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It's far more complicated than that, there's a big division in feminists over whether women should have the choice, or whether it's inherently exploitative by m
by mattmanser 8y ago
It's far more complicated than that, there's a big division in feminists over whether women should have the choice, or whether it's inherently exploitative by men.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoThis presumes that only women can be prostitutes and only men can be clients, among other things.
- mattmanser 8y agoI wasn't even taking a side, merely explaining to the parent that there's two sides among feminists. Please don't put words in my mouth, I was presuming nothing.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoThere was no intent to put words in your mouth and I wasn't suggesting the presumption originates with you.
- coldtea 8y agoDoesn't have to "presume". Historically and globally that has overwhelmingly been the case.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoIsn't the point of feminism to change things so that historical trends concerning gendered outcomes change? If you assume that the past trends are set in stone and cannot change, then policy proposals sound either pointless or like they will reinforce the status quo rather than rewrite things.
- coldtea 8y agoNo, I assume that certain past trends are based on things more than oppression, e.g. gender differences.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoOther than men generally having more money than women, what gender difference do you attribute this situation to? What innate quality is there that trumps financial inequality for purposes of explaining who purchases sexual services and who sells them?
- coldtea 8y agoThe evolutionary trait that has a male mammal just ejaculate whenever they can with ease, whereas a female mammal has to wait for the appropriate period to conceive and then pass several months to give birth and carefully feed milk and raise the child. Which makes the former wanting to play around as much as possible, while the latter not so much so. Man, for similar reasons (and the male of the species in most such species) is selected, where woman selects. It's easier for a man to be rejected by potential mates, than the opposite. Most of our urges are not rationally defined by us (or even our species alone) -- they are millions of years old.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoThere is more to human female sexuality than pair bonding and pregnancy. Your understanding of human sexuality and mine are so not on the same page, they aren't even in the same book.