The march of the seven prostitution survivors arrived in Brussels on Saturday. The protestors want prostitution to be recognised as violence and an obstacle to equality between men and women. They have been meeting between members of various associations during this operation. The march was started by year-old Rosen Hicher, who was a prostitute in France for 22 years.
Hicher has already organised three marches. How can we leave them there, to face general indifference and be at the mercy of violence from clients? We have to ban prostitution and do more to combat pimping.
UTSOPI the union of organised sex workers for independence thinks prostitution survivors are picking the wrong fight by saying that prostitution is practised clandestinely in countries where is it illegal.
When you get out of it, you see it. She explained that this march aims to stop prostitution from being made banal. The sex industry only exists because of money. The market is fed by trafficking, which is based on an enormous amount of tolerance and inequality. A majority of prostitutes are female and their clients tend to be male. The large majority of prostitutes we meet are foreign women from minority communities, so they are already vulnerable in their own countries.
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