My point of view on prostitution

[hippifried]

My point of view on prostitution is, preferably, up close.

That said, I can't buy this "everybody's a victim" routine. Prostitution serves a social need. I'm sure there's loads of problems within the industry, & organized crime is probably the biggest one. If people insist on keeping prostitution criminalized, & therefore a black market enterprize, criminals will continue to control the industry. Reap what you sow.

This isn't an enforcement issue. It's just the natural consequence of arbitrary rules that that have no basis in the moral code, so that they get ignored. The more you try to ehforce the ban, the deeper it gets pushed underground, where there's no control at all. The problem isn't the prostitutes. The problem isn't the clientelle. The problem isn't even the criminals who control so much of the industry, do all these heinous things that the new book claims. The problem is the arbitrary ban that begs the criminal element to take control of the industry.

Sex providers aren't going away & neither are their clients. It's a primal urge.

[Prospero]

I hadn't read Needsum's posting when I responded but agree with Ed that he summed it up in a better and more expansive way than i did. I spoke of the economic aspect of it. But Needsum touched on the distinct sets of needs that are being met on both sides. This really should be considered. Yes, selling your body for sex can be seen to be degrading. It can also be argued that paying for sex is also degraded. There are plenty here who boast that they've never paid and never will etc. But others who maybe can't get that sexual desire satisfied in other ways. And others who perhaps have had an awareness of distinct sexual needs and desires within themselves awaken after they've committed themselves to a life and relationship that no longer fully satisifies what they now know to be their own sexual needs.

Ask many of the transgendered ladies here about it and they might respond with an argument that is somewhat different. They may talk about empowerment. They might tell you that being paid for sex makes them feel strong and in control and, in this corner of the gender spectrum, respected and even admired in a way that society in its wider sense does not offer.

Yes it is true some might meet clients whose seuxality and/or physicality and attitudes disgust them - men who'd they'd not look at twice in a bar or a social context. Plenty of girls here will talk about the cockhounds who they despise and who they'd never date in the wider outside world.

But I can genuinely say that many I've met and many that others here talk about are either brilliant actresses or do seem to genuinely enjoy both the sex and the wider aspect of the encounter. It's fun for them AND it makes them good money which, for many, may well be stored for a future career and also for the cost of the surgery and other elements of an eventual transition.

I think your puritanical take is based upon a myth of the escort as pure victim and nothing else. There are plenty of victims to be sure. We hear about them in the press.

But the truth and the full picture is far more complex.

[JamieCoxx]

I'm a prostitute. This guy has his head up his ass. I felt like a victim working at Pizza Hut. 5 years on as a hooker I'm the most empowered, happy and healthy I've been in my life! Guy is a troll.

If you really care about anyone's opinion about prostitution, don't listen to some schmuck with a white knight complex, go straight to the source. ASK A PROSTITUTE. You'll hear good stories, you'll here bad stories just like you would in any other profession. But at least you'd get TRUE stories.

[Silcc69]

Troll or not these numbers are simply off the charts. 200 million dollars in tax payers money wasted then 58 billion dollar industry!? No wonder this country tanking economically.

[Nicole Dupre]

[Nicole Dupre]

I, like, blame society for hookers. Women should just control everything in the world, and sooner or later all of you guys would get some. But you 'alpha males' are basically bullies. It'll never work. It's 'hookers or nothing'.

And what's your rush to get laid anyway? Just because you could get hit by lightning tomorrow, and never have had the sexual experiences you crave the most, why actually do anything about it? Just jerk off. Like, why start living now?

[jamiecoxxdotcom]

I wonder if this guy owns name brand clothing, or really name brand anything made over seas... I want to hear about his concern with human suffering on that point.

Funny how his care for human suffering is focused on prostitution/sex when suffering is such a universal condition.

It's real simple... I see this kind of thing from time to time. The guy has a strange complex - you know that normal sense of "my territory" you get when you're in a relationship? This guy's sense of that is all out of whack and applies to everyone he'd ever be interested in putting his penis in. It's a really weird form of misplaced jealousy. Way easy to see through. No sense of proportion, shows signs of possible arrested development.

[Devilboy]

Charlie Sheen's thoughts with regards to prostitution, "I'm not paying them for sex....I am paying them to leave..."

[tsparisangelline]

Your paying to watch porn not much of a difference.

Plus we don't get used for hours at a time either lmfao.

[dbev]

I wonder if this guy owns name brand clothing, or really name brand anything made over seas... I want to hear about his concern with human suffering on that point.

Funny how his care for human suffering is focused on prostitution/sex when suffering is such a universal condition.

It's real simple... I see this kind of thing from time to time. The guy has a strange complex - you know that normal sense of "my territory" you get when you're in a relationship? This guy's sense of that is all out of whack and applies to everyone he'd ever be interested in putting his penis in. It's a really weird form of misplaced jealousy. Way easy to see through. No sense of proportion, shows signs of possible arrested development.

Nice question thanks!

No, I don't have anything produced by MNCs exploiting labour. I'm trying to be coherent.

I've done some research on my own, including "hidden camera" videos of clients and prostitutes and other videos available on the net (see Big Sister videos).

I've read books written by prostitutes, former prostitutes and social workers.

And my concern on prostitution is because it's the best example of why our civilization is doomed.

Evertyhing else is self-denial.

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