State-Enforced Prostitution in Belgium: Women Can't Say No
Your Body, the Pimp’s Choice
The Belgian Parliament has approved a law allowing government intervention to help pimps when prostitutes refuse sexual acts ‘too often’ — with 93 votes in favour, zero opposed, and 33 abstained. The numbers are chilling, a unanimous betrayal of our civilisational values in the guise of bureaucratic affairs.
Ostensibly, the law aims to protect so-called sex workers, granting them ‘rights’ to refuse sexual acts—but only up to a point. The woman is awarded 10 refusals every 6 months, after that her pimp can call on a government mediator to intervene. Not exactly a right; only a temporary privilege, subject to the whims of the master.
In practice, this will mean that an impoverished Belgian woman or one of the many Eastern European women trafficked into sex work there, will eventually be mandated to oblige to sex with men they wouldn’t otherwise consent to. For example, men belonging to groups associated with the rise in sex crimes in Europe, such as immigrant men.
In practice, the law means Belgian women might be coerced into having sex with immigrant men
Another example would be a woman refusing to have sex with members of groups associated with higher levels of STDs, such as men who identify as trans women. Or customers with poor hygiene. Imagine the scenario:
“I don’t want to have sex with this guy, he’s gross!” says the woman. “I’m sorry, you already used this excuse ten times this semester, now go get ready!” replies the pimp.
Belgium has crossed a line, and it’s a line we should all be paying attention to because it’s moving fast on the West’s horizon. We mustn’t assume that once we stop climbing the slippery slope, gravity won’t apply anymore.
The push for the erosion of traditional values is all part of the same continuum. It’s the slippery slope that runs through the commodification of human life.
Abortion was legalised in Belgium in 1990. Prostitution has never been illegal, but the act of soliciting and pimping was legalised in 1995. Belgium became the second country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage in January 2003. It is also one of the few countries where euthanasia is permitted for adults and minors, legalised in May 2002.
“Bake the Cake” Capitalism
In line with ESG best practices, in Belgium, pimps are required to have registered offices and apply for government approval to offer contracts to prostitutes. These contracts are disguised as hotel-restaurant-café (HoReCa) contracts to maintain anonymity.
The garden-variety ‘fiscally conservative, socially liberal’ types are celebrating this law as if it were simply allowing McDonald’s to force their employees to flip burgers without prejudice towards the final customer. Completely anesthetised by cash and goods, they easily ignore the demolition of ethical and moral values that underpin their entrepreneurial fantasies.
It’s not simply a ‘flip the burger’ law; it’s a ‘bake the cake’ law: a prostitute cannot separate her soul from her work. Even when society says otherwise.
In the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the brothel itself is unable to refuse service and can now compel the prostitute to perform the dirty work. If the body still belonged to her, one might be tempted to call it sexual abuse. Remember, you will own nothing, be happy and pay your taxes.
If the body still belonged to her, one might be tempted to call it sexual abuse
In this dystopian scenario, women’s bodies are bought and sold with the government’s blessing. Freedom is slavery and slavery is empowerment. Promiscuity becomes a means of maintaining social cohesion and modulating behaviour, a state of near-total dehumanisation, where the government doesn’t just condone sexual exploitation—it mandates it.
Fifth-Column Feminism
Sexual liberation was always supposed to progress like this: turning female sexuality into a tool for male gratification. Somehow, the DEI-infused commissariats run by cat ladies with purple hair ended up delivering a system that looks designed by a committee of hormone-charged 10th-grade boys, chaired by Andrew Tate. Good job!
The so-called ‘sex-positive’ movement has paved the way for state-sanctioned sexual exploitation. And the liberation turned out to be bondage with a thin veneer of legality.
The question of how to handle ‘sex work’ is one third-wave feminism was never able to answer, much like their ambiguity on pornography, the beginning of life, or even defining what a woman is. In reality, third-wave feminism never had answers to anything. Yet, they demanded prostitution be legitimised as ‘sex work.’ Commodification is, unfortunately, just the next logical step.
The bitter irony is that legalising sex work has led to greater oppression of vulnerable women. If irony will drive the outcomes of feminism—as it often does—perhaps fourth-wave feminism will aim to restore taboos and ensure that sex is reserved for the sanctity of marriage. You know, to avoid catastrophic results.
Poverty and famine will make prostitution popular in all western countries. In one way or another. And along with that comes government rules and regulation, and taxation. What happens in one civilized western country is being organized in all.
what the actual fuck