it would be better if we could ban it... (Reply #8)

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Tue Sep 30, 2014, 08:18 AM

8. it would be better if we could ban it...

Much like alcohol or tobacco, the sex trade probably delivers more misery than happiness on balance. But I don't think that we feasibly prohibit it.

We didn't give up on prohibition of alcohol because alcohol was harmless. We gave up on it because there was no longer any social consensus behind banning it and prohibition was not feasible. I presume the same thing applies to the sex trade.

ETA - I have to say that the comparison to therapy is a very valid one. Personally I never cared for it much as it seemed to me very reminiscent of paid sex.

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28 replies	Author	Time	Post
An interesting strip on sex workers [View all]	Blue_Adept	Sep 2014	OP
Insightful.	Feral Child	Sep 2014	#1
It covers a lot of angles here	Blue_Adept	Sep 2014	#3
Yes, it's quite well written.	Feral Child	Sep 2014	#11
That's a very interesting perspective, thanks for sharing	IronLionZion	Sep 2014	#2
Yup.	Android3.14	Sep 2014	#4
Valid and helpful.	Brickbat	Sep 2014	#5
Pretty good for the issue of covers.	aikoaiko	Sep 2014	#6
No one topic can be covered in its entirety of course	Blue_Adept	Sep 2014	#21
I agree.	aikoaiko	Sep 2014	#22
If you live near a strip club, elderly Jewish men will knock on your door?	Bad Thoughts	Sep 2014	#7
Do you assign religions to all characters in a comic strip?	FSogol	Sep 2014	#9
No, I examine messaging for ethnic stereotypes	Bad Thoughts	Sep 2014	#12
Balding equals Jewish?	FSogol	Sep 2014	#14
I think it's the way the character is speaking	sir pball	Sep 2014	#15
it would be better if we could ban it...	shaayecanaan	Sep 2014	#8
It is interesting	kcr	Sep 2014	#10
Capitalism makes a commodity out of everything...	shaayecanaan	Sep 2014	#16
You are doing the same thing the author is doing.	kcr	Sep 2014	#17
I don't think what would happen is predictable if the stigma for sex work was to vanish.	seaglass	Sep 2014	#19
You're dead right...	shaayecanaan	Oct 2014	#26
Nice insinuations.	Starry Messenger	Sep 2014	#23
So what about us, and I do mean us, (now ex-) male sex workers?	genwah	Sep 2014	#20
It goes back to basic human rights	titaniumsalute	Sep 2014	#13
i stopped reading about 40%. saw intresting dichotomy.	seabeyond	Sep 2014	#18
great stuff- most women get this bullshit from men at some point- even here	bettyellen	Sep 2014	#24
My partner is a former sex worker	Prophet 451	Sep 2014	#25
A friend of mine did that for a while. She also did phone psychic work for a while.	LeftyMom	Oct 2014	#27
Same here	Prophet 451	Oct 2014	#28

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