I read the headline, “Amnesty International Votes to Recommend Decriminalizing Sex Work.” I read it again thinking that I had gotten something wrong. I hadn’t.

Then I became enraged.

To think that a human rights organization would embrace an insane stance such as this is beyond wrong. It is criminally insane. So I continued to read hoping beyond hope that they had some rational which would make sense.

This was their rational. ““Sex workers are one of the most marginalized groups in the world who in most instances face constant risk of discrimination, violence and abuse,” said Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty in a statement. “Our global movement paved the way for adopting a policy for the protection of the human rights of sex workers which will help shape Amnesty International’s future work on this important issue.”

WHAT????

So okay let me get this right. We are going to make pimping and prostitution a legal option for society and that is going to elevate pimping and prostitution out of the ranks of abuse and demoralization? REALLY?!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME????

I can not wrap my sane mind around this.

First of all most women or girls who are prostituted are not criminals. It is the pimps and those who pay for sex that are the criminals. Some of these women have been sold into the sex trade because their families did not have money. Others enter the occupation because they have not had the opportunity to gain an education. I don’t think many of them do it because they want to. It is a matter of survival.

To decriminalize this is to give the pimps and the paying perverts the right to continue to treat these women as if they are just a dumping ground for their abuse and perversion. I do not know why the feminists are not all over this shit. Because as a God fearing single mother I want to go ballistic.