Gerda Christenson of Kvinnofronten (the Women’s Front of Sweden) breaks down the tactics of the “Swedish Rose Alliance” and similar pimp-run “Sex Workers” organizations peddling the “happy hooker myth” to a gullible Patriarchal media; she also delves into the collusion of the Swedish government and how prostitution advocates easily gain entry into “pride” events by claiming their job of normalizing men exploiting women makes them “queer”:

“It started when the freelance journalist Kajsa Skarsgård revealed that Rose Alliance was financially supported by the Dutch organization Mama Cash – an organization advocating for decriminalization of prostitution and for it to be seen as “sex work”. During 2011 to 2013, Rose Alliance received about 95 000 euros in financial support. The money came indirectly from the Swedish government, since Mama Cash received 31 million SEK from SIDA (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency).

This revelation led to an ex-member of Rose Alliance deciding to tell people her story of how the organization actually worked. Anna Berg (assumed name) told that she approached Rose Alliance for support, because she wanted to meet other prostituted women, and also find a place where she didn’t have to lie about what she did. But the organization wasn’t supporting women. – Rose Alliance is a political organization, not an organization helping women, Anna told the Swedish newspaper Dagens Arena. She also said that only a few people are running the organization.– Rose Alliance basically is Pye Jakobsson. Anna also said that Pye Jakobsson is actually not at all “one of the girls”, as she herself puts it, but rather belongs to the other side. It turned out that Pye Jakobsson has been on the board for the strip club Flirt Fashion in Stockholm since 2001. Anna explained that Pye Jakobsson also was planning the women’s schedules and helped recruiting new girls to the club. ROSE ALLIANCE has a webpage, but the only information about them available there is an email address. And their postal address is the same as Jakobsson’s home address.

Rose Alliance is sometimes confronted with tangible facts about what women in prostitution are subjected to, every day and worldwide. The spokespeople of Rose Alliance will then claim that they are only talking about women who want to be in prostitution and who enjoy it – because, they say, there are already other laws protecting against rape or human trafficking, for example. But this way of dividing prostitution into voluntary or forced does not reflect reality. To the contrary, there is a clear connection between legalized prostitution and human trafficking – among other examples there is the fact that trafficking tends to increase in countries where prostitution in itself is legal. Futhermore, in Sweden legal demands for proof in human trafficking cases are so difficult to meet, that in fact many cases of trafficking are sentenced as procuring. And procuring is a crime that Rose Alliance wants to have removed.

Rose Alliance has participated in the Stockholm Pride parade during the last few years, claiming to be ”queer”. Prostitution being a rather extreme example of heteronormativity (the majority of all prostitution worldwide consists of men sexually exploiting women) has not stopped the Pride board from welcoming them.“ The organization as much as admitted that they don’t represent prostituted women in this outrageous Huffington Post puffpiece from last year:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/…/pye-jakobsson_b_4977067.h… where Jakobsson lists as a matter of concern “respecting diverse experiences and not discounting people by deeming them not representative as a silencing tactic”. She went on to regurgitate a number of factually-incorrect statements that have become default for decrim advocates’ “sex worker safety” propaganda, which have been dissected and refuted here: http://feministcurrent.com/…/new-research-shows-violence-d…/

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To learn more about WoLF’s Pornstitution Task Force: http://womensliberationfront.org/wolf-task-forces/