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Old 10-01-2011, 12:25 PM   #29
Elystan
 
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See? This is why I didn't participate in this thread. It's too forced, and just like in the Magick thread you're not really looking for a discussion; you just want to flaunt your half-assed and half-thought-out opinions without having to defend them.
Kid, you got dozens of members that actively participate in the LGBT and feminist movements, a nice number that actually pursued feminism as an academic field, and at least two members who have actively participated in the fight for sex workers rights. Do you really feel like you're the shit?
What's my half-thought-out opinion, that prostitution can be seen as empowering? It's an argument I've heard before, and never seen satisfactorily explored. If there are so many people here with well thought out opinions, I would like to hear them, particularly with regards to prostitution as a choice, as I think we can take it as a given that being forced into it cannot be empowering.

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Also, "money equals power, therefore prostitutes are powerful".
Let's leave out the fact that apparently you have never heard the word 'pimp'.
Seriously? You're going to use that in a forum full with socialists?

Do all prostitutes have pimps? Does socialism not acknowledge that capitalism is the current state of the world? Is money not power in our society?
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