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Gosh, that was judgemental. I suppose it was intended to be an opinion piece, but it took prostitution to be wrong a priori, with no discussion or justification
by zacharyvoase 15y ago
Gosh, that was judgemental. I suppose it was intended to be an opinion piece, but it took prostitution to be wrong a priori, with no discussion or justification of this premise. Bandying about words like ‘exploitation’ is, frankly, cheap. The phrase “exploiting young women and enticing men to have extramarital affairs” reveals several of the author’s strong inner biases (to wit, that women are weak and men are evil). If anything, I'd say the author himself demonstrates ‘the dark side of an MIT brain’.
On a more general note, where are the articles discussing the long-term effect of prostitution on psychology? For example, do students who sell sex at college go on to be less or more successful than their cohort? Do they form longer-lasting or more volatile relationships later in life? Those are the articles I’d like to read.
- pyre 15y agoI'd also like to see the correlation between prior sexual abuse and selling sex at college. I would assume that those who were abused may be more likely to do so, but by how much? Is the group of students that do this 99% abused (1% not) or is it closer to something like 60/40?
- zacharyvoase 15y agoJust out of interest, why would you make that assumption?
- loup-vaillant 15y agoBecause others did: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution#Consent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution#Consent Studies also show that most women in prostitution, including those working for escort services, have been sexually abused as children.[link]
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- hyperbovine 15y agoI completely agree with his assumption based on my PhD in Loveline.
- joe_the_user 15y agoI doubt the correlation is as high as the correlation with ... needing money. And while one might say there are always college students needing money, my impression is skyrocketing tuitions combined with an ethos of "sell anything you can to succeed" makes this site very much "of the now"...
- klbarry 15y agoThank you for succinctly expressing my own thoughts and anger on the matter.