Asbo’ing kerb crawlers
Great article in today’s Society Guardian. Asbo’ing kerb crawlers, if coupled with cranking up funding to one of the drugs rehabilitation agencies, would be a real solution to the small but real problem we have with commercial street sex in Oxford.
You must forgive my confusion here. I can understand that “Asbo’ing” kerb-crawlers might have some effect (but almost certainly an unintended one) on the commercial sex trade prevalent amongst the dreaming spires but what has that got to do with pumping more money into drug rehabilitation centres? Most whores are lazy, greedy and stupid and whether or not they are on drugs will not change their chosen occupation one iota.
David - asbo’ing kerb crawlers would help reduce the demand for commercial sex; increasing drug rehab would help reduce the number of women willing / forced to sell it; taken together, the two would be a good strategy to reduce prostitution.
“Most whores are lazy, greedy and stupid and whether or not they are on drugs will not change their chosen occupation one iota.”
That’s nonsense. Drug dependency is one of the biggest factors in maintaining a street sex scene. Another is violence - forced pimping. In neither case can selling sex be called a “chosen occupation”. And whilst I’m not qualified to comment on whether women selling sex are lazy, greedy or stupid, it’s not sure whether being any of those things should put you outside the concern of society.
It would certainly be good to see the law being used as a deterrent here.
My only concern about the whole ASBO/ABC approach is that they are not seen as an end in themselves, that there should also be some ‘rehabilitation’ element - in the case of kerb-crawling, I think that those receiving ASBOs should also be made to attend awareness programmes.
Two things, firstly this isn’t going to work, it’s the worst Daily Mail wishful thinking, At best it will move the problem somewhere else.
The only realistic thing to do is to restart supplying Opiates on the national health (However no Government would have the bottle to do this, it’s much more acceptable to waste millions on prisons and policing)