Självaste FN minsann gjorde en tjock rapport för ett par år sedan " Sex work & the law in Asia & the Pacific.” Där kom man bland annat fram till att det bästa nog vore att avkriminalisera sex-arbete. Vidare att sexköpslagar likt den vi har i Sverige där endast kunden anses kriminell, har liten eller ingen effekt.
Man är också inne på det diskussionen här mest handlar om, nämligen synsättet att alla sex-arbetare per definition är offer, vare sig de begriper det själva eller inte, och pekar på flera negativa direkta konsekvenser för sex-arbetare pga detta:
“Anti-trafficking laws should focus on minors in the sex trade and victims coerced or deceived into prostitution but not voluntary sex workers, the report said.
“Often, sex workers are portrayed as passive victims who need to be saved. Assuming that all workers are trafficked denies the autonomy and [choice] of people who sell sex,” the report said.
Prostitutes “rescued” against their will, often suffer an immediate and devastating loss of income.Their colleagues, also working voluntarily, then often hide from authorities and end up in worse conditions where they are exploited and more vulnerable to HIV infection, the report said, adding that arresting customers is also a failed strategy.
“The UNAIDS Advisory Group on Sex Work has noted that there is no evidence that [anti-prostitution] initiatives reduce sex work or HIV transmission, or improve the quality of life of sex workers,” it said.
The report called “compulsory detention of sex workers, for the purpose of ‘rehabilitation’ or ‘re-education’” a “highly punitive approach” used in China, India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. “In some countries, rehabilitation centers are used as a source of free or cheap labor,” it said.
http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/hivaids/English/HIV-2012-SexWorkAndLaw.pdf