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In reply to the discussion: What are the main reasons men pay for sex? [View all]BainsBane
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(I am writing this in the third person even though it is in response to Little Blue because he has made clear repeatedly he refuses to read my posts. If he kept that promise, I would be very happy. Instead, he glances at them and then makes snide comments to others about my posts without actually engaging with anything I have written. For that reason it makes most sense to write this post in the third person).
When I pointed out the legalization of prostitution is a state and local issue and that he could work to legalize it in his own community, he refused. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025346527#post69 http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025346527#post71
He doesn't want it in his community. Instead, he insisted it should be made legal on a "national level." (One wonders what theory of interstate commerce would apply to a federal law requiring that prostitution be legal and how that wouldn't violate the 10th Amendment? He had no response to a previous query about what legal basis he imagined could possibly achieve such an end. Could it be possible he imagines a constitutional amendment legalizing prostitution? Or would repeal of the 13th Amendment suffice?) Instead, the emphasis is of course on how to reintroduce it into poor neighborhoods for men of means to come exploit a trade they want no where near their own communities.
Instead we have constant outrage that I dare mention the lives of sex workers, millions of whom are underage, or the communities affected by prostitution, from the economic blight that accompanies the sex trade to the predatory activity by Johns on children living in those areas. How dare I mention real human beings? Don't I know the only people that matter in this scenario are men who engage in capitalist consumption? So all this outrage that I mention the existence of human beings he insists are inconsequential have absolutely no impact on whether or not prostitution is made legal in his or any other community other than my own. He and others could go to their City Council or County Board of Commissioners any time and propose that the sex trade be legalized. Yet they do not. Instead, Little Blue is more focused on my audacity in mentioning the lives of women, girls, boys, and teens caught up in the sex trade. Why I wonder? Why is it so much more important to denounce the lives of human beings like these? http://www.democraticunderground.com/125548981
If the goal is to legalize prostitution, why worry about what I write at all?