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Why Do Women Discriminalize Prostitution?

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Ignoring the consent of women perpetuates inequality and would seem to be discriminatory. The Department of Social Work, University of Gothenburg, Sweden said that “To unilaterally proclaim someone as an exploited victim or needy belongs to the so-called paternalistic tradition where the experts have power to define the clients.” In this set-up, the society or Government forces help to the women exploited in prostitution as they unilaterally consider them as victims, hence, presents two problems: 1) it denies sex-workers’ rights to autonomy, perpetuates a paternalistic society, and leads to victim blaming; 2) people in sex-work are continually stigmatized.
On the other hand, the non-abolitionist scholars object to the view of the abolitionist

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