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In reply to the discussion: I know prostitutes [View all]napoleon_in_rags
(3,991 posts)127. "None of them are in it because they like sex" = garbage
That's the talking point I've heard floating around lately. The reality is that millions of people world wide are ensnared in human trafficking and exploitation, but they are still a fairly small minority of sex workers world wide. Redirecting focus away from the real human trafficking situations by diverting it into a crusade against other non coerced sex workers is downright criminal in my eyes.
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He believed everything they told him. Cause they're working their way through college.
Squinch
Jun 2013
#103
and it's likely great fufilling sex...you know, the ones that are theapeutic
Sheepshank
Jun 2013
#69
As a worldly 18th Century scholar and diplomat who also has met a few prostitutes, I must say
Nimajneb Nilknarf
Jun 2013
#39
Please refer to my Journal. I introduced myself a couple of weeks ago.
Nimajneb Nilknarf
Jun 2013
#44
Oops, I assumed your moniker was a reference to adult film star Ron Jeremy.
Nimajneb Nilknarf
Jun 2013
#63
Can you explain how legalizing prostitution means no more sex slaves, trafficking or child abuse?
riderinthestorm
Jun 2013
#40
Well it doesn't assume anything. Its simply a question for Uzair based on his statement.
riderinthestorm
Jun 2013
#98
Can you explain how banning drugs has led to an end of drug abuse and trafficking? n/t
backscatter712
Jun 2013
#174
Senator, I served with prostitutes. I knew prostitutes. Prostitutes were friends of mine.
arely staircase
Jun 2013
#46
Funny, I've never met a prostitute who wasn't forced into it by economic circumstances,
Gormy Cuss
Jun 2013
#59
and on the high end they're not 'forced,' but it's one of the few ways to make big money that's
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#77
so your friend is attractive enough that people will pay her a couple of hundred for sex but she's
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#83
I know lots of people who are "forced" into commercial fishing by economic circumstance.
lumberjack_jeff
Jun 2013
#106
Really? The fishermen I know all did it because it was family/local tradition or
Gormy Cuss
Jun 2013
#107
"just because it paid better than (the) jobs that they also could have taken"
lumberjack_jeff
Jun 2013
#108
Funny , I have never met a person with a job wasn't forced into it by economic circumstances.
bowens43
Jun 2013
#129
Let us know how their lives turned out in about 20-30 years. I guess none of your
sinkingfeeling
Jun 2013
#66
You will have noticed that several here have responded to you as if their position is "consensus".
sibelian
Jun 2013
#73
the reality is you don't need to prostitute yourself to get sex. just go into a bar. you prostitute
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#128
i said, prostitution is about *money*. i didn't express an opinion about that *fact*.
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#169
Ever see the guys who troll the streets where the prostitutes work? Those girls are not
Squinch
Jun 2013
#145
I've known three kinds of prostitutes very well. One was my closest friend for years. Anyway...
freshwest
Jun 2013
#173
That is such a crock. Prostitution is not about sex, just like rape isn't. It's about money.
Honeycombe8
Jun 2013
#111
Why tax and regulate prostitution, when nobody wants to do it with Wall Street ?
jakeXT
Jun 2013
#124
Indeed. I once saw a young seaman put before Captain's Mast for cavorting with a prostitute.
Nimajneb Nilknarf
Jun 2013
#155