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No, it's not based in any other morality than having bodily autonomy free from exploitation. If you want to disambiguate it from sex, consider whether someone
by empthought 10y ago
No, it's not based in any other morality than having bodily autonomy free from exploitation.
If you want to disambiguate it from sex, consider whether someone should be able to sell (and thus another person to buy) an organ.
Then consider that the demand for purchasing sex massively outstrips the demand for purchasing organs.
- vertex-four 10y agoSelling an organ implies the loss of something necessary for a full life. Not having an organ results in shortened lifespan and lower quality of life. If you could grow back the organ in a matter of seconds, we wouldn't have an issue with it. It'd be sore and likely physically demanding, but so's a lot of work. Selling sex doesn't imply the loss of anything.
- empthought 10y ago> Selling sex doesn't imply the loss of anything. Literally thousands upon thousands of current and former prostitutes disagree.
- vertex-four 10y agoAnd literally thousands and thousands of current and former sex workers agree. They have conferences, and industry groups, they lobby Governments, they have systems by which they can ensure the safety of themselves and each other and pick out their own clients. This isn't the situation of somebody who was trafficked half-way across the world and forced into sex slavery. The solution is not to make sex work illegal, or to make seeking it illegal. It's to help the people who don't want to be performing sex work. It's to give them food, and shelter, and training to re-enter the job market. But that's expensive, and it's difficult to explain to people with Christian moralities about sex why you'd allow people to perform sex work if they wanted to.