Against prostitution (not against prostitutes)

For the first time, it seems we're getting some good news from the Minister of Feminism: that the Catalan government is working to abolish prostitution. These are intentions, of course, and we'll see what happens, but it's already much more than what we've had in Catalonia in recent years: regulationist policies that want to present the so-called oldest profession in the world as just another career opportunity, a job like any other. Ada Colau made things easier for pimps by adopting this position and selling it as open and inclusive. It may seem to ordinary people that this issue doesn't concern them, that those of us who don't know this world have nothing to say, but the existence of sexual exploitation networks and the impunity with which they operate represent one of the greatest shames we live with while we pay lip service to equality and human rights. Can we boast of social sensitivity while there are people being bought and sold, rented by the hour, and subjected to degrading and humiliating practices? The PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) has long since committed to advancing abolitionism, as feminist organizations have demanded, but things are moving slowly because, as Ana Redondo said, touching on the topic of prostitution always generates controversy. The politicians who put the brakes on these much-needed advances in equality will explain why they show such solidarity with pimps. It's clear that the corruption cases that have been uncovered recently, where there is no shortage of "ladies" demonstrate that resistance to ending this ignominy must come from within the party itself. In any case, Councilor Eva Menor's initiative is welcome, and we hope that those resisting it will consider the conditions in which prostitutes live, not their ideological principles, and that they will not use this issue to establish a partisan profile. There are many manipulated ideas on the subject, and that abolitionism is not a persecution of women who practice prostitution, nor does it have the intention of stigmatizing them and plunging them further into misery. This is the intimate sphere of atavistic male domination exercised through economic power. The fact that cleaning toilets is just as degrading as accepting multiple penetrations in exchange for money. With prostitution, it does not punish the exploited and should provide support and assistance measures for them and their reparation. If there is a single woman who can be sold as an object, we cannot say that we are an egalitarian society.