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> It's a lot more difficult to ensure that people are there consensually when brothels are driven underground. What is consent? Early in my taxi driving career
by taxicabjesus 10y ago
> It's a lot more difficult to ensure that people are there consensually when brothels are driven underground.
What is consent? Early in my taxi driving career I had a passenger who was certainly a 'working girl', and she didn't seem to have enjoyed herself much... And she certainly wouldn't have spent the night at that hotel if she wasn't economically stressed.
Usually women who enter that profession do so because they
need the money - not always, but usually. I sent some non-verbal
compassion and understanding her way. Indeed, some of Jesus
of Nazareth's ("who became the Christ") best friends were
working girls.
- http://www.taxiwars.org/2012/03/day-12-working-girl.html http://www.taxiwars.org/2012/03/day-12-working-girl.html
- howeyc 10y agoI know a lot of people who do work they don't enjoy. Does entering a career only for the good pay become bad, and something we must outlaw, or attempt to stop all the time, or just for professions that involves sex-related activities?
- aninhumer 10y agoIf people are sufficiently economically stressed that they'll do things they hate for money, I think that's primarily a problem with the society. It might seem more acute when it's prostitution, rather than cleaning a toilet, but ultimately it's the same problem.
- chefkoch 10y agoIf i didn't need the money i wouldn't work for 50+ hours a week....
- Avshalom 10y agoTo be fair you probably don't ""need"" the money. I know of plenty of women with two+ children working for <$13 an hour.
- tomjen3 10y agoLet's fire all cleaning staff, sewer workers and customer support personnel. Then they will be happy.