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Tara Hurley
Providence, RI
I just finished a documentary "Happy Endings?" on the Asian massage parlors in RI where prostitution is legal.
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Tara commented on the article |You are right about one thing, there is a ton of bashing going back and forth. What is really sad, the only people who will be effected by this law will be the women. I have been attacked by both sides, more threats and demonizing by the pro-legislation side, because I pushed for the Swedish version of the law. That seemed to me to be an ok compromise.
I saw how crazy things are when people (Donna Hughes) who claim to want to help women will only fight for laws that put them in prison, and bash any woman who is against that. I have been called a prostitute by DH, among other things, and I can assure you I am not, I am just one woman who wanted to find out what was going on in the spas I drive by everyday.
What is really sad is when the Senate came up with a bill that did not have prison time for the women, Hughes started a compaign against them. I really thing the Senate changed their idea on punishment when they saw some of the women from the spas testify. These women do not deserve prison, they deserve compassion.
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Tara commented on the article |We need to focus on Harm Reduction! You are ignoring reality if you think telling kids not to have sex will work.
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Tara commented on the article |What we really need is a plan for the victims. We need to treat the victims as victims and not criminals. Just recently in Providence a 16 year old was sent to the training school after being found beaten and incoherent outside a strip club.
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Tara commented on the article |Check out my documentary where I followed RI's legal prostitution. http://happyendingsdoc.wordpress.com/
What the problem with illegal prostitution is what has been discussed here, women arrested and not offered help to get off drugs. Drugs and poverty are the true pimps.
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