DENOUNCING THE ACTIONS OF THE LOBBY FOR THE LIBERALIZATION OF PROSTITUTION IN EU

By: ECLJ

Photo: A.L.L.C.

At a time when pornography is flooding the internet, when sex is invading people’s minds and society to the point that the sex trade is becoming a huge industry, the time has come to liberalize prostitution, as powerful “progressive” lobbies are advocating.

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the European Center for Law and Justice (ECLJ) is publishing a new report denouncing the actions of the lobby for the liberalization of prostitution in Europe. This report is the continuation of our actions for Women’s dignity.

If the powerful “progressive” lobby is to be believed, the legalization of prostitution is the new horizon of human rights, the new right for women to conquer. After the legalization of abortion, transsexualism, surrogacy and euthanasia, it is now the turn of prostitution to be elevated to the status of a fundamental right in the name of the sacrosanct right to control one’s own body. This right knows no limits and the logic of the progress of human rights is implacable. To achieve this goal, the prostitution liberalization lobby prioritizes the use of supranational bodies to impose on States the idea that “sex work is work like any other”.

Is liberalizing prostitution a good thing, as its advocates claim? On the contrary, it tends to encourage its uberization. It is no coincidence that the supply and demand for prostitution are much higher in liberal countries than in those promoting abolitionist policies. In 2016, the proportion of the population involved in prostitution was 36 times higher in Germany than in Sweden, where the demand for prostitution also fell from 13.6% to 7.9% between 1995 and 2008.