Advocates for sex workers’ rights celebrated a major victory Friday afternoon when California Governor Gavin Newsom announced his intent to sign legislation that would increase protections for people working in the commercial sex trade. Specifically, Senate Bill 233—first introduced in February by Democratic State Senator Scott Weiner—protects sex workers from arrest on prostitution- and drug-related charges if they come forward as victims of abuse or exploitation. It also bans the use of condoms as evidence of sex work, a police practice sex workers have long said compromises their health and safety.
“No one is safer when sex workers are afraid to report crimes and acts of violence. Silence only helps the perpetrators of those crimes,” Newsom said in a press statement on Friday. “This legislation will help ensure serious and violent crimes are reported to law enforcement, and I thank the Legislature for sending it to my desk.”
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Is the “commercial sex trade” legal in California? I thought prostitution was still illegal in the Golden State? My…our society has stooped so low with regards to respect for one another and God!
There is no such thing as a “sex worker” and prostitution is not a “job!’ Weiner and Newsom and all the other immature, liberal- leftist lawmakers, are poorly-educated, poorly-prepared as political leaders, and extremely morally illiterate!
Presbyterian women missionaries worked hard, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, to eradicate prostitue slavery in Chinatown, San Francisco. They rescued the poor girls, rehabilitated them, gave them a Christian religious education, and taught them good job skills. They helped them get into a better life. Can’t Gov. Newsom do this, today??
They never did fully stop it as I am old enough to have known men who took advantage of such women, and how it caused real problems in their own families too, when their daughters, granddaughters and sons found out, and they always do, especially in small towns. Then these same men wondered why their own children disobeyed them or took after them. It never seems to end.
I should have said I knew one man and of others. Some think prostitution is a victomless crime, but nothing could be further from the truth. A whole lot of people are hurt by it. Luckily the woman involved did finally get a job in a grocery store and out of the “business”. Enough said.
what happens to the status of the [usually male] customers of the ‘sex workers’? Are their acts no longer crimes?
I think there should be strong laws, with stiff punishments, against both prostitution– and pornography (which is related to prostitution) and sex films and related materials! How many girls die of horrible diseases, in these kinds of “jobs??” How many children’s lives are destroyed?? Both parties– sellers and buyers– should go to jail! We need to clean up our society! And rescue sex slaves, in human trafficking—and give them help to get into a good new life!!
apart from the immorality of it all,
this is yet another sign that the
wheels are coming off this
fraudulent/huckster economy &
over-reaching/greedy government
MATRIX.
Legalize it and TAX it. The dying gasps
of a morally/financially bankrupt system
grifting for a few more lousy bucks.
Good Luck gov’nah Grievous Nuisance,
have fun while it lasts.
Oh yah, Santa Clara U will probably
name you alum of the year for this one.
Newsome is loathsome.
This post was mine, and the only way he can prove me wrong is to start acting decently and put in decent legislation.
Oh gee. How nice. Now our daughters can earn some money while going to “free” college.
Wake up folks! Making whores of our daughters is what this is all about, and if they do not want to “accommodate”, just bring in the illegals for the sex trade, and if they do not want to accommodate just threaten to send them back. It has been happening all along, including using young boys, but now it will just be “official” , and we can tax it to death.
How low can this state go????? not much.
Correction to last post: How low can this state go? not much more.
As I’ve asked before, what, if anything, would someone have to do to get excommunicated here in California?
Let’s further prostitution and then feign surprise when women and girls are more and more exploited as sex objects.
After they gave “free needles” to drug users, supposedly to keep them from getting diseases, there are now found all over the streets in S.F. and Los Angles. Children can step on them easily and
Wahoo! California at the forefront once again…! Looks like more “pro-woman” according to the Leftists. And, Catholics keep voting for them.
St.Michael the Archangel, defend us in this battle…
one of gavin’s big bankrollers
is Gordon Getty who went to USF
the Jesuits must be really proud of these two
I recall the crazy sheriff in San Francisco who refused to enforce the prostitution laws. The result was hookers hanging out at the entrances of SF’s premier hotels soliciting arriving male guests. So, now Newsom, the man who cheated on his wife by having an affair with the wife of one of his best friends and campaign manager, has decided to let the same thing happen state-wide. Still waiting for at lest one Bishop/Archbishop in this state to speak up.