'Selling sex doesn't make you an unfit parent'

[The Straight Story]

'Selling sex doesn't make you an unfit parent'

The murder of a Swedish sex worker has garnered attention across the globe, and has activist Pye Jacobsson questioning Sweden's prostitution laws and the misconceptions surrounding the line of work.

Eva-Marree, a 27-year-old sex worker also known as Petite Jasmine, lost custody of her two children to her ex-boyfriend, 31, in a district court last year. She was stabbed to death last Thursday when she went to see her children after her ex brought a knife with him to the handover.

Now, sex activists around the world have united in an attempt to shed light on the stigmas attached to sex workers.

"I've never seen a murder have such an affect on the community," said Pye Jacobsson, a co-ordinator for Rose Alliance, which works for prostitutes' rights across the world.

Many of the sex workers, including 24-year sex work veteran Jacobsson, are critical of keeping prostitution illegal. Sweden, which outlawed the purchase rather than the sale of sex fifteen years ago, has come under intense scrutiny for its legislation. While some observers have said it is ground-breaking in shifting responsibility for prostitution onto the demand rather than the supply side, others have argued that the law has simply forced sex workers underground, where they are still offered no protection.

http://www.thelocal.se/49220/20130723/

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1. That's true.

I am sure there are sex workers who are dreadful parents and sex workers who are fine parents.

And fathers who stab people to death are probably way below average parents.