My point of view on prostitution

[Birgitta]

No one thinks they're buying "love" from prostitutes unless they're a sentimental chump or a stalker.

I am a feminism fetishist and thought it was more girly to confuse love with sex

[Teydyn]

You have no clue.

People like you HARM prostitutes. Really. You drive prostitution into the dark, where women cant get help, where they will be exploited.

And when you are finished "praying the gay away", start "praying the prostitution away"...

[trish]

My mother grows vegetables in her garden and sells them in the local market. Strangers walk up and down the stalls trying to decide whose tomatoes are the most appealing. Sometimes my mother will invite them to give her tomatoes a squeeze. Sometimes she'll offer them a taste. She enjoys gardening, but [s]he mostly enjoys the encounters with other people at market. And of course at the end of the day she has [a] profit.

The franchise supermarket on the edge of town also sells tomatoes. Tomatoes and apples and cherries etc. The supermarket buys its fruit and veggies from giant farms all over the country and halfway around the world too. They're harvested by traveling pickers who are paid subsistence wages. Some of the workers are children. The fruit is picked well before it's ripe and the franchise treats them with sprays and radiation to make them appear juicy and delicious. But mostly they've got no sweetness, their skins are tough and they're dry as bone.

Think before you generalize. Not every woman engaged in a small business is being exploited. You have to examine the details of her particular business, why she pursues it, what she gets out of it and what others get out of it.

[needsum]

My mother grows vegetables in her garden and sells them in the local market. Strangers walk up and down the stalls trying to decide whose tomatoes are the most appealing. Sometimes my mother will invite them to give her tomatoes a squeeze. Sometimes she'll offer them a taste. She enjoys gardening, but he mostly enjoys the encounters with other people at market. And of course at the end of the day she has profit.

The franchise supermarket on the edge of town also sells tomatoes. Tomatoes and apples and cherries etc. The supermarket buys its fruit and veggies from giant farms all over the country and halfway around the world too. They're harvested by traveling pickers who are paid subsistence wages. Some of the workers are children. The fruit is picked well before it's ripe and the franchise treats them with sprays and radiation to make them appear juicy and delicious. But mostly they've got no sweetness, their skins are tough and they're dry as bone.

Think before you generalize. Not every woman engaged in a small business is being exploited. You have to examine the details of her particular business, why she pursues it, what she gets out of it and what others get out of it.

Damn, you are amazing. GREAT post

[Dino Velvet]

Escorting is ok, but "street hooking" is sooo wrong

Street hookers are a lot like hitting up a drive-thru. Sometimes I'm really hungry but so filthy and smelly that I don't want to be seen. The drive-thru gets me what I want inside the car and no one forces me to take a shower.

[Nicole Dupre]

I am a feminism fetishist and thought it was more girly to confuse love with sex

You're anything but a woman. You sound like phobun decribing his dream girl.

[BellaBellucci]

I'm just curious if the OP has an equal problem with wage slavery. I know I do. As far as I'm concerned, prostitution is way more empowering than a job at Wal-Mart. I think it's really only illegal because of a) misplaced morality and b) jealousy by the 9-5'er who think we're 'cheating' the system only because they've been brainwashed into believing that getting into the business themselves is immoral. Hey, there's no shame in the game.

Sell widgets, sell pussy, sell dick, sell cars. Who cares? As Felicia said, the environmental impact is nil, the social impact is negligible, and the only negative economic impact is that most of don't pay taxes because we've pretty much been told that we can't.

Of course that changes if you 'legitimize' your business, but then to do that you still have to, at very least, bend the truth about what it is that you're doing. I did that for years when I owned my agency but all it did was put me on their radar. The only reason the government won't step in and do the right thing on this is because they don't want to be seen as complicit, but I wonder how the feds feel about taking tax money from brothels in Nevada, the only businesses in the country that explicitly provide prostitution.

I am a feminism fetishist and thought it was more girly to confuse love with sex

Ahh, yeah. Because most people consider sex in a loving relationship to be a fetish. You can find DVDs of such activity at any porn store right between 'shemale' and 'golden showers.'

~BB~

[Birgitta]

You're anything but a woman. You sound like phobun decribing his dream girl.

Thats allright, i am under the impression that phobun is one of the cool guys here but where is he ?

[Bobby Domino]

Spot on. Well said. if we all could be so eloquent. Cheers!!!

My mother grows vegetables in her garden and sells them in the local market. Strangers walk up and down the stalls trying to decide whose tomatoes are the most appealing. Sometimes my mother will invite them to give her tomatoes a squeeze. Sometimes she'll offer them a taste. She enjoys gardening, but [s]he mostly enjoys the encounters with other people at market. And of course at the end of the day she has [a] profit.

The franchise supermarket on the edge of town also sells tomatoes. Tomatoes and apples and cherries etc. The supermarket buys its fruit and veggies from giant farms all over the country and halfway around the world too. They're harvested by traveling pickers who are paid subsistence wages. Some of the workers are children. The fruit is picked well before it's ripe and the franchise treats them with sprays and radiation to make them appear juicy and delicious. But mostly they've got no sweetness, their skins are tough and they're dry as bone.

Think before you generalize. Not every woman engaged in a small business is being exploited. You have to examine the details of her particular business, why she pursues it, what she gets out of it and what others get out of it.

[dbev]

I'm just curious if the OP has an equal problem with wage slavery. I know I do. As far as I'm concerned, prostitution is way more empowering than a job at Wal-Mart. I think it's really only illegal because of a) misplaced morality and b) jealousy by the 9-5'er who think we're 'cheating' the system only because they've been brainwashed into believing that getting into the business themselves is immoral. Hey, there's no shame in the game.

I already wrote that is, I do have an issue with any forms of exploitation.

Sell widgets, sell pussy, sell dick, sell cars. Who cares? As Felicia said, the environmental impact is nil, the social impact is negligible, and the only negative economic impact is that most of don't pay taxes because we've pretty much been told that we can't.

You know that is not the same.

Of course that changes if you 'legitimize' your business, but then to do that you still have to, at very least, bend the truth about what it is that you're doing. I did that for years when I owned my agency but all it did was put me on their radar. The only reason the government won't step in and do the right thing on this is because they don't want to be seen as complicit, but I wonder how the feds feel about taking tax money from brothels in Nevada, the only businesses in the country that explicitly provide prostitution.

Who knows.

Read about State owned brothels in Italy (they were shut down in 195, they were prisons with slaves.

Ahh, yeah. Because most people consider sex in a loving relationship to be a fetish. You can find DVDs of such activity at any porn store right between 'shemale' and 'golden showers.'
~BB~

I didn't get this one

In any case:

1. I strongly oppose criminalizing prostitutes;
2. I only think that clients must be firstly imprisoned even is they engage in using the body of a "consenting" adult, and then cured;
3. I strongly suggest everyone to value themselves and find a legally consenting partner, even for casual sex, there are plenty of occasions;
4. I think that chastity is not natural.

Some things should not be on the market for sale... because they are sold for money and we all know who is the owner of our money (central banks) and why we fight for survival while some people are extremely rich (the issue the money on behalf of States, they sell it to us, we pay it with our debt).