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Redefining Sex Work
East Bay Express ^ | October 17, 2012 | Ellen Cushing

Posted on 10/19/2012 8:30:43 AM PDT by AmericanSamurai

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To: Oberon

Yeah, maybe Harvard or Yale can be where they start to offer one. Or some other liberal sh*thole Ivy league campus.


41 posted on 10/19/2012 9:17:48 AM PDT by AmericanSamurai
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Lol - good suggestion!


42 posted on 10/19/2012 9:17:51 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("You know I'm always there for you," he told her, as he hurried out the door.)
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To: AmericanSamurai

LOL!
Miss Swan returns!


43 posted on 10/19/2012 9:21:38 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: Vision

Ho’ing, the profession one gets when one gets so many tats and peircings that they can’t or won’t find an honest job.


44 posted on 10/19/2012 9:22:28 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: Right Brother

Oh, Good Lord. I’ll bet she has tats where I’ll never look, I couldn’t stand the smell.


45 posted on 10/19/2012 9:27:59 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: PapaBear3625

You can send the escort away for a year or two, then call her back and all is good


46 posted on 10/19/2012 9:30:45 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: PapaBear3625

[ Just as every thoughtful gun owner knows that gun control laws won’t stop criminals from getting guns, it must be recognized that laws against prostitution will not stop the sex trade. I have no strong feeling about this issue but it’s hard to defend laws that make it illegal to sell something that is legal to give away.

What’s the real difference between an escort, and having a girlfriend who perpetually needs help paying her bills? ]

Whorin’ should be legal not because we want whorin’ but because by outlawing whorin’ we are infringeing on individual rights to make dumb ass decisions. The whores need to know that we expect them to take full responsibility for whatever happens to them in their chosen profession and not to expect any social acceptance of their trade.


47 posted on 10/19/2012 9:38:03 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: AmericanSamurai
...Dolly Parton aficionado (hence the name, which is fake), an NPR listener, and a big fan of Vietnamese food.

A whore who's a liberal? What's next? A sunny day that's warm? Ice that's cold? Bears that sh*t in the woods? This is breathtaking. I'm waiting for the interview in 20 years... the one where she's still in the 'oh wow it was so liberating'...

48 posted on 10/19/2012 9:44:39 AM PDT by GOPJ
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To: GraceG

Some women are just of low character.


49 posted on 10/19/2012 9:45:13 AM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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To: Right Brother

Just ick.


50 posted on 10/19/2012 10:25:30 AM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: AmericanSamurai

“They aren’t paying any taxes, imagine how much these whores can save if they do save their money.”

They use it on dope. They are almost all drug addicts. The few who aren’t are just crazy.

To do this “work” is extremely self-abusive, and the women who do it for any length of time are either addicts or mental.


51 posted on 10/19/2012 10:35:28 AM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: GraceG
Ho’ing, the profession one gets when one gets so many tats and peircings that they can’t or won’t find an honest job.

Some people are in the business because they are just too unstable to hold a conventional job.

52 posted on 10/19/2012 10:35:50 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (political correctness is communist thought control, disguised as good manners)
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To: muir_redwoods

” it must be recognized that laws against prostitution will not stop the sex trade.”

Laws don’t stop anything. They just make certain behaviors more rare.

That’s why we still have theft, and fraud, and murder, etc.


53 posted on 10/19/2012 10:37:23 AM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Right Brother

Partially shaved head?


54 posted on 10/19/2012 10:51:36 AM PDT by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: muir_redwoods

Ever wonder why prostitution became illegal?


55 posted on 10/19/2012 10:53:53 AM PDT by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: GraceG
Whorin’ should be legal not because we want whorin’ but because by outlawing whorin’ we are infringeing on individual rights to make dumb ass decisions. The whores need to know that we expect them to take full responsibility for whatever happens to them in their chosen profession and not to expect any social acceptance of their trade.

And very often, outlawing prostitution makes the woman a victim. Think about it... A john decides not to pay, and as a bonus, decides to beat the crap out of the woman. Because prostitution is outlawed, it's doubtful that police would take her accusations seriously, if she even tried to file a report. At least if it's not against the law, it will minimize the some of the abuse against these women, and give them some protection.

Mark

56 posted on 10/19/2012 11:17:19 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: stuartcr
"Ever wonder why prostitution became illegal?"

Not to edit your question but I'll interpret it as why did prostitution became illegal in most US jurisdictions since it is legal in a good deal of Europe and elsewhere.

My view is that two separate drivers pushed prostitution to become illegal; tax issues and the same sort of moral revulsion that led to alcohol prohibition.

Oddly, a form of prostitution is legal everywhere in the US. I can freely pay actors to engage in sex acts and film it for others' sexual gratification. The legal subtlety is that the payment is for the filming, not the sex. I can even fill the role of one of the actors without violating the law.

57 posted on 10/19/2012 11:42:13 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: muir_redwoods

I imagine it’s the tax thing that really does it, thanks


58 posted on 10/19/2012 12:02:59 PM PDT by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: Right Brother

Guilty. Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.


59 posted on 10/19/2012 12:52:44 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: The_Reader_David
You might develop this idea a bit more so I can see what you're aiming at. Was it because the Christianized Romans saw commercial fornication and adultery as a personal vice against one's own chastity, but not as a betrayal of one's spouse or the exploitation of a (morally or materially) degraded class?

Or did they did not realize that prostitution has pervasive societal consequences? Was it because they were unaware of venereal plagues? Was it because most whores were of the servile class, and they had no laws against slavery?

I am no kind of well-informed commentator here, not at all, but as I understand it, even pederasty --- the sodomizing of a young catamite by an older man--- was seen primarily as a defect in personal chastity (and of course much to be deplored) but not as something socially corrosive or exploitative.

There wouldn't have been much sensitivity to the power-difference between a catamite or concubine and the, um, consumer, or (in general) the f***er and the f***ed.

So I don't know what comparison you're aiming to make between the social/legal perspective of classical antiquity, and ours.

Sincere questions, not gotcha questions.

(I trust I am not being too obscure.) Your view?

60 posted on 10/19/2012 1:23:54 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("God bless the child that's got his own." Billie Holiday / Arthur Herzog Jr)
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