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National Rally (RN) lawmaker Jean-Philippe Tanguy said his proposed bill would allow sex workers in France to be "empresses in their kingdom."

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.euronews.com/2025/12/09/french-far-right-wants-to-reopen-brothels-and-put-sex-workers-in-charge


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[-] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 minutes ago

That doesn't sound very "far-right".

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 points 6 hours ago

Doubt. This would actually be a good thing.

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 13 points 10 hours ago

The far right would never do this. It's surely a feint, or a distraction, or possibly they've found a way to do this in a way that is actually horrible. If none of that turns out to be true I'll admit to some confusion.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 8 hours ago

yeah its like trump floated decriminalizing marijuana but instead he is making a new war on drugs and this time literally war. not a euphemism.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Maybe drugs needs to step up it's game

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 4 points 9 hours ago

My guess is "lying about worker ownership and they just want to do Epstein shit"

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 3 points 9 hours ago

Well yeah I heard there was a vacancy.

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Yup, they'll ne the first to vote no on it

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 2 points 9 hours ago

My French is not so good, but all Americans are fluent in Bullshit.

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

Nobody wants to have sex with the fascists, so they make a concession that allows them to get some (for money)

[-] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 6 points 9 hours ago

Sounds like the sort of thing they'll propose and put to a vote...

Only to all vote no on it, then gaslight their audience that they defeated yet another left-wing agenda

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Dare I say... based? Broken clock right twice a day etc etc. Or maybe in France sex is apolitical.

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

I'm gonna assume they would reopen them then NOT put the workers in charge

[-] Sphere@hexbear.net 2 points 8 hours ago

The article quotes a lady from a "sex worker support group" that turns out to be a SWERF organization:

L’Amicale du Nid firmly supports the belief that prostitution is intrinsically incompatible with human dignity and equality between men and women; the human body cannot be construed as an object or piece of merchandise. It refuses to liken it to a profession and wishes to build its action along consistent abolitionist lines, advocating for the ban of any form of sexual intercourse for payment

It goes on about non-penalisation of sex workers but last I checked, a total ban wasn't what actual sex workers wanted.

I don't know, this just might be a broken-clock kind of thing. Probably for the worst possible reasons, though, if I had to guess.

[-] CrookedSerpent@hexbear.net 2 points 9 hours ago
[-] Goretantath@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Heck yeah, so long as there's mandatory std testing I see this as a win win situation.

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 12 hours ago

What the actual hell... Based?

[-] timewarp@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

This sounds like something the far left & far right will agree on. They'll say, how empowering.

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