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In reply to the discussion: What are the main reasons men pay for sex? [View all]johnlucas
(1,250 posts)I said this many times in these posts.
I'm done with the human rights violations done by violent pimps who beat their women, sex traffickers who force girls & women into sex slavery.
THAT is what needs to be ended.
Unlike you though, I don't equate that criminality with the prostitution business itself.
They are SEPARATE.
You won't make that distinction & choose to see EVERY prostitute as a victim & that's simply not true.
You CLEAN UP that business & you'll eliminate those abusers, redqueen.
And it's gonna take MORE than just a national effort, it will take an INTERNATIONAL effort.
I will fight for that cause all day long.
But I'm not gonna go into Puritan hypocrisy just because it involves a sexual issue.
I'm not gonna go catatonic because prostitution exists.
I see it as a fact of life just as inherent to the human species as pornography is.
They had drawings on caves of titillating sexual images.
Old fertility sculptures with big bellied, large breasted, wide hipped women.
They even have this penis festival in Japan every year with a totem of a giant penis!
I bet dollars to doughnuts you see porn stars & strippers as victims too huh?
You see them as lost souls that you have to save from themselves, I imagine.
What would happen when those porn stars & strippers told you to stuff yourself?
What's really the difference if it's just a woman telling you how to live your life vs. a man telling you how to live your life?
All that changed is the gender. It's still tyranny.
Instead of paternalism we have maternalism. Wow. Big difference.
I am in favor of giving women choices.
That is why the women's movement was formed.
To give them the chance to be in control of their own destinies.
I don't believe in treating the female sex as children who don't know any better.
I see women as adults with their own minds who can make their own decisions.
And if some women choose to go into the sex trade, that is their right.
Whether it's modeling (the publicly acceptable mild form of this trade, by the way), stripping, webcamming, or full out prostitution.
The only thing I'm concerned about is legally protecting those in that trade.
I'm concerned about human rights violations & abuses.
I'm concerned about sex slavery, sex trafficking, & other types of coercion.
But I don't make the mistake of conflating those real issues with the prostitution trade itself.
Prostitution is not the problem.
Sex slavery & sex trafficking are. Assault & battery are.
Know the difference.
Legalize it & regulate it. That's all you need to do to prevent the collateral damage.
John Lucas