident' they just import another one who looks vaguely similar and say the contract is hers.

At least Nevada makes you get finger printed and background checked to get your 'sheriff's card" saying you can be a whore, stripper, or casino worker.

Near as I can tell Nevada regulates that stuff about as strictly as they do gambling. That is to say, they are completely humorless about it and may God have mercy upon you if the state of Nevada catches wind of fuckery.

Yes, the casinos actually are extremely regulated because they're a money printer for the state, and if word gets out about gambling fuckery the state of Nevada is going to lose a ton of tax revenue.