The Flip Side of Trafficking: Demand (Prostitution)

Concerned Women for America ^ | 2/23/06 | Brenda Zurita

[marajade]

It has more to do with how they feel about themselves psychologically. Not practicality.

[mewzilla]

It has more to do with how they feel about themselves psychologically. Not practicality.

You mean that they're mentally ill? I'd say some are, if they're selling their bodies for self-destructive reasons. I'd also say some are just lazy. But there's help for the former. For the latter, there's the jug. If we decriminalized every crime because a perp might have issues, we'd have anarchy.

[wagglebee]

You obviously don't have the slightest clue what Concerned Women for America is.

[Swiss]

Don't worry, Nerds all over the World is working towards the Holy Grail of Nerdom.

Building an ultra realistic robotic woman for sex.

I will be interested to see what happens when the technology is perfected.

[Luke21]

Feminists and CWA agree on outlawing anything that provides men with gratification. The left and right agree on many of these issues.

I don't see how society has anything to be gained from legalizing prostitution. I also think law enforcement has a lot more to worry about than busting prostitutes and their johns.

Let me get this straight. A society under assault from the Muslims that won't make gay bathhouses and abortion illegal and won't punish its murderers is going to throw the book at whores, pimps, and johns. Way to go.

[Tailgunner Joe]

"Men" who have to pay for "gratification" aren't very much of men to begin with.

[AlexandriaDuke]

They're the opposite of feminists.

They wear makeup.

Otherwise, it's pretty much the same, nanny-state, fear mongering agenda.

[marajade]

Like I stated above. Prostitution brings in a more criminal element, even for the prostitute themselves.

[papertyger]

The only thing they share is the desire to buy a woman or child like a commodity in order to “own” a human being for a short time.

This writer is a "victim" of her own hyperbole.

[papertyger]

What is particularly saddening is the number of people promoting prostitution on FR, often the same ones promoting porn.

What IS that number, and how about some names...or is this just a rhetorical flourish?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Trafficking women and children for prostitution means, by definition, using coercion on them, which includes (1) beatings and threats of beatings (2) movement across national boundaries and then threats that they'll be alone and not even knowing the language, homeless, shoeless, penniless and hungry, if they escape; (3) retaliatory violence against their families --- their parents, their younger brothers and sisters--- if they go to the authorities; (4) use of drug addiction as a tool of control.

This is a crime and a proper focus of law enforcement, whether we're talking about Ukrainian, Circassian, or Thai teenagers brought in fraudulently as au-pairs or domestic servants and then forced into the sex trade; or an ordinary American streetwalker who's been punched and strangled by a pimp.

If you think this is de minimis, a bunch of nanny-state nannering, you are a disgrace.

[little jeremiah]

If you've read as much on these threads as I have, you wouldn't need to ask.

If you want to know more details, do a search and read the threads.

[papertyger]

If you've read as much on these threads as I have, you wouldn't need to ask.

"Flourish" it is....

[metmom]

Wow, all the way to post 4 before someone was defending it. And here I didn't make the comment about finding someone on this thread who would support prostition before reading it because I thought it sounded too cynical. Silly me.

[wagglebee]

Yes, abducting children and selling them into sex slavery really doesn't harm anyone now does it./disgusted sarcasm off

[Yorlik803]

well..it is Gambling. Lottery is a tax on the stupid.
Most of the people who buy lottery tickets are the ones who cant really afford it.
And yes...I buy the powerball win it gets big enough

[nothingnew]

Are you a man or a woman?

Yes.

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