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(via scottfriday)
i never thought about this, but it’s true.
i support legalized/regulated prostitution, but i think it’s pretty naive (if sweet) to say that they deserve the same rights and respect afforded to everyone else. that assumes that everyone else receives rights and respect (they don’t [many groups are disenfranchised]).
The thing about a regulated vice: still a vice. Example- “Big Tobacco”. An evil, disease causing industry driven by greed and exploitation of the addicted.
IMAGINE FIGHTING BIG PUSSY.
hahaha. i laughed so loud in my office at this.
That’s hilarious, BUT let’s be serious for a second here, because a bad analogy was used to make this work for the joke. If anyone’s “addicted,” it’s the people seeking sex, and not the sex workers in the case of the regulated forms of this (again, see Nevada as a state where this is actually the case. No really, go to one of the locations, and come back to read this later.).
The sex workers aren’t exploited, because in a regulated business, they’re getting fair pay (instead of it being snatched from them by some two-bit…). Their health is a concern, and various tests ensure that it’s not just a way to spread STDs while exploiting both sides. The sex workers aren’t addicts, because it’s a job. The clients aren’t necessarily addicts, unless you’re trying to say that all guys are addicts. If you are: Hi, my name is Karthik, I am a North American heterosexual male, and I am addicted to sex (I guess… it doesn’t really matter if I am, I think about it as much as the average male does and technically make as many decisions toward it in my overall life if you take it objectively). No one gives a damn about whether dudes like sex that much (see Annie Hall for relative comparisons), but that doesn’t make it an addiction in the negative sense of the word.
Okay, so we’ve basically mitigated harmful effects and noted that neither party is necessarily an addict, so much as someone wanting to pay for sex without most of the complications and someone operating in (potentially) a legal business fashion to supply the demand.
I would kill to have the fight against Big Tobacco be so clean-cut.
Of course, let’s presume that is all correct (somehow):
Oh okay, so I guess spending a bunch of money to forbid something that’s never going to be effectively snuffed out, driving it more and more out of the public eye and thusly out of any real chance of safety (Black Market Sex, basically). Now, something that could have proved not necessarily harmful in the long-run (see your psychologist if you think that you honestly have a problem, people) is now more in the hands of crooks who don’t give a flying fuck about keeping licenses or regulations or respectability.
INSTEAD, I HAVE IMAGINED FIGHTING A BIG DICK.
Nevada’s legal brothels are a long way from some sort of fair pay, honest work, at least that’s my understanding from reading the accounts on Bound, Not Gagged.
FWIW, I do support rights and respect for sex workers, but legalizing and regulating prostitution is not a panacea.
from The Amateur Everything
