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I read wheaties' reply as being a response to your comment that > Unless/until society finds a way for men and women to have financial parity of some sort, qu

I read wheaties' reply as being a response to your comment that > Unless/until society finds a way for men and women to have financial parity of some sort, quite a lot of women will continue to trade sex for money on some level which seems to suggest that a lack of financial parity is the driving force behind women choosing to trade sex for money. The response was that, even if financial parity were achieved (i.e, if there were as many homeless, and also hugely rich women as there are men), women would still trade sex for money. See http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm which was linked on here recently for another viewpoint on the debate over financial disparity between the sexes, which you may find interesting.

Mz 16y ago
With more financial parity, presumably you would also see more men trading sex for money. Discussions about prostitution generally revolve around a default assumption that women are selling themselves to heterosexual men. This isn't always the case but the assumption speaks volumes about certain large-scale general realities. Thank you for the link. But having briefly perused it, it suggests an assumption that I think men are fundamentally better off than women, which is a) not true and b) irrelevant to the question of whether women would trade sex for money less if they had more financial parity. I took a class on homelessness and volunteered at a homeless shelter for a time. I am abundantly familiar with the fact that homeless men get fewer services than homeless women and, therefore, generally have a harder time of it. I am also a former military wife so I am abundantly familiar with how we send young men off to war to be maimed or killed but are much less likely to do so with young women, who, last I checked, were still barred from serving in combat positions. Anyway, gotta go. :-)
- henrikschroder 16y ago
  >With more financial parity, presumably you would also see more men trading sex for money. There was a study in Sweden a while ago that showed that there were more teenage boys that prostituted themselves than teenage girls, and most of these teenagers were middle class and presumable pretty well off, but they usually did it to get more disposable income to buy stuff to impress their peers.

Mz 16y ago

With more financial parity, presumably you would also see more men trading sex for money. Discussions about prostitution generally revolve around a default assumption that women are selling themselves to heterosexual men. This isn't always the case but the assumption speaks volumes about certain large-scale general realities. Thank you for the link. But having briefly perused it, it suggests an assumption that I think men are fundamentally better off than women, which is a) not true and b) irrelevant to the question of whether women would trade sex for money less if they had more financial parity. I took a class on homelessness and volunteered at a homeless shelter for a time. I am abundantly familiar with the fact that homeless men get fewer services than homeless women and, therefore, generally have a harder time of it. I am also a former military wife so I am abundantly familiar with how we send young men off to war to be maimed or killed but are much less likely to do so with young women, who, last I checked, were still barred from serving in combat positions. Anyway, gotta go. :-)

henrikschroder 16y ago
>With more financial parity, presumably you would also see more men trading sex for money. There was a study in Sweden a while ago that showed that there were more teenage boys that prostituted themselves than teenage girls, and most of these teenagers were middle class and presumable pretty well off, but they usually did it to get more disposable income to buy stuff to impress their peers.