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At the risk of Godwin'ing this thread: How is prostitution exploitative? You give out very personal "services" in exchange for the money you desperately need.
by diffeomorphism 7y ago
At the risk of Godwin'ing this thread: How is prostitution exploitative?
You give out very personal "services" in exchange for the money you desperately need. It is perfectly transparent that you are being exploited, but it is not like you have a choice.
If you think that is ridiculous hyperbole: Do you think any poor American actually has the luxury to say "No, I am happy to pay more for food."? I don't understand why you think that filling out surveys is even remotely related to covering basic needs, but if you think it is you must be very privileged.
- TulliusCicero 7y agoComparing grocery store discounts to prostitution is silly. By your reasoning, basically any kind of offer for almost anything can be construed as exploitative, because your working assumption is that a certain class of people is incapable of saying no to any kind of money or discount. Even if this is true, that's an underlying problem with the system, not with any one actor.
- zweep 7y agoWell yes, that is why there are laws for minimum wage and slumlords.
- scarejunba 7y agoThis is an /r/selfawarewolves moment. Maybe prostitution isn't exploitative and in our rush to protect people we are imprisoning them.