Reply #175: Thank you.

[eilen]

There is the "happy hooker" meme perpetuated by the Mayflower Madam (who profitted from trafficing human beings) and the Long Island housewife thing many years ago.

Socially, as paternalistic societies go, there are only two kind of women, the moral virgin types and the underclass whore, neither of which historically had much for rights being considered chattel and ignored when abused and raped (must have done something to deserve it huh?). I don't see prostitution as victimless.

Prostitution is owning someone to use as an object for a specific amount of time. Proponents here believe it is just fine for women to consent to be objects. Married women here seem to be more concerned about regulation and healthcare so that they won't get STDs while their husbands are objectifying legal prostitutes and freeing them from giving rim jobs and other objectionable sex acts (get that from your whore, honey, I'm to pure).

I think that encourages and perpetuates an underclass of people who are considered less than human.

Considering that our society has a big problem treating people with respect (ever waitress or work in customer service?), I'd hate to put young men and women in situations where they don't even have rights to body integrity. No matter how many turns of rationalization they have traveled to make them think what they are doing is fine, just a business transaction, just like an all night party. Maybe they been told having their genitals rubbed and being told they are giving pleasure are ways to know that people care about them when they were kids, who knows.

How many prostitutes can choose which customers they want? From what I understand, the legal pros in Nevada have to line up WHENEVER the bell rings in varying stage of undress -- of course it is the "customer" who picks.