official opinion
http://www.consejo-estado.es/pdf/Anuncios% 20of% 20contenido% 20sexual% 20of% 20the% 20prostitucion % 20prensa.pdf
First of all,
First of all,
Do you know who are the Council State? directory and let yourselves judge whether people who compose it are truly independent and neutral ... and if they are "legal experts" ...
I've missed a few days to give my opinion on the report of the Council of State because I wanted to read it slow so the flood of opinions in newspapers and on television talk shows, as the official report which took a few days to fall into my hands. (Besides, in this blog I have raised repeatedly the issue of banning prostitution ads in the press as a measure to eradicate trafficking in women and sexual exploitation).
I. General considerations: comparative law
II. Prostitution and consideration by the English legislation
III. Prostitution and its assessment by the legal
IV. Advertising of prostitution in print
V. Advertisements for prostitution: the roles of women in advertising and stereotypes.
legal considerations are to be considered are the following:
First:
"sexual service announcements published by the various print media with images and messages that violate the dignity of women whose services they offer, involving a humiliating and degrading treatment, violates the fundamental value of equality women and men, and may promote the transmission of gender roles and stereotypes are contrary to those rights and values, and favoring gender violence, as it conveys the idea of \u200b\u200ba female submissive, subordinate, servile and inferior. "
reading this section one wonders what criteria are based to state so categorically that messages "against the dignity of women." Furthermore, we also know exactly what you mean, fool me, "dignity of women", you should first know the meaning of "dignity of women is not it?. What criteria has to meet a woman to be worthy? Attentive the dignity of women to "mature 120 breast, very affectionate"? based on which criteria for claiming that they infringe the fundamental value of equality? and more importantly what equality, in particular, we are talking about? "girls of 18 to 20 years", "best felatriz" can be interpreted as submission? "come to have a threesome" means servile? "high Morenita and slender. Very twisted. Good french "means inferior? ... Come on ... but if anyone thinks a bit going to make people laugh reading these ads thinking about how stupid men are believing this nonsense. .. if you believe them, because the majority ignores the literal words, but what you hear when you call, is at that moment, as they are told when they call, when they take the final decision "consume".
The statement made in this text is based on the total desconocimimiento dynamics generated in the whole process from reading the announcement until it hires a service is consumed. In general, in the press, the ads have very little of what they are accused.
In internet if you change the thing, myself as a person, as a woman and a prostitute, I am ashamed of most ads that appear, both as written and the photos that accompany them. It is in the Internet directories where I intervene bluntly.
On the other hand, looking at the transmission stations of the roles in the daily lives of everyday attitudes and behaviors are made seemingly innocent, often by women themselves, if they help perpetuate the gender gap and are much most degrading and humiliating. As an example and as we about mother's day, note the increase in television advertising perfumes for women what stereotypes transmitted? And what I say about the appliance stores with posters recalling the offering Mother's Day plates, shopping carts, cutlery, coffee machines, vacuum cleaners, etc? and action taken with the same forcefulness that with prostitution.
More Things Should not talk (and writing) of the "dignity"? Could it be that there is a dignity to men and other "different" (sic) for women, because if it calls for equality between men and women, we must talk about people, but we will not ever close the gap the most fun and how do they know that the services offered involve (categorical statement) humiliating and degrading treatment? Do you have experience in first person?. Reality shows (they only have to want to hear the different testimonies of men, women, transsexuals, transgender) not necessarily sexual practices are degrading and humiliating. And why only women emphasizes bidders and not men (homosexuality) and transgender and transsexual? Do men and transgender people are not practicing in the same conditions than women? As it turns out, engaged in exactly the same conditions homosexual and consumption is not trivial at all, is gender discrimination in people who exercise find it totally discriminatory, uncooperative and not helpful at all to equality between people.
Second:
"promotes the value of women only in terms of its physical, not emotional or intellectual, in continuity with a historical tradition that has muted macho attributes and values of women to focus on purely physical and sexual issues. "
In this regard I think first of all we should reflect on whether it is really a macho tradition that has muted the intellectual attributes ... strictly speaking, what I mean is that if the macho tradition "may" annulling our intellectual capabilities but whose responsibility? Did men or women? Because the transmit macho tradition of women as mothers and as wives and as daughters, and because these values \u200b\u200bphysical and sexual enhancers for women that we are continually investing impressive amounts of money on creams, beauty treatments and cosmetic surgery (increase breast, liposuction, botox etc ..), waxing, fashion salon, diet miracle to have a perfect body (right now, as I write this we are immersed and in Operation Bikini ")... What if these sums of money we invested in cultivating the mind? Women Are not we the first to encourage us by our values \u200b\u200bphysical attractiveness by our intellectual capacity? Why are sold both women's magazines and beauty?
why vase women accept being on TV? Why are we allowing the runway models have the bodies they have? ultimately why women themselves continue playing these roles, they practice ... ? Is no good is said and ask ... are useless if the intentions in everyday life after the practice runs counter ... beside all this in an ad set "lush breasts" falls somewhat sporadic. Assume
and once our responsibility as women, instead of constantly blaming the men when the truth they do not care that we have cellulite or crow's feet or do not have a flat stomach ... I can vouch for it.
Third
"this type of advertising is contrary to the rights of children and youth"
This statement is totally demagogic, it is true that you have to protect the rights of minors, no one doubts it, but it is also true that children and young people what to do first is to teach them to think, and secondly place have to know all the realities. But on the other hand, are equally exposed to violence, social injustice or conduct rejected by the moral imperative to television and movies and other news coming out in the same press - eg corruption of politicians and public institutions, the event page, sports (only male) - and if we teach them to manage all these news, you also have to do with prostitution as a social reality as everyone else.
Finally, speaking from my experience, children are sometimes given us a hundred laps to adults, both in creativity, as in questions ... as cruelty ... not as innocent as it is sometimes pretends from according to areas ...
Fourth
"transmit gender roles and stereotypes perpetuating inequality and subordination"
is repeated, almost, with the first, so my answer is the same. Prostitution is not synonymous subordinate per se even if symbolic-cultural reality, in practice, interact thousand and one type of relationships as in the rest of the other human relationships, and that if there is not, sometimes are women and other men are. People have different natural resources and ways to cope with different situations. From my own experience and what I have observed, in most cases it is the customer who has to submit to conditions that put people into prostitution and is negotiating a pact, which the objectives are different does not mean there is asymmetry (except in the trafficking cases, obviously) and likewise we should not forget the asymmetry occurs in all contexts of human relationships: family, marriage, couples, in the workplace, which reproduce social differences economic, social and cultares. Once again we make prostitution a scapegoat. We are not acting with the same forcefulness
Ah! I almost forgot a shade I wanted to do ... in the pages of newspapers, especially in the sports section where practically only talk about football, Formula 1 and motorcycling (sport mostly male) roles and also transmitted perpetuating stereotypes of inequality and subordination. Except in very, very exceptional does not speak of women's sports ... and return to the same is not acting with the same forcefulness.
Fifth
"ads that offer prostitution can cover phenomena related to human trafficking and exploitation of women and children"
this consideration I have no objection when they say "may conceal (...)", thankfully they do not say" that cover "!. If they are cases of trafficking and exploitation of women, and children and transsexual and transgender people (that's what they say and that is important to note, also enslaves men and transsexuals). What is important to note, is that in cases it can give the ads is irrefutable proof or should be, along with the testimonies of the victims.
Sixth
"can sometimes be covered or at least giving a certificate of naturalization to a criminal activity punishable by our laws, as is pimping" is very difficult to know who the real Advertiser contracted spaces. "
The latter consideration two important things ... Indeed the Penal Code in hand, and literal reading of Article 188 of a second, if given letter of nature to a criminal activity because these items typify offense procuring and pimping, and if that following the announcement of prostitution there are people who are profiting from the activity prostituitoria other (so I began) and whether the Act defines this as crime as a crime, but it is true that is very difficult to know who the real poster. Is known and is very easy to follow the thread.
When I want to place an advertisement, the press would be like La Vanguardia, El País and the Newspaper, I have to give my details and pay VAT in addition to being registered for life in libraries. Are essential to make a radiograph of prostitution. If I were a judge would use print advertising, as irrefutable proof of the crime of procuring and pimping. And, of course, are different cases of independence and autonomy, as in my case today. In contrast, on the Internet if anyone, from total anonymity, you can insert ads do not pay VAT, the computer's IP can be booths and can be deleted without a trace.
When I want to place an advertisement, the press would be like La Vanguardia, El País and the Newspaper, I have to give my details and pay VAT in addition to being registered for life in libraries. Are essential to make a radiograph of prostitution. If I were a judge would use print advertising, as irrefutable proof of the crime of procuring and pimping. And, of course, are different cases of independence and autonomy, as in my case today. In contrast, on the Internet if anyone, from total anonymity, you can insert ads do not pay VAT, the computer's IP can be booths and can be deleted without a trace.
Finally, the demise of the newspaper ads would not end at all or decrease the demand for prostitution since as I said before the Internet has become in recent years at best half-and-return is more in attracting potential customers and is also where the ads are more explicit in both text and Photos, which reproduce stereotypes really harmful to people and, instead, the State Council only deals with internet advertising with a brief text that even remotely approaches the scale of the problems of Internet ads.
"And in relation to the Internet, must be weighed against the usefulness of establishing some kind of restriction, if it is technically possible, since are known to be precisely the youngest the most access to the contents of the network and therefore, can do to prostitution ads that are inserted into it. " ads in newspapers, in some time they will disappear or be only a few, in fact there is already much less than ten years ago and today, much less represent a great percentage in advertising revenue in the press. This measure would have had to make when most of the day Europeans decided to withdraw advertising for relaxation and contacts and has not used the network, but now is another absurd and useless as it will not change the reality today of prostitution in Spain and generate a waste of public resources should be invested to resolve situations that are real problems of social injustice. Is a measure that comes too late.
"And in relation to the Internet, must be weighed against the usefulness of establishing some kind of restriction, if it is technically possible, since are known to be precisely the youngest the most access to the contents of the network and therefore, can do to prostitution ads that are inserted into it. " ads in newspapers, in some time they will disappear or be only a few, in fact there is already much less than ten years ago and today, much less represent a great percentage in advertising revenue in the press. This measure would have had to make when most of the day Europeans decided to withdraw advertising for relaxation and contacts and has not used the network, but now is another absurd and useless as it will not change the reality today of prostitution in Spain and generate a waste of public resources should be invested to resolve situations that are real problems of social injustice. Is a measure that comes too late.
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