REASONS WHY FULL DECRIMINALISATION WILL NOT WORK

Implementing Full Decriminalisation will have a ripple effect into other areas of our lives. If the sex trade is completely decriminalised and all aspects of selling sex made legal, then we will see brothels (and what comes with it) in our communities, neighbourhoods, cities and throughout the country.

If Government implements Full Decriminalisation of Prostitution, our youth will become easy targets for pimps, brothels keepers and exploiters. They will target the youth to groom and then recruit, coerce or pressure them into the sex industry.

As such, our children will leave school to follow their dreams of making quick money - without realising the consequences (a damaged life and no education to apply for jobs).

Systems of Prostitution exploit vulnerabilities. Instead of helping those who find themselves in vulnerable positions, their vulnerabilities are used against them.

It is because of this level of vulnerability and lack of viable options for survival that some survivors of prostitution have described prostitution as "volunteer slavery”. Others have called it "the choice made by those who have no choice”.

There will be an increase in demand for paid sex, instead of a decrease.

An increase for sexual services, will then require an increase for "products", which mean more vulnerable people and children will be recruited, groomed & pushed into the sex trade. And once they are in, their chances for a "normal life" is almost null.

South Africa will see an increase in the tourism industry, but the tourists will consist of sex addicts, sex tourists, paedophiles and more, coming into SA to look for a “free for all”.

The more tourists, the more brothels will be needed - and these tourists will walk in our malls (where our children are), stay in our accommodation & eat at our restaurants. Will SA then be the called the BROTHEL OF AFRICA?

If sexual exploitation is seen as "sex work", then those caught in the System of Prostitution will be seen as "workers" and not as the "victims" as many of them are.

Instead of seeing them as people needing help, and as such provide the necessary support and EXIT programmes; they are seen as workers that should look after themselves.

As there will be an increase of buyers with Full Decriminalisation, the sexist culture (which promotes commodification and de-valuation of people by turning them into products of servitude to a system built on Gender Inequality) will see an increase.

There will be an increase in cybercrime (the selling of people online using Crypto Currency which cannot be traced; and an increase of Live feeds from South Africa).

There will be an increase in the production of pornography.

Pimps, brothel-keepers, abusers, exploiters and the entire System of Prostitution will have the legal right to exploit vulnerable people.

There will be no accountability for abusing another person.

It will hamper and diminish law enforcement’s ability to detect and investigate Trafficking in Persons (TIP), i will increase Sex Trafficking, which is already difficult to prosecute.

Traffickers will use the legal system to circumvent arrest and prosecution. There will be an increase in the number of parents seeing opportunity to rent/sell their children for fast money from international tourists, brothel-keepers, pimps and local sex buyers

Full Decriminalisation does not make Prostitution safe. Prostituted Persons will still be degraded, humiliated, traumatised and used.

See the MYTHS the Government is using as their reasons for pushing for Full Decriminalisation of Prostitution - Click here

It will have an impact on the communities and the safety of residents and children in the areas where “legal” brothels and/or ‘lolly lounges’ will be established and/or become more embedded.

The drug trade and a wide range of criminal activities will logically follow suit.

All other areas of crime will increase in a country where crime stats are already at a high and where law enforcement and the legal system is failing or unable to cope:

Drug Trade  -  Kidnapping  -  Abductions  -  Trade in firearms and ammunition  -  Home Invasions  -  Smuggling of Migrants  -  GBV  -  Femicide  -  Murder  -  Rape  -  Housebreaking  -  Loitering  -  Vandalism and more...

The normalisation of a sexist culture that promotes commodification and de-valuation of people, mostly marginalised women and girls, who are desperate to survive and provide for their family, by turning them into products of servitude to a system built on Gender Inequality.

It will also enable an environment that promotes and increases Gender Based Violence.