Zig Forums's thoughts on prostitution? I'm not very educated on the issue but here are my two cents.
I think the liberal/libertarian argument that it is a contract between two consenting adults and just as valid as any other kind of (service) work would be somewhat valid if the average prostitute was someone that wasn't poor or in any economic trouble, wasn't coerced or anything like that, and just one day realized that he/she loves sex and has a special talent for giving blowjobs or something. Then I could at least entertain the argument that blowjobs should be treated the same way as massages or any other service.
But in reality, prostitutes are often poor and desperate, are coerced and manipulated, might have addiction issues, etc. It's just horrible all around, and allowing it would be to legitimize the attitude that if you have the money, (poor) women's bodies are nothing but commodities for you to buy and use however you like. For some reason, when it comes to sex, it instinctively feels more like some poor person selling their kidney (total commodification of the body) in order to afford food, rather than someone providing a service like giving massages.
I think the swedish approach, of going after people who purchase sex and not the prostitutes themselves, seems like a good idea.
You could say the same thing about workers' bodies in virtually any profession, although it's especially applicable to fields like construction.
It's called petit bourgeois respectability and prudishness.
You mean going after impoverished and desperate men instead of impoverished and desperate women? Sure, great approach.
Grayson Murphy
If it's proven most people who go to prostitutes have as about as much money as the prostitutes sure.
Lincoln Stewart
Not necessarily. That could be true, but I'm only maintaining that law enforcement is going to fall squarely on the more impoverished because the police aren't going to go after the escort services the wealthy use and, even if they did, the wealthy have enough money to escape any serious ramifications, while the poor can't. You're basically siccing the cops on men who can't afford it instead of women who can't afford it. This might be the liberal or socdem idea of progress, although no one on the left should see it that way.
support sex workers as workers. don't support the sex industry
MADE BY NO WORK IS CONSENSUAL GANG
Jordan Cruz
prostitution is just marriage without the veil
Ryan Sullivan
I'm opposed to it on a purely opportunistic basis. If there was widespread irrational opposition to the commodification of apple sauce, I'd be for banning the sale of apple sauce. The assimilation of all spheres of human existence and endeavor by the market must be resisted by all means.
