Finnish MP Anna Kontula has revealed that she was a sex worker for years before entering politics. In an interview with the new outlet Helsingin Sanomat (HS) published on Saturday, Kontula said she is not ashamed of the experience, adding that it helped shape her political career.Kontula, 48, is serving her fourth term in the Finnish Parliament. While she has long campaigned for sex workers’ rights, she had never spoken publicly about her own experience.Kontula told HS she began escorting at 16 while living in a student dorm, and said the choice came from both financial hardship and curiosity. “If I wanted to somehow make ends meet… it was a pretty rational solution,” she explained.She worked in the industry on and off for nearly two decades and became an outspoken advocate. In 2002, she co-founded the sex workers’ union SALLI and published articles challenging public perceptions of the industry. When Finland passed a 2006 law partly restricting the purchase of sex, she saw it as a partial victory, noting it included protections for trafficking victims.Kontula has served in parliament since 2011, continuing to campaign for sex workers’ rights. When asked why she decided to speak out now, she told HS: “Talking about the topic now can bring benefits to social debate [on sex work] and its direction.” She has announced she will not seek reelection and is training to become a social worker, including providing safe-sex education.Kontula’s coming out has already drawn criticism. In an opinion piece published in HS on Sunday, legal psychologist Pia Puolakka called it “worrying” that the MP described sex work as “just work among others,” and argued that “normalizing sex work does not make society freer or fairer.”“The task of a civilized state is to guarantee conditions in which no one has to sell their intimacy,” Puolakka wrote.
>>525785905At least she's not a moslum.
>16 >escortYeesh but then again i do know a few former escorts who smoked meth and whored themselves out at 14
>Prostitution is legal in Finland with some exceptions. Although Kontula was a minor when she began sex work, Finnish law did not prohibit it at the time. However, the 2006 legislation partially criminalized the purchase of sex, making it illegal to buy from minors, trafficking victims, or those involved in procurement.so:MPs can groom girls into prostitution in national newspapers, saying its fun and not even illegal (unless youre the man in the equation, you sick fuck)HAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
>>525785968>better a 20yr veteran WHORE than a muslimyea hows that working out for you?what would a female Aussie MP say?>In 2006, Australian Federal MP Danna Vale, a Liberal backbencher at the time, made comments during parliamentary debate on abortion policy that included a prediction about demographics. In that context she said:Aussies were “aborting ourselves almost out of existence” because of high termination rates, andShe speculated that if current trends continued Australia could become a “Muslim nation in 50 years’ time” because Muslim communities had higher birth rates.WOMPWOMPWOOOOOOOMP
>>525785905So she didn't change her career at all
>>525785905Why is the ugliest woman in Finland a hooker? I thought Finland had hot blonde women?
