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Old 03-27-2012, 12:35 AM   #16
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This reminds me too much of the debate Elystan mad on prostitution.
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.
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.

In his mind the only other side to legalizing prostitution is 'logically' to prohibit it (is he a libertarian by any chance?) so there's never any real critique of modern values in regards to women, sex, and prostitution.
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