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Old 09-30-2011, 02:55 AM   #1
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Sex industry

What are y'alls views on it? Empowering? Degrading? That depends? Depends on what?
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Old 09-30-2011, 03:38 AM   #2
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For who - prostitutes? Strippers? Fetish porn production companies? The people who stick the rotating balls on fancy dildos? 'Cause that's a big question.
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Old 09-30-2011, 03:48 AM   #3
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For who - prostitutes? Strippers? Fetish porn production companies? The people who stick the rotating balls on fancy dildos? 'Cause that's a big question.
Let's go with prostitutes
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The way that prostitution exists in our society makes me terribly sad. I think one would have to be slightly sick to find that sort of desperation arousing.

I'm totally okay with the people who stick the rotating balls on fancy dildos, though. I feel like they're probably all right.
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Old 09-30-2011, 06:14 AM   #5
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Didn't we already cover this in the Sexuality thread?
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I went to a panel on sex work a few months ago, it was five women, from a pro-legalization scholar, an Aboriginal rights activist, an Asian rights activist, a queer woman sex worker and a woman from a harm reduction charity.

The term "sex work" was used to say "most sex workers are empowered by their work and choose it", which pissed me off. "Sex work" includes a lot of people, like Apathy said, and it wasn't specifically about prostitutes. The two rights activists pointed out the overwhelming racist nature of prostitution in Canada and called for the Nordic model of legalization, and the harm reduction people were talking about how they meet prostitutes where they are, provide clean needles, safety tips, etc. So there was a few white people telling the racialized women that they were wrong and patronizing.

It rubbed me the wrong way, there definitely is privilege and hierarchy even in the sex industry. If a white escort is putting herself through college with her pay, its something quite different than an Asian girl being trafficked or an Aboriginal woman on the streets with few options.

I hope there's a day where it isn't degrading, but I think people are duped if they think its a position of power.
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Old 09-30-2011, 11:58 AM   #7
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Didn't we already cover this in the Sexuality thread?
Where's that thread?

Posting before I look
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Old 09-30-2011, 12:06 PM   #8
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The way that prostitution exists in our society makes me terribly sad. I think one would have to be slightly sick to find that sort of desperation arousing.

I'm totally okay with the people who stick the rotating balls on fancy dildos, though. I feel like they're probably all right.
Who's not all right, the prostitute or the person hiring the prostitute? What if it's not done out of desperation? What if it's a white (read: privileged) girl and she isn't putting herself through college?
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Old 10-01-2011, 05:26 AM   #10
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So I'm sure we can agree that human trafficking is a form of slavery and to be condemned as such. But what about prostitution itself? Where the coercion factor is no greater than economic coercion to get a job?

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I hope there's a day where it isn't degrading, but I think people are duped if they think its a position of power.
Are you meaning to imply here that prostitution would be a 'good' for society? When you say 'I hope it isn't degrading' I interpret that as 'I hope the stigma vanishes'.

Money is power, shouldn't the ability to earn a months wages in a few hours therefore be empowering?
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Money is power, shouldn't the ability to earn a months wages in a few hours therefore be empowering?
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Old 10-01-2011, 06:33 AM   #12
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Cute, but fault my logic
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Just because you can rationalize doesn't make you rational.

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Heh. I love your emoticons, dude.
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Cute, but fault my logic
Your logic is faulty in that you are attempting to apply a theory you seem to have developed without research or experience to a real-life scenario. And doing it poorly.
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Your logic is faulty in that you are attempting to apply a theory you seem to have developed without research or experience to a real-life scenario. And doing it poorly.
Priceless.

You haven't addressed any argument at all with this post.
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Priceless.

You haven't addressed any argument at all with this post.
Nah, she totally won this one. You're just being stubborn. Prostitution is, at best, a false sense of 'empowerment'. I've never known a prostitute irl, but I've known strippers. I don't know if it's the majority, but the ones *I* knew got into as a false sense of empower after they were ***** or sexually abused. It didn't empower them. It just made them think that most men are disgusting creeps.

Money doesn't wash the feeling of disgust from your skin. It just buys the drugs that make that line of work easier to do.
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Nah, she totally won this one. You're just being stubborn. Prostitution is, at best, a false sense of 'empowerment'. I've never known a prostitute irl, but I've known strippers. I don't know if it's the majority, but the ones *I* knew got into as a false sense of empower after they were ***** or sexually abused. It didn't empower them. It just made them think that most men are disgusting creeps.
So really she owned you with that post
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You make no sense....this thread wasn't just about prostitution last I checked...
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You make no sense....this thread wasn't just about prostitution last I checked...
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Priceless.

You haven't addressed any argument at all with this post.
I'm not interested in engaging with you on the topic. So far you haven't said anything to indicate you know enough about the situation to make it an interesting or productive conversation. I responded to your request for someone to point out why your logic is bad. That doesn't mean I'm interested in discussing something I've actually made an effort to learn about with someone who clearly hasn't.
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3rd post down
Title of the thread is 'sex industry'. That would entail strippers, as well.
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Old 10-01-2011, 07:35 AM   #23
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C'mon, I'm waiting for your refutation of my superior knowledge.....

No? Can't do it? That's what I thought.


I have Math homework to do, but I'll check back later to see what you've come up with.
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Title of the thread is 'sex industry'. That would entail strippers, as well.
Changed my mind
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Ah, mah gawd, son! That is a lame as shit answer!

I r disappoint.
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