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by detcader 12y ago
You set up the "listen to the sex workers" talking point very elaborately, when I and feminists have already listened to them quite enough to understand what the sex industry is to women ( http://sarahditum.com/201
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You leave out the Nordic model's compontent of social programs that give women all the means to exit the industry. Why would one leave this out...?
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Do you mean to intentionally betray a lack of an argument by restricting your comment to pure rhetoric?
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My comment explicitly didn't speculate on any particular reason, it pointed to language that could easily be politician-grade rhetorical defense. Did you read my whole comment? People can speculate about the reasons if they can point t
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> Unless you're embezzling money or using the interns as drug mules or something. Let's say that Holman did something not so hyperbolically terrible as these silly examples, but still terrible enough to reflect on his character
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There are the three general grouping points of views: 1. Prostitution industries are non-harmful 2. Prostitution industries are harmful to women no matter what the social context and always will be 3. The industies are harmful to women as
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Women occupy a different social position then men, so we must think about them differently, thus treating them differently. This old talking point about "equal treatment" is a "strawman". I think if you do a sufficient a
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The social attitute toward being a prostitute is another thing entirely. I was talking about "social stigma" against using prostitutes. In most contexts "outside of my social circle", "sex" itself is generall
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I don't know much about Marxism, I use "class" in the intuitive way that means a group of people with interests. I don't think anyone actually disagrees that the world has groups of people with interests. Everyone unders
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I'm glad to see a comment on this issue raising honest points, which is uncommon to see. In 2015, using a lot of tech is far less optional than using pornography and sex workers, which is optional (as in, optional = bool(True)) in ever
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What makes you say this? Did you read my comment to stcredzero below?
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I think the URL is yourfallacyis dot com slash anecdotal? And maybe those young people were against prostitution because they believed it to be harmful to women as a class and involves extreme violence to individual women, whose stories you
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Why 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.
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I think craigsmitham meant women as a class, not individual women. Prostitution (which includes porn) is fundamentally harmful to women as a class. I think this should be obvious, but those to whom it is not can see the work of Gail Dines a
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You could also say that adultery has a social stigma, but you see it everywhere, even from the most conservative of men. I would argue that this is not "social stigma", but rather a different conception of controlling women. To th
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craigsmitham meant straight male johns using the prostitution industry. You know this, and yet act like you don't. This is called "intellectual dishonesty". craigsmitham seems to endorse the Nordic model, where prostitutes ar
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Smaller? By what metric?
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The existence of people in the sex industry (yes, it's in fact an industry) who are not women doesn't disqualify the relevance of women's social position in the world to the industries (they are industries, sorry) of prostitu
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No, a man using a woman for sex when she can not give consent is already called "rape" and is illegal, because we as a civilization understand that this causes significant trauma for individuals -- that is, it's categorized a
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There is no "social stigma" to prostitution afaik. I keep seeing people (mostly men) assert this as gospel truth, but it's an extremely common phenomenon around the world. I'm going to need sources on the claim that ther
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Stop treating religious people like children. Did you know that they can choose their own religion just like atheists? It's not like they were raised from infancy on their ideologies and beliefs, and subject to social pressure if they
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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 can't touch the sex industry because that would be restricting "fr
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The question that always gets me: You have stories of women being threatened with injury or death to perform or to service johns. How do you know that the women in the porn you watch or the prostitutes or strippers you use are _not_ being c
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There is a thing called the Nordic Model, which is a third option.
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What do we expect from Wired? Is there a general consensus that Wired is a respectable news source? I'm subscribed to it (the subscription was a gift) and it occasionally has informative and interesting content (the Christopher Nolan i
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The implicit objection in my comment is similar to other HN user's objections that start discussions every day, assuming my objection has merit. Your comment makes no difference to my comment.
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I think the writer's points are clear enough that he shouldn't have to refer to the group of Bill Cosby's victims as an "army of accusers" to get through to the readers. Maybe I am wrong and this is a necessary step
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Henry Homesweet had the first elix track ("Nu") in his 2014 Essential Chip Mix, which is indeed essential: https://soundcloud.com/henryhomesweet/essential-chip-mix-201...
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“Just the Beginning of What We Can Do on Super Nintendo”(blog.attractmo.de)
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Meanwhile the NYT hosts a tiny AP story on the new Reporters Without Borders report, under the "Europe" section [1]. Russia is rated much lower than the US, but we are not free from embarrassment. See Glenn Greenwald's commen

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