After extensive research, Amnesty International writes a proposal to decriminalize sex work.

But Hollywood feminists get offended.

Are you even surprised?

They wrote this letter refusing Amnesty’s proposal and suggesting the following alternative:

-Human beings bought and sold in the sex trade, who are mostly women, must not be criminalized in any jurisdiction.

-Pimps, brothel owners and sex buyers should still be criminalized.

And I am sure to a feminist this may sound lovely, but I wonder

Why did they not research the topic before writing about it?

If they had, they would have found out that their progressive suggestion is also known as Merlin Law, effective in Italy since 1958.

The law states that while pimping and owning brothels remains illegal, prostitutes can not face charges for working from their homes or loitering.

Only “unabashedly inviting clients on the street” constitutes an offence.

Because the “concerned individuals” who signed the letter were too “deeply troubled” to waste any time on research, let me do it for them.

How has Italy been doing since the Merlin Law?

Not well.

It got to the point where a list of 100 members of the Italian Parliament, from parties that never agree on anything, agreed that the Merlin Law has to be changed and brothels should be reopened.

Welcome to Italy, where the most frequently asked question is “Mommy, where are that lady’s clothes?”

This is what driving to the beach near Naples looks like today

If legalizing sex work without legalizing the sex industry was meant to protect women’s rights it failed.

Standing on the corner of a street in your underwear and being forced to have sex in a stranger’s car is inhumane. The Merlin Law has been violating these women’s right to dignity for decades.

The current system is unable to verify their age, as well as their physical and mental health. They are forced to work in conditions that prevent them from ensuring their own safety and maintaining anonymity.

Brothels in Italy were never perfect, but as Italian journalist Indro Montanelli wrote “They were the only Italian institution where technique and competence were respected.”

Sex workers were seen as professionals providing a service, and unlike today they were treated as human beings.

Alberto Sordi, iconic Roman actor, describes them as “elegant […] experienced, and with a sense of humour.”

They were part of Italian culture: young men would often lose their virginity to them, and sometimes a brave girl (who now is just another grandmother) would go to the brothel in secret to be taught what to do on her wedding night.

Many clients would go there for more than just sex.

They would drink tea, chat with the girls and even stay for dinner.



To be allowed to work, prostitutes had to see a doctor every week.

They were also required to move to a new brothel (and often to a new city) every two weeks, to avoid romantic involvement with their clients.

Despite this precaution, after brothels became illegal about 20% of prostitutes married their favorite client.

Sex work is just work

This is an experiment.

Can you guess the profession I am describing?

I have a list of services I offer, and a fare for each of them.

I can not be forced to provide a service I do not offer and I can not be forced to work for a lower fare.

I can sign a contract with an agency to find more clients, and I can negotiate the terms of my contract.

My agency can not force me to work for a client I do not want to work for.

My employer and my clients need to be able to verify my age and my identity at all times.

I need to have a taxpayer ID.

If my employer breaks the law I can press charges.

If one of my clients breaks the law I can press charges.



I am a translator, but everything I wrote applies to porn performers.

And it is ridiculous that porn performers have rights that prostitutes do not have.

Prostitution is not human trafficking, and treating it as such is not going to solve anything.

This is what the girls working legally at the Bunny Ranch brothel have to say for themselves

Legalizing sex work allows us to protect both those who choose it and those who are forced into it.

If prostitutes were legally employed in a brothel they would have to provide their employer with a taxpayer ID, and it would be much harder to lie about their age.

This means less victims of statutory rape, and no more ambiguity on whether a client was aware of committing statutory rape.

My post about pornography includes a video in which porn performers explain how the industry works.

As you can see they are very aware of their rights, but in order for those rights to be effective the entire industry needs to be decriminalized, not only the performers.

While the Hollywood feminists are horrified at the idea that pimps may become businessmen, it could be the best way of protecting prostitutes from abuse.

Can we please stop judging johns?

Johns want sex, so do you.

Sex is a human right and it should be enforced as such.

You might be thinking “yes, but I would never pay for a prostitute.”

Do you want a medal?

Not everyone has access to consensual sex without having to pay for it, as it is effectively demonstrated in the following video.

But we already know this, in fact today in the US it is legal to be a sex surrogate.

There is only one problem: you need to be educated to become one.

Our society does not judge johns, as long as the person they pay for sex has some sort of qualification.

We did not judge the adorable main character of the movie “The Sessions”, we liked him.

But not all the clients of a sex surrogate are severely disabled.

Some have mental illness, some have intimacy issues.

Some are tragically ugly.

If they go to the lady with a piece of paper framed on her wall they are “patients,” when they do the same things with someone who could not afford an education they become “johns.”

Who are we to decide when a men has the right to pay for consensual sex and when he does not?

Many sex surrogates defend their activity, saying they educate people about their sexuality for the benefit of their future (or current) partner.

I am sure they do, but so do many prostitutes.

In the first episode of the show “Cat House,” two girls of the Bunny Ranch sit in a circle with a group of costumers teaching them how to please their wives and girlfriends.

It does not take a college degree to understand sex. It takes practice.

So what?

All that matters is that Amnesty International’s proposal is based on extensive research, the letter Hollywood feminists wrote is not.

People are free to think what they want about prostitution.

They can say it is nauseating and indecent, and it should not exist.

Coincidentally that is exactly what I think about fake nails, but I am not going to start a campaign to make them illegal.