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Research grounds
Sex workers are women, men and transgender persons who receive money
or goods in exchange for sexual services, consciously engaging themselves in
activities that generate income, even though they may not consider sex work
as their profession.
General population’s attitudes towards sex workers and sex work in general
“Prostitutes are taken by force, I don’t think that a woman would do this job
willingly because it is not easy at all. There are all sorts of men and you have
to pleasure all different tastes. There are sadists, men with different kinds of
fetishes, all sorts of things. I personally wouldn’t allow myself to have that kind
of work for a living, but I’m not here to judge those women and girls who are
often lied to that they are going to get a job and they are taken to entirely
different places. They have hope that life would shed light on them. I would
never like to know what it is like to be in their shoes.”
“Those who want fancy cars, a lot of cash, evenings out, purses, clothes and
what not, have a common name. GOLD DIGGERS. We come across those in
every corner. Now those are the ones I can’t help but give stern looks to, and I
can’t feel sorry for them. I want money too and lots of other things, but I don’t
earn all of that by selling my body to someone with a thick wallet and a fancy
car. Those girls really make me sick.”
References:
http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/vct/sw_toolkit/115solution.pdf
http://forum.femina.mk/threads/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%8
2%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%83%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0.4927/page-7
In the Republic of Macedonia, as well as in many other countries, there is
denunciation of sex work as a profession. The denunciation of sex work
as a service continually occurs among the general population, as well as in
state institutions. Examples of services, besides sex work, include services
and professions aimed at satisfying certain bodily needs, i.e. masseur, yoga
and aerobics instructors. Many individuals do use the previously mentioned
services and professions to attend to their body needs. The use of services that
satisfy bodily needs are not forbidden, therefore, why is sex work forbidden?
A synonym used by the general population for a sex worker is a “professional”.
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