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BainsBane

(55,523 posts)
5. You mean a child's right to choose
Sat Aug 9, 2014, 07:35 PM
Aug 2014

Since most prostitutes are in fact underage, according to one poster who approvingly cited this source:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2008/08/02/teen-prostitution-in-america/

I would submit this is not about a woman's right to choose but an entitled man's right to acquire and own, with no regard to the ensuing human trafficking--which means slavery--child rape, and economic blight that comes in its wake. It's about middle- and upper-middle class men taking and using the bodies of underage girls and boys for their own sexual pleasure with willful disregard for the consequences.

It's neoliberal class exploitation and the fortification of patriarchy.

This study tracks 121 countries and documents a marked increase in human trafficking where prostitution has been legalized. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1986065
Human trafficking is the slave trade. Legalization increases demand, which increases slave trading of very young women, girls, boys, and young children to those areas so that men can violate them at will.

When people determinedly refuse to pay attention to the fallout of prostitution, including legalized prostitution, it shows they do not care about those human beings and care only about either their theories of capitalist utopias or men's access to human bodies to use at will.

What you call "puritanical" I call human rights. Chris Hedges and Noam Chomsky also decry such industries for the rampant and violent abuse of women and children.

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Prostitution: Have you ever? [View all] JJChambers Aug 2014 OP
Never have. Never will. MineralMan Aug 2014 #1
I would support legalization, but am not in the market for the service. BillZBubb Aug 2014 #2
If it were not for being able to view user names, edgineered Aug 2014 #3
That usually doesn't stop people from voting. MineralMan Aug 2014 #4
+1 nt edgineered Aug 2014 #9
You mean a child's right to choose BainsBane Aug 2014 #5
+1. closeupready Aug 2014 #10
Uh... regnaD kciN Aug 2014 #17
Well, let me clarify BainsBane Aug 2014 #18
Yep... Callmecrazy Aug 2014 #6
I have first-hand experience with this issue BainsBane Aug 2014 #7
Great post. Thank you. n/t Judi Lynn Aug 2014 #15
Just so you know BainsBane Aug 2014 #16
i understand why guys who need to pay for sex would feel a need to turn JI7 Aug 2014 #8
A woman's "right" to be owned BainsBane Aug 2014 #11
Where is the "I am patronizing one as I write this post" selection PowerToThePeople Aug 2014 #12
What an odd poll leftstreet Aug 2014 #13
You nailed it in one short sentence BainsBane Aug 2014 #14
Currently one out of eight polled edgineered Aug 2014 #19
Never. Never. 840high Aug 2014 #20
Never done it, probably never would Prophet 451 Aug 2014 #21
Puritanical? Me? I've never been Puritanical. hunter Aug 2014 #22
Define prostitute. Are we just talking sex? flvegan Aug 2014 #23
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