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Exactly, johns should be penalized. We sanction entire countries because of the conditions of the workers in manufacturing industries, don't we? But we simply c
by detcader 12y ago
Exactly, johns should be penalized. We sanction entire countries because of the conditions of the workers in manufacturing industries, don't we? But we simply can't touch the sex industry because that would be restricting "free choice"...
- tormeh 12y agoFarming in California is built on trafficked, essentially slave, labor, but I guess the much smaller problems in prostitution are a more romantic target.
- detcader 12y agoSmaller? By what metric?
- stcredzero 12y agoFrequency of piecework? I bet there are a lot more instances of "picking a fruit" per year by trafficked farm worker than there are instances of sex by a trafficked sex worker.
- detcader 12y agoWhy are you referring to rape as "sex"? Rape is a violent crime every time it happens. I think we can recognize one issue as valuable without putting down the other.
- stcredzero 12y agoRape is non-consensual sexual activity. If you want to establish a convention where "sex" only means consensual sex and "rape" only means non-consensual sexual activity, then I'll consent to that. There are far more intellectually honest ways of establishing such a convention than this sort of sideways putting words into someone's mouth.
- detcader 12y agoI wasn't meaning to be accusatory. It's common to talk about rape as "sex", but I think it also reflects a horrible lack of collective thought. Rape only necessarily involves one actor (for example if the victim is asleep) so I don't see why it shouldn't be categorized as masturbation.
- tsotha 12y agoRape is sex. It may be violent. It may be criminal. It may be abhorrent. But it's still sex. The feminists are really out to lunch on this one.