Posted on 08/23/2005 5:38:01 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback
“Can you set your own work hours? Pick your clients? Keep all the profits?” That job description sounds great, doesn’t it? Except the line of work referred to is prostitution.
In an article titled “Prostitution Gives Me Power,” the fashion magazine Marie Claire praised the lives of three “sex workers” in Holland for “using their bodies to foster trust, compassion, and happiness in the world.” One woman said that working for a brothel or escort business allowed for a connection because “you’re there for a couple of hours” and “talk much more.” Of course, any sort of “connection” she may think she’s making is a false one. The transaction is commercial; she is a commodity to be purchased. And no matter how she packages that, it’s dehumanizing.
Attempting to legitimize prostitution as “sexual freedom,” Marie Claire downplays an overriding evil: sex trafficking.
As Ambassador John Miller, head of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the State Department, wrote in a letter to Marie Claire, “[W]here prostitution is legal or illegal but tolerated, there is a greater demand for human trafficking victims,” because local women don’t view prostitution as “legitimate or desirable,” and so “crime networks fill the void.”
Moreover, says Miller, recent academic research in nine countries “found that 57 percent of women in prostitution were raped, 73 percent were physically assaulted, and 68 percent [qualified] for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.” Eighty-nine percent of those women said they wanted to “escape” their situation.
“The U.S. Government has come to oppose legalized prostitution,” Miller wrote, “not only because it is inherently harmful and dehumanizing, but also because it creates a thriving marketplace for victims of human trafficking. This connection cannot be disregarded if we are to be serious about ending modern-day slavery.” And that’s why it’s so important that you and I continue to urge implementation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. It is up for reauthorization this year. There are still problems we need to address more strongly.
The number of persons trafficked across borders is between 600,000 and 900,000. And estimates of the number trafficked into the United Stated ranges from about 15,000 by government records up to 50,000 according to anti-slavery activists.
Thanks to China’s one-child policy, women are so scarce that North Korean women who escape into China are quickly abducted and forced to become wives or prostitutes.
Now, don’t think that legitimizing prostitution as a “good” to be sold is simply the argument of magazines like Marie Claire. When Bill Bennett and I first approached the Clinton administration in the mid-nineties to get them to stop sex trafficking, we ran into a stone wall. The feminist position was, believe it or not, being accepted, that this was empowering women. Slavery—empowerment? That’s a dangerous newspeak, but it’s exactly what we’re up against in this culture. And it’s the reason that Christians today have to fight against modern-day slavery. This is a human-rights abuse that must be ended.
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Well, a lot of folks in my industry (breeding alpacas) can set their own hours, pick their clients, and keep their profits, but we don't have to worry about our clients killing us or giving us a deadly disease.
Then again, our jobs take work, commitment, responsibility, and constant study to keep up with the industry. Perhaps not as "glamorous" as prostitution.
Yeah, those skinny little crack addicts taking on all comers in Langley Park sure look "empowered"...I'd trade with them in an instant...
“Can you set your own work hours? Pick your clients? Keep all the profits?”
talking about govt workers?
I swear, sometimes I think that modern feminists are all dirty old men in disguise because they keep on coming up with new ways for guys to get laid without any committments.
Horsehooki. Prostitution requires pimps and protections of all kinds. It's not freedom. And gaining authority through powerstruggle empowerment is accepting forms of terrorism to acquire ends. Using prostitution for that brews trouble.
But what can we say, feminist and gays have managed to burden families with proof, and they and adulterers are accepted prostitutes already anyways.
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I swear, sometimes I think that modern feminists are all dirty old men in disguise because they keep on coming up with new ways for guys to get laid without any committments.
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Pushing women and children to the front, it's a homo pedophile exploitation abortion death program. The link is clear. Families must pay taxes, are not considered nonprofit organizations, are not paid for life, prostitutes get covered with gold. What does that tell us?
It tells us: you and your family be my whore or be shunned and starve.
People want concentration camp treatment, it's what they will get.
Forced to become wives?
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Matchmaking is a pimping business that is lucrative. Muslims sell their daughters too.
Are you talking to me? Are you talking to me, Cteve? Because I'm looking around, and I don't see anybody else in here.
Really, I only wish there were more real-life heros. But you can't throw your life away like that, they'll lock you up faster than the pimps and the drug lords.
Prosititution is certainly not 'good,' but it isn't particularly 'evil.'
Cteve=Steve
Is Prostitution ‘Empowering’?
Only until (a) john beats you to death.
The problem with the feminist movement of nowadays is this constant war against men. They have an obsession-like attitude to “free” women from a male dominant society whose patriarchy has women under siege and in a state of slavery. Thus, anything which frees women from the claws of evil men is mighty good, whether it is prostitution, abortion, or whatever else they want to do.
The feminists aren't concerned about equality, but rather are more interested in a matriarchal society where women dominate men and are superior to them. That's why under the umbrella of feminism women are always the victim, which no doubt is true in some cases, but feminists tend to exaggerate and mislead with erroneous statistics to support their claims – domestic violence comes to mind.
Prostitution should be legal so we could get rid of all those abusive pimps and hookers with STD's. America would be better off if they took the Nevada approach of licensing them. I still think it's a terribly degrading profession.
Is sleeping with lots of gross men you wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole if they weren't paying you money empowering? I don't think so.
"Are you a female high school dropout, between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five? Are you tired of lying around in bed all day with nothing to do? Well. you never need get up again, because in six short weeks I can train you to be a high-paying ho. Just think--fifteen hundred dollars a week, without even leading the comfort of your own bedroom. Sound too good to be true? Just send for my new book, 'I Wanna Be a Ho'."
--Velvet Jones (Eddie Murphy)
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There are many articles about the wonders of prostitution, the legitimacy of "sex workers" and their independent life of freedom, and classes teaching stripping, or stripping as a good career for high school girls to contemplate.
All this thanks to feminism. Trade the drudgery and slavery of caring for children and a husband at home for the glamor and freedom of being sexually used by thousands of anonymous men, used up, abused, diseased and worn out by 35 or 40.
It's amazing that they see evil as good and good as evil.
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