Prostitution is NOT equivalent to drug use

[EffieBlack]

I've seen some here try to equate the two, but they are not equivalent.

The drug trade traffics in an inanimate product. The product in prostitution are human beings.

No comparison.

[uppityperson]

1. Drugs affect humans, not just inanimate

I haven't seen the comparison, but that is too simplistic.

[Ms. Toad]

4. The buyer in prostitution directly impacts the product (a human)

The buyer in a drug deal directly impacts the product (an inanimate object)

Yes, there are downstream impacts on humans beyond the drug user, but it is a fundamentald difference that in a drug deal, the user is buying an inanimate object, as opposed to a human being.

[uppityperson]

7. True

[EffieBlack]

6. I didn't say drugs don't affect human beings. But they're NOT human beings.

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Comparing the drug trade to prostitution leaves out a critical element - the humanity of the women who are the product.

Supplier: drug dealer =pimp/trafficker OK
Consumer: drug usef = john OK
Product: drugs ? female human beings

[uppityperson]

8. True

[4139]

2. Some drugs are essentially WMDs

[ProudLib72]

3. See: "Krokodil"

[Trenzalore]

5. Sex trafficking is slavery

Two people capable of consent making a business arrangement is not slavery.

How legally you split the hairs over whether someone is in a position to make informed consent in exchange for money is an undertaking I would not want to be involved in with the legislature.

Robert Kraft's girlfriend is close to 40 years younger than he is. Love is an amazing thing but I'm assuming they have a business arrangement.

[MaryMagdaline]

9. Well said

[applegrove]

10. Pimps get their prostitutes hooked on drugs so they will stay prostitutes.

Girls take drugs to get over what they are doing to their souls by selling themselves. Drugs can kill. It is all a vicious relationship. I've seen young girls dress up to visit their man in prison...like he is a celebrity. It is a cult on top of drugs on top of prostitution.

[EffieBlack]

11. Interesing choice of words

One of the young women I worked with who had been trafficked from the age of 13 refused to call it prostitution
She called it "soul theft."

[EffieBlack]

12. Jeff Tiedrich nails it, as usual

Link to tweet

[kcr]

13. It's telling that prostitution is always equated to inanimate product by its backers

Someone here equated it with cleaning a bedpan earlier. It's typical. It's why they can't comprehend why it's wrong.