Spanish feminists are deeply divided over sex work — between those who view it as exploitative and those who see sex work as a legitimate profession. With sex workers fighting to unionize, this division among feminists is becoming even more pronounced.
An angry voice blared from a megaphone at the back of the college lecture hall even before the guest speakers — sex workers — had said a word.
The debate has reached the national arena: Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, a self-proclaimed feminist, has thrown his weight behind anti-prostitution groups and vowed to crack down on the sex business, including punishing clients. A movement of women known as— abolitionists — has gained traction in recent years by likening prostitution to slavery.Ana, a 58-year-old sex worker from Rio de Janeiro, on Carrer d’En Robador in Barcelona, Spain.
To fight exploitation, in 2018 OTRAS applied for union status from Spain’s Labor Ministry, which approved the group as the nation’s first sex workers union. But that same year, Spain’s Constitutional Court, arguing that the relationship between prostitutes and their clients was not based in labor. Sánchez and abolitionists applauded the decision.
In 2018, the Interior Ministry identified 128 victims of sex trafficking through workplace inspections and raids in which women were liberated and given assistance by government and nongovernmental agencies. But in 2015, prostitutes found an ally in newly elected Mayor Ada Colau, a feminist who ordered a moratorium on the ordinance’s enforcement.
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