Prostitution Law and Violence Against Women

violence against women: Sex workers commemorate December 6 too -- to mourn their colleagues brutally cut down by serial killers, or assaulted and raped by police, or beaten by predators posing as clients. This happens not because prostitution itself is "inherently violent" it not , but because criminal laws kill women , according to Rabble. As Swedish sex worker and activist Pye Jacobson points out , the Swedish state facilitates and endorses violence against sex workers on the premise that it will motivate them to quit. Sweden 2010 evaluation of its law prohibiting the purchase but not the sale of sex lacks credible evidence of any positive effect of the ban, except for one: the "intensified social stigma of selling sex" and other "negative effects of the ban that sex workers describe must be viewed as positive from the perspective that the purpose of the law is indeed to combat prostitution" Section 4.6.4 . It appears that the Swedish government doesn't care that "whore stigma" kills sex workers and In an act of " sick and twisted " irony, Canada new prostitution law takes effect on December 6, the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre and a day now set aside to mourn violence against women. Sadly, the law will lead to violence against sex workers, most of whom are women. Laws against sex work stigmatize sex workers, push them away from safe areas and support services, make them afraid of the police who are often the worst perpetrators of violence , and put them in danger. This is the case regardless if the workers themselves are supposedly "decriminalized" such as in Sweden, where sex workers are still targeted and punished under procuring and immigration laws, and effectively denied social services unless they "exit" prostitution. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.