Albanian journalist: Why did we have more sex in Communism?

News of the last few days on the discovery of prostitution networks, operating in central Tirana, has long been making sense. The existence of the phenomenon is no longer news, but only the local conflicts of the authorities with it.

But while in the vicinity of the phenomenon, we as a society continue to face it with the consciousness of the ostrich, who thinks it saves only by closing our eyes so that we refuse to perceive the urgency and aggression of the phenomenon, the geography of the extent and depth of its insight... At a time, that are all around us have long been involved in discussions as bright as public, both of the social perception of prostitution and of the legal treatment of protagonists and its beneficiaries.

So much different for us from the rest of the world?

Although it is found in virtually every culture, its attitude toward prostitution depends on the cultural, ethical, and religious standards of respective societies and constantly differs under the influence of their development. Likewise, the attitude of international institutions and organizations. Thus, while the EU Parliament in 2014 recommended member states to ban prostitution, such as violation of human rights and the form of violence against women, Amnesty International ʹ with a principled decision, based on worldwide surveys ♫ announced its decision a year later, to access pro “deviance of all aspects of consensus sexual work”. This double of attitudes is reflected in the global view of the phenomenon.

Currently, prostitution is allowed in Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, Finland (partly), Greece, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Hungary, England and is banned in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, France, Lithuania, Italy, Norway, Romania, Sweden. Prostitution is also allowed in Australia, Brazil, Canada, and New Zealand, while banned in the U.S., Africa, and Japan, China, where there are motions for thought, Pakistan and Thailand, where the ban is partial as well as in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, where it is sentenced to death. Albania is widely identified as a country that prohibits prostitution on the one hand, but in turn functions as a source for the trafficking of Albanian sex slaves towards the West.

Does the public discussion justify itself for its discrimination?

Aimed to cut or narrow the scope of organized crime action, of course! On the condition that access is devoid of pseudomoralism and sexism.

Prostitution is not a natural phenomenon, but a social product. The frequent reminder, such as the world's oldest <x0). Yes, the fact is, the world has had and needs it and even our world and as long as the demand survives, it will continue to produce offerings inevitably. Prostitution is certainly a way to ensure non-mininal income, impossible or difficult to earn differently. As long as the job market requires a missing qualification, from the ill-paid secular work, and the money marriage becomes a captive, prostitution will continue to serve as an alternative to any labor or forced marriage.

But if that is the case, what evidence is in favor, and what against the liberalization of prostitution?

The pro-confer to human rights against them is based on the continuation of their denaturality even on legalisation conditions.

In a cold liberal approach to the issue, the ban on prostitution by law limits its ability to exercise as a life insurance profession and therefore constitutes human rights violations. That if someone chooses to offer sex in exchange for payment, there is certainly a good reason to make the decision the best alternative to the reality in which the individual lives. And if this option falls legally or socially, the individual needs to seek a different alternative, which constitutes a restriction on his right to employment. But critics note that legalising prostitution does not automatically mean increased employment opportunities for women, since according to the prostitutes interviewed, prostitution is not a choice but an inability to employ otherwise. Referring to a study conducted in five Western European countries ʹ global legalisation opponents point out that even women involved in prostitution are opposed to the treatment of prostitution as legitimate work, as they feel it brings even greater risks from violent users.

In fact, both existence and discrimination of prostitution are possible only in a culture where sex has not as a prerequisite the equality of partners, but one-sided will. So patriarchal societies tend to view sex as a unilateral act in which the woman's desire is not relevant, but just her formal consent. In conditions where a person wants to have sex, he can satisfy his desire in a relationship that is committed regardless of his mate's wishes, it is all possible that he will receive this satisfaction toward paying even elsewhere. Critics note, however, that the liberalisation of prostitution does not ease any social tension. According to them, it applies only to the sex industry, after removing the stigma, turning traffickers into entrepreneurs, and releasing the demand for the sex market from moral scruples or social fears.

While advocates of legalisation, including all international human rights organisations, support the decontinence of prostitution, to get out of illegality, and to get rid of the way, abuse and discrimination of his employees, for critics, legalisation cannot improve their status { that if they can on the way, they can avoid danger and refuse dangerous and denigrate practices, in closed environments are simply the victims of employers. According to them, legalisation goes only to the interest of customers anyway. In most cases, they are also victims, infected by customers because of the defenseless sex that they cannot refuse without consequences even in legalization.

The discussion is multiplanet, delicate and important. It requires knowledge and tolerance, justice and humanity, clear approaches and sincere willingness to social engagement. First of all, it takes courage not to close your eyes, willingness to pronounce without complexity, and responsibility for supported recommendations and prospects of healing value.

Such a discussion of time has not come...

That when the effects of the phenomenon are stolen and hit on four sides in the center and the suburbs, in the high layers and in the dirty mats, like survival or organized crime..., there are ostriches that can hide by closing their eyes...

So you better open your eyes and your mouth...

/Buriment: Mapo.