{UAH} Govt should tax sex work

With all honesty, no war against sex worker shall ever be won. Canon law defined a sex worker as a promiscuous woman or a whore who was available for the lust of many men.

But lately, even men are available to be bought by rich women for sexual pleasure. In Uganda, most women and men who engage in the sex work do so because they are looking for survival and a way to afford a decent living.

It is wrong to think that only those whores who stand under lampposts in Kabalagala and on Speke Road do sex work. There are also many married, working class people who engage in quid- pro quo sex.

Sex work has existed as an occupation since time immemorial. The outbreak of gonorrhea, Aids and other life-threatening sexually transmitted diseases hasn't stopped sex work.

Not even the current laws have stopped it and that is why websites like Exotic Escorts Kampala exist and unemployed youths are busy earning untaxed income.

Government should decriminalize sex work, after all the Uganda Revenue Authority is hungry for taxes and this could be a great opportunity to collect taxes from brothels.

By failing to decriminalize sex work and taxing them, the government is losing huge revenue mobilization just like they have ignored colonial shrines as pastors collect huge offertory.

Just like Human Rights Watch recently pronounced, criminalizing adult, voluntary and consensual sex - including the commercial exchange of sexual services – is incompatible with the human right to personal autonomy and privacy.

A government should not be telling consenting adults who they can have sexual relations with and on what terms.

Kakwenza Rukirabashaija,
Iganga

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"When a man is stung by a bee, he doesn't set off to destroy all beehives"

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