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<\/a><\/p>\nThe comments that created the controversy<\/h2>\n
The Lib Dem meeting involved a discussion on ways to confront and combat the stigma that\u2019s attached to sex work; Parsons made an input in the matter with this comment:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact that we are asking \u2018should we seek to prevent people entering sex work?\u2019 is part of the problem. You wouldn\u2019t ask the question \u2018should we prevent people becoming accountants?\u2019 You\u2019d just take it for granted.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The Lib Dem politician decided to take his thoughts further with another statement:<\/p>\n \u201cWe have got a huge cultural problem that we do see sex work as different, and we see it as something a little bit tacky.\u201d<\/p>\n During the discussion, while further comments were made about pupils considering sex work as a possible career choice, the question that put the controversy at its peak was \u2018Why shouldn\u2019t they?\u2019<\/p>\n After the remarks that were made by Parsons, Tim Farron, the current leader of the Liberal Democrats stated to the Press Association:<\/p>\n \u201cIt is a wonderful thing that we are in a party where those sort of views can be expressed and you can have that sort of exchange.\u201d<\/p>\n However, Farron distanced himself from the comments made, and added what he thought about them.<\/p>\n \u201cThey are certainly not my views. Drawing the equivalence between sex work and accountancy is not one that I share.\u201d After the controversy in the meeting, Parsons felt that it was needed to explain the remarks that were made at the meeting, along with the \u2018misinterpretations\u2019 that followed.<\/p>\n \u201cIn my view, we are conditioned as a society to see sex work as unsavoury. I tried to demonstrate this by comparing attitudes to sex work with attitudes to accountancy.\u201d<\/p>\n Parsons went in depth with his comparison between sex work and accountancy.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was meant as a rhetorical question as everyone \u2013 including myself \u2013 would consider it unthinkable. No one in the room took it as anything other than that.\u201d<\/p>\n With his resignation, the ex-chairman made one final statement.<\/p>\n \u201cI do accept that my remarks were capable of misinterpretation and the repercussions are such that I felt I had no option but to resign that post with immediate effect.\u201d<\/p>\nWhat the leader of the Liberal Democrats had to say<\/h2>\n
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\nNot everyone agreed with Parsons\u2019 remarks, nor did everyone share his vision on combating the sex work stigmatisation by introducing the concept of it in schools. <\/strong>Due to the amount of condemnation that he received, Parsons felt like he had no choice but to leave his post as chairman of Cheltenham Liberal Democrats.<\/p>\nThe ex-Lib Dem chairman\u2019s additional comments<\/h2>\n
The thin line between Sex Work and Politics<\/h2>\n