T&T: Human rights for "sex workers" the route to legalization of prostution

"THE human rights of the sex worker are not protected when their activities remain illegal," according to Dr Brader Adaleine Brathwaite, of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine.

Brathwaite spoke yesterday, the final day of the university's three-day symposium on Gender Sexuality and the Implications for Substance Use and HIV/Aids. Her topic was "The Situation of Commercial Sex Work in Trinidad and Tobago in the context of the HIV/Aids Epidemic".

In a paper she wrote, she said the legal system that attempted to control commercial sex workers was either corrupt or weak, and trying to curb the trade using existing legislation was difficult.

What about the impact of prostitution on the female sense of self-worth, Brader? No matter how much the politically correct attempt to prettify the language, women will always be demeaned by and feel diminished by prostitution.