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For you to bring child prostitution into this I believe you did not read the article. >There are prostitutes because there's a market for sex There is a marke

by marquis 15y ago

For you to bring child prostitution into this I believe you did not read the article. >There are prostitutes because there's a market for sex There is a market for sex because women have been legal chattel for centuries, wherein women are traded as objects primarily for the purposes of empowering a certain view of the world. For the record: many organisations specializing in trafficking relief admit that women are equally, if in some cases more at fault, in forcing other women into the prostitution market. I am in no way attempting to blame men for a difficult, millennia-long problem, I just refuse to accept the status-quo while it causes genuine and significant damage.

dpark 15y ago
I did read the article. For you to believe that child prostitution is not a part of a culture of human trafficking and inherited prostitution make me think you are a bit naive. I would expect that many of the women are prostituting themselves by the age of 15, if not years earlier. Why are we still discussing this? There are few people in western nations who believe that human trafficking of any kind is acceptable, nor would many say that inherited prostitution is acceptable. These issues are very much removed from the question of whether showing a woman's cleavage is sexist, or misogynist, or objectifies women. A woman showing cleavage in a photo is related to human sex trafficking in the same way that a man doing manual labor is related to slavery.
- marquis 15y ago
  I see plenty of connections in both of those things.
  - dpark 15y ago
    Yes, there is an extremely tenuous connection. That's why I made the comparison. However, we don't publicly condemn someone who posts a picture of a man doing manual labor, accuse them of objectifying men, or attempt to tie their use to the picture to the slavery. On the other hand, apparently we do publicly condemn someone for posting a picture of a woman with cleavage, accuse them of objectifying women, and attempt to tie their use of the picture to human sex trafficking. It's hard for me to understand why you can't see the ridiculousness of this. Even if you believe that the use of the picture was inappropriate or sexist, it is unrelated to human sex trafficking.

by marquis 15y ago

dpark 15y ago

I did read the article. For you to believe that child prostitution is not a part of a culture of human trafficking and inherited prostitution make me think you are a bit naive. I would expect that many of the women are prostituting themselves by the age of 15, if not years earlier. Why are we still discussing this? There are few people in western nations who believe that human trafficking of any kind is acceptable, nor would many say that inherited prostitution is acceptable. These issues are very much removed from the question of whether showing a woman's cleavage is sexist, or misogynist, or objectifies women. A woman showing cleavage in a photo is related to human sex trafficking in the same way that a man doing manual labor is related to slavery.

marquis 15y ago
I see plenty of connections in both of those things.
- dpark 15y ago
  Yes, there is an extremely tenuous connection. That's why I made the comparison. However, we don't publicly condemn someone who posts a picture of a man doing manual labor, accuse them of objectifying men, or attempt to tie their use to the picture to the slavery. On the other hand, apparently we do publicly condemn someone for posting a picture of a woman with cleavage, accuse them of objectifying women, and attempt to tie their use of the picture to human sex trafficking. It's hard for me to understand why you can't see the ridiculousness of this. Even if you believe that the use of the picture was inappropriate or sexist, it is unrelated to human sex trafficking.