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In reply to the discussion: What are the main reasons men pay for sex? [View all]BainsBane
(53,035 posts)It is the reality of what prostitution is, how it functions. The experiences of sex workers and those who grow up surrounded by prostitution are only extraneous if one considers those lives irrelevant. It's like talking about mining without considering the environmental consequences, ignoring the fact toxic run off causes cancer among workers and the community.
Refusing to consider what you call "extraneous" does not deal with the reality of the sex industry. That you consider those experiences "extraneous" only proves my point. It's all about a man's right to buy and own. Nothing else matters. No one else matters. The important point is to prop up privilege and power. That privilege and power results in exploitation, rape, human trafficking and death, but those lives are not important enough to even bother reading about let alone taking into account. That is the nature of the society we live in. It is the same ethos that allows the very few to control all resources and wealth. Capitalism always considers human rights and the common good irrelevant. Rights vest entirely in the hands of the few, and the majority, particularly women, children and the poor, are dismissed. Yes, it's quite obvious that human lives are extraneous under neoliberalism.
You asked about ethics. Dismissing human beings as "extraneous" is not ethical. It is in fact unconscionable.
My view of ethnics does not value a man's right to rape or even purchase consensual sex above human rights and human life. I do not personally believe that ethics allow a conception of rights as vested only in the hands of those who buy.
If this were about people's private sex lives, there would be no need to commodify it for profit. There would be no need to cajole others into sanctioning it. This is about commerce--capitalism and it's most naked. That is what people are insisting take precedence over extraneous human lives-- children raped, women treated as "its" and entire populations of teens killed because the privilege of men of means trumps human life. http://www.democraticunderground.com/125548981
You are the one who invoked ethics, only you have made clear you have no interest in exploring the reality of the sex trade let alone whether or not such treatment is ethical.