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Old 03-27-2012, 06:29 AM   #18
Acharis
 
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Originally Posted by Alan View Post
Your boyfriend is not thinking things through, and if past experience is any help and he's making the same arguments, then he's stupidly believing that this issue is just a matter of hypotheticals. That the decision is between "prostitution yay or nay" in present society and that we shouldn't care of the implications.
Nevermind that legalized prostitution increases human trafficking. Nevermind that in today's society legalizing prostitution still presumes that women are a commodity to be bought, used, and abused.
Oh wow, someone agrees with me. I was expecting to be called a feminazi.

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Originally Posted by Alan View Post
Nevermind that until there's a strong movement for sex workers' rights there's little empowering in the business of prostitution save for those who entered it from an already privileged position and made a conscious decision of becoming prostitutes, or escorts in this scenario.
Amen. The privileged people who decide to do s** work and have the means to get out are very visible, because they're held up and glamorised. But they don't represent the entire industry.



Must be blocking the dreaded S word. Sneakily get yourself a router if you won't get caught? (Not entirely sure how to get round a block.)


I'm sorry to hear that you and your boyfriend have such different opinions Crimson. I got to know a man who often made similar comments and he got quite offensive in them at times... It didn't work out.

I hope your boy does think through the implications of what he's saying. I find often men don't want to hear about it when you call a comment out... a few will take it on board.
Fortunately my best guy friend understands why I don't like **** jokes, so they are out there!



Interesting link, and I agree that people with disabilities have as much of a capacity for eroticism and affection as non-disabled people... but I have to disagree with the assumption that s** workers are a necessity for the acceptance of that fact.

I wish these groups would stop screaming, and work on reducing the myths of asexuality or unattractiveness in disability in ways that don't throw others under the bus. Appliances are available which are usable by people with limited mobility, and carers do sometimes assist in their use.



Anyway these advocates assume people with disabilities don't otherwise have s** or relationships.

Funny story - at the last goth club I went to one of the ladies was there in a wheelchair, and she asked my friend to grab her something out of her bag. Friend reaches in to oblige - and pulls out a box of condoms.
Bitch! She was getting more than either of us!
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