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People sign contracts for terrible work conditions all the time, is that a reason to make one specific industry criminal? And this is before mentioning that a c

People sign contracts for terrible work conditions all the time, is that a reason to make one specific industry criminal? And this is before mentioning that a contract that specifies "everything" as the job description renders the industry irrelevant - if an accountant signs an employment contract that includes "everything" in the job description then technically that also includes prostitution, coal mining, deep-sea diving, assassinations etc.

jim-jim-jim 9y ago
>People sign contracts for terrible work conditions all the time, is that a reason to make one specific industry criminal? Yes. Absolutely. Even setting aside the ways in which legitimized prostitution can still be ripe for individual abuses, the message it sends also needs to be taken into account. Prostitution (and pornography) condition society to see women as commodities. That's unacceptable. I expect this comment to go gray with lightning speed.
- saiya-jin 9y ago
  you are projecting your own moral values/philosophy onto everybody claiming that this is right for the society, while in the same time having completely no clue how societies work for thousands of years and what is human nature (and what is not). to give you one single sample, I completely disagree with you but I don't feel the need to state how society should be structured just that I feel comfortable within it. there are countless examples of people/groups with similar self-righteous attitude, and history proved all of them wrong. so yeah, downvote seems appropriate.
- s4vi0r 9y ago
  No, prostitution and pornography condition society to see sex workers (20% of them are Male, and likely a significant portion transgendered as well. Thought it was interesting that you only mentioned women) as workers, which is what they are. The argument against legalized prostitution is ridiculous. Prostitution will always be around - there's no benefit to leaving sex workers to live in the shadows. If you legalize the industry - and not just the workers - you can have at least some amount of control over the health, safety, and quality of workers, employers and clients. By legalizing the industry you also help to normalize sex, which is IMO on way too high of a pedestal in most societies. Sex workers are perceived the way they are largely because of how "sacred" sex is - if you take that power away from sex, then you remove this stigma of sex workers being objectified or somehow less than others because of how they make their living.

jim-jim-jim 9y ago

>People sign contracts for terrible work conditions all the time, is that a reason to make one specific industry criminal? Yes. Absolutely. Even setting aside the ways in which legitimized prostitution can still be ripe for individual abuses, the message it sends also needs to be taken into account. Prostitution (and pornography) condition society to see women as commodities. That's unacceptable. I expect this comment to go gray with lightning speed.

saiya-jin 9y ago
you are projecting your own moral values/philosophy onto everybody claiming that this is right for the society, while in the same time having completely no clue how societies work for thousands of years and what is human nature (and what is not). to give you one single sample, I completely disagree with you but I don't feel the need to state how society should be structured just that I feel comfortable within it. there are countless examples of people/groups with similar self-righteous attitude, and history proved all of them wrong. so yeah, downvote seems appropriate.
s4vi0r 9y ago
No, prostitution and pornography condition society to see sex workers (20% of them are Male, and likely a significant portion transgendered as well. Thought it was interesting that you only mentioned women) as workers, which is what they are. The argument against legalized prostitution is ridiculous. Prostitution will always be around - there's no benefit to leaving sex workers to live in the shadows. If you legalize the industry - and not just the workers - you can have at least some amount of control over the health, safety, and quality of workers, employers and clients. By legalizing the industry you also help to normalize sex, which is IMO on way too high of a pedestal in most societies. Sex workers are perceived the way they are largely because of how "sacred" sex is - if you take that power away from sex, then you remove this stigma of sex workers being objectified or somehow less than others because of how they make their living.