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For me, I am looking forward to advances in robotics and AI over the coming decades to help meet needs like this. Because, although there are certainly some wo

by ilaksh 6y ago

For me, I am looking forward to advances in robotics and AI over the coming decades to help meet needs like this. Because, although there are certainly some women (and men) who seem to adjust to this type of work, and certainly the brutal economic realities make it problematic to deny the option of sex work.. my impression is that it is usually damaging socially and psychologically to those in the field. So I view the prevalence of prostitution largely as a symptom of economic deficiency. I'm not saying that this particular effort isn't nobel in a way or that this work should be illegal. But I don't think it's a black and white issue the way some people seem to think. It's not just a matter of glorious freedom versus religious prudishness or something like that. Soldiers need not just sex but true intimacy. It's really questionable whether that can truly be provided on a for-hire basis. And also hard to believe that constantly simulating intimacy with different men does not take a toll on a person's psyche.

airhead969 6y ago
You can't force intimacy, but you can foster it by facilitating dating opportunities. I guess there could be subsidized RGFE sexual-emotional prostitution where someone visits and acts as therapist, companion, and such. I wouldn't judge, moralize, or worry about what consenting adults choose to do. These sort of Big Mother vague concerns are often the slippery-slopes used to rationalize telling people what they can and can't do.
- ilaksh 6y ago
  It's not about telling people what they can or can't do. But yes in fact we should worry when prostitution increases because it correlates with destitution and desperation.
  - airhead969 6y ago
    That's a sweeping, negative generalization and suggests women don't have a choice. There are millionaire prostitutes who are entrepreneurs. Some do it to pay for college and other expenses when service worker jobs pay nothing. Looking down on sex workers from a view of pity and paternalism is a problem.

by ilaksh 6y ago

airhead969 6y ago

You can't force intimacy, but you can foster it by facilitating dating opportunities. I guess there could be subsidized RGFE sexual-emotional prostitution where someone visits and acts as therapist, companion, and such. I wouldn't judge, moralize, or worry about what consenting adults choose to do. These sort of Big Mother vague concerns are often the slippery-slopes used to rationalize telling people what they can and can't do.

ilaksh 6y ago
It's not about telling people what they can or can't do. But yes in fact we should worry when prostitution increases because it correlates with destitution and desperation.
- airhead969 6y ago
  That's a sweeping, negative generalization and suggests women don't have a choice. There are millionaire prostitutes who are entrepreneurs. Some do it to pay for college and other expenses when service worker jobs pay nothing. Looking down on sex workers from a view of pity and paternalism is a problem.