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> "my body, my choice" "consenting adults" -- all that goes out the window when it's sex for cash? it makes no sense. This is true, only if individuals have a
by kartan 9y ago
> "my body, my choice" "consenting adults" -- all that goes out the window when it's sex for cash? it makes no sense.
This is true, only if individuals have a good education, job opportunities, a broad enough safety net, etc.
Otherwise, you are just pushing abused women or women with no resources to submit to sexual servitude.
When you have a high correlation between prostitution and poverty, you are just realizing that that choice was never there.
A good approach is to punish clients instead of prostitutes. This way you help to shift power balance and protect prostitutes that denounce abuse.
There is no freedom without a possibility of choice.
- jdavis703 9y agoBy that reasoning all dangerous jobs should be off limits to poor people. Young people shouldn't be able to register for military service (especially during wars when "bonuses" are high). Poor people shouldn't be allowed to work as garbage collectors (garbage collectors have a higher fatality rate than law enforcement). The list could go on...
- z0r 9y agoThere are degrees of exploitation and levels of compulsion throughout all society. This doesn't mean that people have to be either okay with all exploitation and compulsion or none at all.
- mortenlarsen 9y agoI would like to thank both you, and the parent for adding valuable points of views in a complicated debate in a concise and civil manner. I had had an "I agree" and "On the other hand" moment. For me this illustrated the complexity of the topic. There is no easy answer, and all who say it is simple, are probably wrong.
- jdavis703 9y agoThat's a fair point. There are even legal (and what should be relatively safe) career choices that can be subject to compulsion. For example meat packers have been documented to pressure workers with questionable immigration statuses in to low pay, high risk jobs [0]. When a meat packer does it we punish the meat packer, not the industry. When a trafficker does it, the entire industry gets painted with the same brush. [0] Fast Food Nation (I think it's written about in Chapter 8 "The Most Dangerous Job").
- commandlinefan 9y ago> By that reasoning all dangerous jobs should be off limits to poor people Or any other job, really.
- tomp 9y ago> A good approach is to punish clients instead of prostitutes. This way you help to shift power balance and protect prostitutes that denounce abuse. How would this help poor women?