{"id":12829,"date":"2024-02-05T20:22:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T20:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12829"},"modified":"2024-02-05T20:22:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T20:22:19","slug":"maines-bad-prostitution-law-could-be-coming-soon-to-your-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12829","title":{"rendered":"Maine&#8217;s Bad Prostitution Law Could Be Coming Soon to Your State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;In 2023, Maine became the first U.S. state&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/06\/08\/maines-legislature-passes-bill-to-partially-decriminalize-prostitution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to partially decriminalize prostitution<\/a>. It&#8217;s unlikely to be the last. And sex-worker rights activists are concerned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By criminalizing prostitution customers but not sex workers, Maine&#8217;s law may&nbsp;<em>seem<\/em>&nbsp;like a step in the right direction. But it threatens to derail momentum for&nbsp;<em>full<\/em>&nbsp;decriminalization, while recreating many of full prohibition&#8217;s harms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also represents a paternalistic philosophical premise: that sex workers are all victims and their consent to sexual activity is\u2014like a minor&#8217;s\u2014irrelevant. And this premise is used to justify all sorts of bad programs and policies, including drastically ramping up penalties for people who pay for sex.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"BkdktBywkH\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/01\/03\/maines-bad-prostitution-law-could-be-coming-soon-to-your-state\/\">Maine&#8217;s Bad Prostitution Law Could Be Coming Soon to Your State<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Maine&#039;s Bad Prostitution Law Could Be Coming Soon to Your State&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/01\/03\/maines-bad-prostitution-law-could-be-coming-soon-to-your-state\/embed\/#?secret=tI8MnQWQYP#?secret=BkdktBywkH\" data-secret=\"BkdktBywkH\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In 2023, Maine became the first U.S. state to partially decriminalize prostitution. It&#8217;s unlikely to be the last. And sex-worker rights activists are concerned.<br \/>\nBy criminalizing prostitution customers but not sex workers, Maine&#8217;s law may seem like a step in the right direction. But it threatens to derail momentum for full decriminalization, while recreating many of full prohibition&#8217;s harms.<\/p>\n<p>It also represents a paternalistic philosophical premise: that sex workers are all victims and their consent to sexual activity is\u2014like a minor&#8217;s\u2014irrelevant. And this premise is used to justify all sorts of bad programs and policies, including drastically ramping up penalties for people who pay for sex.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/01\/03\/maines-bad-prostitution-law-could-be-coming-soon-to-your-state\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1895,839],"class_list":["post-12829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-maine","tag-prostitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12830,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12829\/revisions\/12830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}