Gender, Crime, and the Problem with Prostitution (Podcast)

In this episode, I'll be discussing how gender relates to crime including how traditional gender roles have affected an individual's potential criminality. Then I'll review the liberal and radical schools of thought regarding feminist criminology. Lastly, I'll explore the biggest problems we are facing in regards to prostitution and sex trafficking. Link to The Typology of Modern Slavery: polarisproject...
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[@SAntonoyannakie]

Hi, freshman criminology student and former sex worker here. Escorting was my secondary source of income for almost 4 years in Iceland and Sweden - despite the Nordic model being very unsafe for sex workers (also very bad for trafficking victims). I have not encountered a single university campus in Sweden, Iceland, the UK or Greece (the 4 countries I am closely affiliated with) where there weren't students escorting (all from undergraduates to PhD students), but I also have met many people who have had a history escorting, stripping or webcamming for a living, from the sexologist and cultural anthropologist teaching mindful sexuality seminars in my community to my former waitress colleague to my ex who is a piano teacher who is doing his PhD in music to my animal rights activist friend who supports her activism this way to the trans gender friend who is an award winning photographer but cannot find any other job capable of paying her rent to the friend who has a dedicated career as a pro dom that she wouldn't trade for anything, and the list goes literally on and on and on. Rest assured that there are sex workers at the school you graduated from and in your neighbourhood, and that we are representative of the majority of sex workers in the West in that most of us are or have been independent indoor workers working online - on those websites that allow us to vet clients and work safely and which law enforcement has often taken from us. We don't need counseling or rehabilitation - I know that there are sex workers with drug addictions, just as there are many cooks with drug addictions, but I don't smoke, drink or do any drugs, and the majority of workers I know don't have any addiction other than chain smoking. For those who don't wish a career in the sex trade, we just need to abolish poverty, and allow equal access to career opportunities for minorities such as migrants, POC, neurodivergent folks and lgbtq people. And as you pointed out, legalization is a bad model for human rights - what sex workers and sex worker unions all over the world demand is decriminalization, thanks for echoing that.
Besides all that, this video barely said anything about female offending, even though the beginning of the podcast sounded promising. Human trafficking is barely a female offender's problem (last time I checked most traffickers were male), and sex workers... well, whether we're criminals or not depends on how you define crime - not much for labelling theory, are you? No offence, I generally really like your content, but if I wanted to spend 20 minutes listening about sex work, there are many other videos by way more reliable and authoritative voices (ie sex workers) that I could choose.
Seriously, I would like a video (or podcast) that actually focuses on gender & crime and / or female offenders. If you got one that I missed because I'm relatively new to your channel, I'd be grateful to have the link.

[@richarddelgaudio4600]

The truth shall set you free

[@keleraya]

You need to educate yourself about sex work from people who actually know about it. There are thousands of sex worker advocacy organizations fighting for full decriminalization globally. You are repeating "stats" that have been debunked.