Jo Doezema's piece touches upon the imperativeness to rethink the discourse on sex work. The conventional methods about looking at sexwork is through a duality: Women are either forced into sexual labour or they choose to engage in it. The change begins from the Commission for Elimination of Discrimination Against Women's General Recommendations on violence against women. It makes a groundbreaking development wherein it shifts perspectives from looking at prostitution as something needing to be abolished to now looking at prostitutes directly, understanding that they're a vulnerable category. Subsequent declarations, documents and charters now look beyond prostitution as a compelled activity.
Her critique of this method of looking at the impugned activity is nuanced. Her first issue lies with the fact that is lack of a definitional space in which rights of the victims are considered when the victim doesn't fall into the category of a forced worker. Secondly, she laments the skewed nature of prerogatives placed by international organisations, saying that the focus lies more on stopping forced prostitution than sexuring sex workers' rights.
Her critique of this method of looking at the impugned activity is nuanced. Her first issue lies with the fact that is lack of a definitional space in which rights of the victims are considered when the victim doesn't fall into the category of a forced worker. Secondly, she laments the skewed nature of prerogatives placed by international organisations, saying that the focus lies more on stopping forced prostitution than sexuring sex workers' rights.
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