5 ms·
I don't agree with this particular law, but "money exchanges hands, so it's okay" isn't an excuse for prostitution. We can build a society where women prosper w
by jim-jim-jim 9y ago
I don't agree with this particular law, but "money exchanges hands, so it's okay" isn't an excuse for prostitution. We can build a society where women prosper without being subjected to institutional rape.
- aaomidi 9y agoI don't apply the same logic other places. But banning places from having conversations about how to do it safely is a stupid idea and is going to end with more people hurt. This law benefits no one. If someone is having to resort to prostitution they will, just without the support network they need.
- jim-jim-jim 9y agoThere's definitely value in an Erowid type site that contains legal/health info related to prostitution without serving as a venue for the practice itself. > If someone is having to resort to prostitution they will, just without the support network they need. That's why I'm generally in favor of what has been called the "Nordic Model," which decriminalizes selling sex and keeps workers in touch with public services, but makes it illegal to operate a brothel and purchase sex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Sweden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Sweden
- crankylinuxuser 9y agoRape is just yet another coerced and forced work for subsistence. Aside being 'sex', there's not much difference between other types of work that one is required to do to make money and eat and live in a shelter. At the end, you're mentally and physically tired. And you used a good chunk of your day being productive for someone else so they can make even more money on that.
- eanzenberg 9y agoProstitution is rape now? Hmm lol..
- jim-jim-jim 9y agoIf somebody wouldn't have sex with you of their own volition, but is coerced into doing so for need of food and shelter, then how can it be consensual?
- Teever 9y agoSo I guess we can reduce any job that someone does for a living down to slavery now?
- jim-jim-jim 9y agoAs a socialist I think this could be said about a lot of labor under capitalism. Yes.
- Teever 9y agoThis mentality does a disservice to people who are actually living in slavery.
- realusername 9y agoWhy exactly? There's different degrees of slavery and independence, it's not black and white. Poor people don't really have a choice with their lives, they do whatever people command to them so they can just to get enough to get food.
- freehunter 9y agoSome black slaves in the US South got to live in the house, eat and drink with their masters, whip other slaves, and maybe even got an education. They lived in luxury compared to the field workers. They were still slaves.
- frankc 9y agoCould the slaves quit their jobs? This whole sub-thread is completely preposterous.