Dear Editor,
Which politician or Government in Jamaica will be brave enough to push for the legalisation/decriminalisation of prostitution, sometimes referred to as the oldest profession, allowing for the quality of poorer women’s lives to be much improved?
While we focus on the poorer women soliciting their craft on Back Road in Portmore, or those on Ripon Road, in and around New Kingston and elsewhere in Jamaica. There are also many corporate people who practise ‘vagipenile politics’ and economics to get ahead while publicly denouncing the little man or woman who does not have the facility, finesse or the financial wherewithal to acquire upscale apartments or drive the latest SUVs. There are now more and more “good, good” professional women/men entering the trade through the back door, employing new sciences of manology and prostitutology. Some have made a success, others have died or become ill spreading upscale diseases to their original partners and unsuspecting associates all in the name of acquiring a bigger house, apartment, the latest SUVs, getting help with the bills.
I urge the Government and people of Jamaica to take an enlightened and practical view to decriminalise prostitution (for age 18 and over), and cease to have laws like those against “badwud”, that continue to unfairly oppress and persecute the least fortunate among us. Prostitution, if organised, properly could make Jamaica a safer, more prosperous and a healthier place.
Although considered despicable and ungodly in some quarters, moves should be made via decriminalisation to have proper registration of prostitutes, the licensing of brothels, the appropriate taxation measures, facilitate their ability to form or join unions, and be in possession of relevant health/fitness certificates.
At the same time prohibit minors, the enslavement of women for the purposes of sex, outlaw pimping and trafficking of women. Spin-offs would include a better life for prostitutes and their children, a reduction in rape and the spread of STDs among them and their clients and the society at large.
Let’s stop playing hypocrite. When I look at recent incidents involving the police rounding up alleged prostitutes along Back Road, Ripon Road, in Ocho Rios and Montego Bay, it is time for prostitution to become a recognised profession.
Michael Spence
micspen2@hotmail.com
Which politician or Government in Jamaica will be brave enough to push for the legalisation/decriminalisation of prostitution, sometimes referred to as the oldest profession, allowing for the quality of poorer women’s lives to be much improved?
While we focus on the poorer women soliciting their craft on Back Road in Portmore, or those on Ripon Road, in and around New Kingston and elsewhere in Jamaica. There are also many corporate people who practise ‘vagipenile politics’ and economics to get ahead while publicly denouncing the little man or woman who does not have the facility, finesse or the financial wherewithal to acquire upscale apartments or drive the latest SUVs. There are now more and more “good, good” professional women/men entering the trade through the back door, employing new sciences of manology and prostitutology. Some have made a success, others have died or become ill spreading upscale diseases to their original partners and unsuspecting associates all in the name of acquiring a bigger house, apartment, the latest SUVs, getting help with the bills.
I urge the Government and people of Jamaica to take an enlightened and practical view to decriminalise prostitution (for age 18 and over), and cease to have laws like those against “badwud”, that continue to unfairly oppress and persecute the least fortunate among us. Prostitution, if organised, properly could make Jamaica a safer, more prosperous and a healthier place.
Although considered despicable and ungodly in some quarters, moves should be made via decriminalisation to have proper registration of prostitutes, the licensing of brothels, the appropriate taxation measures, facilitate their ability to form or join unions, and be in possession of relevant health/fitness certificates.
At the same time prohibit minors, the enslavement of women for the purposes of sex, outlaw pimping and trafficking of women. Spin-offs would include a better life for prostitutes and their children, a reduction in rape and the spread of STDs among them and their clients and the society at large.
Let’s stop playing hypocrite. When I look at recent incidents involving the police rounding up alleged prostitutes along Back Road, Ripon Road, in Ocho Rios and Montego Bay, it is time for prostitution to become a recognised profession.
Michael Spence
micspen2@hotmail.com