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Doesn't that depend on how you define economic duress? If we are talking about voluntary prostitution in a country with a welfare state then does it count as co
by jiggy2011 12y ago
Doesn't that depend on how you define economic duress?
If we are talking about voluntary prostitution in a country with a welfare state then does it count as coercion if the person chooses prostitution over a minimum wage job because it pays better?
- rayiner 12y ago> If we are talking about voluntary prostitution in a country with a welfare state then does it count as coercion if the person chooses prostitution over a minimum wage job because it pays better? Here's an interesting question for you: is the public entitled to make prostitution illegal,[1] on the basis that they don't like the sociological implications of selling sex becoming an alternative to getting a minimum wage job? I think they are quite entitled to do that. [1] Though I prefer how Sweden does it: to make buy sex illegal, but not selling it.
- quantized 12y agoAny group of people is entitled to do anything, unless a bigger group of people can force their hand in the opposite direction. That's a pointless question.
- jiggy2011 12y agoThat really depends on how libertarian you are and whether you believe that by definition selling sexual services for money will always make somebody worse off than being poor.
- rayiner 12y agoIt doesn't have to make the prostitute always worse off, or worse off at all. Many other people might be impacted as a result of the changes in social dynamic from turning sex into a commodity.
- jiggy2011 12y agoWould it necessarily have any impact outside of the people engaging in it? It won't turn all sex into a commodity.
- icebraining 12y agoThat would be a good argument if criminalizing prostitution made it go away, but only a very foolish person would believe this to be the case.
- heylefty 12y agoEverything in the universe is impacted by everything else that happens. That's a useless tautology.
- baddox 12y agoEven if there is no welfare state or any form of social safety net, it's still better to have the choice between prostitution and starving to death than for starving to death to be the only possible outcome.