Blogcritics Comments on Legalizing Prostitution

Comment by Douglas Mays on Legalizing Prostitution

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:07:04 EDT

Duke, you bring up a good point....but, hhhmmm...also a big question in the whole sexual violation world. Let me just say that with me, when involved in sexual activity, if I detect the SLIGHTEST discomfort, confusion (say a gal picks me up after a gig, then in the middle of things she starts to wonder about her marriage or something), etc. I do pull out!!! Stop the emotional violation. Sit back and smoke a joint or something. Step away from discovered violation and get into nurturing. It is kinda difficult to detect with a woman who is damaged and numb to the whole sex process. Both parties involved must be in to each other equally. Rocks off? Yes! Don't be throwing rocks at your partner. Anyway, I chimed in because I had a discussion with an old friend (that I have not heard from for quite a while) who does/has done the prostitution thing. Yeah, every single word I said above about the psyche, personal damage, etc. is very true. Poor girl. Soul is trashed. Lost in life. Can't really hang on to herself. Or even find herself. And this is someone who did have a chance in life. No dummy, but no life now... Just a slave to the thick forest of existance. Anyway, DM

Comment by Duke on Legalizing Prostitution

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:25:01 EDT

I guess every time I make love to my wife over the last 20 years I have been psychiatrically violated, bcause i have never been sexually attracted to my wife and I know many other men in the same boat; and women not attracted to there husbands. We all are prostitutes we give, take, trade, accomodate. I just another moranic retard things us humans like to debate about tell we get our rocks off.

Comment by anon on Legalizing Prostitution

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:26:59 EDT

Chris Matthews is a jackass.

Comment by Douglas Mays on Legalizing Prostitution

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:20:01 EDT

I got it!!! We should take this discussion to editorial opinion TV. BLUEBALL with Chris Matthews? Awe geez, sorry about that folks... I could not resist the pun from Hardball... OK, let me put the whole issue in these terms. Sexual attraction is healthy if the chemical attraction exists in both parties involved. How many prostitutes have any sort of that 'chemical attraction' with everyone they have sex with? Probably .002% of the times. If there is no attraction, the act of sex becomes psychiatrically violent. Example: I have been aware of situations where a 'john' has a whore in situations where she is crying during the act of sex to have such violence stop. Legal or not, the mighty dollar for the john or legal brothel rules the situation. This is something that causes very deep intense psychological damage. Could you imagine this happening to someone who already has personal issues before prostitution lifestyle takes place. Talk about rubbing ones nose in it! Geez, I'm going to turn the channel back to Blueball... DM

Comment by Douglas Mays on Legalizing Prostitution

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:29:58 EDT

Hold it! Let me just say that sex is a very healthy thing for mind and body OR a very damaging thing to such. Sex in a healthy situation is positive. Sex in a non-healthy manner is very destructive. Healthy is a term I am using in reference to that mind-body-soul perspective. Oh, the worlds oldest profession? I always thought hunting and gathering was. hehe anyway, my angle on all this is that legal or not the personal damage still exists. then with legality, the competition level goes up. the price goes down. Oh gosh. Poor woman! Giving oneself up in a psychiatric violent way for chump change to fight ones personal poverty... gosh... DM

Comment by bliffle on Legalizing Prostitution

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:56:15 EDT

SEX! Wow. What else could stir up so many articles and so many moral positions, so many political positions. After reviewing my own sexual history and trying to find the proper moral position that would exculpate myself while properly damning all others....I've given up. I'll leave it to the rest of you, those with less personal chagrin over their own histories, to carry the Moral Torch forward.

Comment by Clavos on Legalizing Prostitution

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:30:38 EDT

Doug, You're trying to bail out the ocean with a teacup. You may not realize it, but one way or another, you have paid a quid pro quo for every time you've gotten laid in your life. And there's nothing wrong with that; it's just nature.

Comment by Douglas Mays on Legalizing Prostitution

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:55:45 EDT

Oh funny? I have a feeling that all you pro-prostitution guys have been talking to girls lately and finding that you guys really know nothing about the realities of the deal. Well, you are doing a good job of repelling the women. That is why you are really pro-prostitution.

Comment by Douglas Mays on Legalizing Prostitution

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:44:04 EDT

Marcia, thank goodness someone uis close to getting it. The comments by all these so called 'men', who really are not, based on their self absorbed comments. In essence, it is all a form of rape. legal or not. Talk to any crack whore or long time hooker. You will see what the deal is about sex. All the pro legal prostitution comments are only valid in a society of robots. Not humans.

Comment by Les Slater on Legalizing Prostitution

Sat, 8 Mar 2008 19:08:26 EST

Prostitution has not always existed nor is there any good reason for it to continue to exist. Before civilization there was no basis for prostitution. There is no evidence that anyone's role was primarily sexual. It might be possible that there could have been a male whose only function was studding, but women would have to at least share that role with childbearing and some rearing. Currently, and for most of history, prostitution has been an economic relationship, with the woman, the exploited. It is generally for lack of other gainful opportunity that women find themselves prostitutes. The same can be said of marriage. Both of these depend on the general lack of social security and the inequality of the sexes. The first thing that should be done is to decriminalize prostitution. No woman should be further exploited by society for an exploitation already befallen her.

Comment by Dr Dreadful on Legalizing Prostitution

Sat, 8 Mar 2008 17:14:50 EST

Marcia... Once again... HUH??!!??!!??

Comment by Marcia L. Neil on Legalizing Prostitution

Sat, 8 Mar 2008 17:07:03 EST

This same controversy starts up whenever there are serious public-interest lawsuits to initiate -- the underlying issue being that sexual intercourse perpetuates fallacies as much as it does realities. It is ridiculous and offensive to champion prostitution as way to procure testimonies and information to assist current court-action lawsuits, as a way to commpel/force/squeeze language and narratives from witnesses, onlookers and others. Thinking about inventing something? Legalized prostitution could set up an encounter that pins both mind and body to route your best ideas elsewhere. All the '-stitution' words signify a direct usage of the human body, in ways that are not always beneficial.

Comment by zingzing on Legalizing Prostitution

Sat, 8 Mar 2008 16:47:16 EST

in other words, you are envisioning some fantasy where prostitution does not exist. that would be fine. but it's not reality.

Comment by zingzing on Legalizing Prostitution

Sat, 8 Mar 2008 16:43:50 EST

"fuck" is a term meaning to have sex. read it as nothing else. it does not factor in love, or even a lack of love. it doesn't even factor in lust. it was clavos' word, but i assume we are talking about the physical act here. reduced to that level (which it has to be if we are talking about prostitution,) it is almost secondary. it's going to happen either way, legal or not. what won't happen with legalization is the connection of prostitution to the mafia and the drug trade. what will happen is that prostitutes will be tested an receive treatment for STDs. that's what is being discussed here. not how sex affects the human mind. besides, how do you think the pimp-prostitute relationship affects the mind of the prostitute? as far as your "fucking around in the game of life/human disregard" mumbo-jumbo goes, i think you'll find that "just wanting a fuck" is neither a male or a female peculiarity. i'm well past those days. prostitution is going to happen either way. you seem content to leave prostitutes to be beaten, drug-addled and with no way of escape. legalizing it just removes the criminal (mafia, pimp, drugs) from what will happen anyway.

Comment by Douglas Mays on Legalizing Prostitution

Sat, 8 Mar 2008 15:21:02 EST

Zing #65. Geez... sure, men and women do like to fuck. That isn't the point. Fucking is deep shit. Actually in the term fuck, If you are just fucking, you are fucking around in the game of life. Legal or not, the social damage still exists. It comes down to human disregard. I am amazed you have not figured that out at all. No, I guess I am not amazed. Typical... Why do so many women have an attitude against the male population? Read above.

Comment by Douglas Mays on Legalizing Prostitution

Sat, 8 Mar 2008 15:00:39 EST

Ruvy!!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!! You get it! To some degree!!!! Our reasoning may differ. Or we may be right on to the finite detail of the subject. I would love to hear a female voice in all this. A female who has knowledge in the runnings of the psyche of a prostitute. All I can do is be a voice for the population who gets ignored and shoved in the cracks. Thank you for bringing that up, Ruvy. That one has had me scratching my head the whole way thru.

Comment by Ruvy in Jerusalem on Legalizing Prostitution

Sat, 8 Mar 2008 13:30:30 EST

Gee guys, In the latest reincarnation of this thread, it appears that only guys are talking about this topic. Given that women are usually the prostitutes, it would be interesting to see a female voice giving an opinion....

Comment by zingzing on Legalizing Prostitution

Sat, 8 Mar 2008 13:07:07 EST

wow doug. he said men and women like to fuck, you're not going to get rid of prostitution until you get rid of humans, and that legal prostitution makes it safer. all points that are true. even a real hardcore feminist without her head up her ass would have to concede those as facts.

Comment by Douglas Mays on Legalizing Prostitution

Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:51:35 EST

Clavos, WHAT!!!!????? WHAT!!?? Unevolved humanoids like you is the reason it is illegal!!! Have you ever had a real girlfriend? Do you realize what you just said in comment #63? You really don't have a clue, do you?

Comment by Clavos on Legalizing Prostitution

Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:44:17 EST

"There is a faction of society that thinks it is OK to just go fuck women." And another faction that thinks it's OK to "just go fuck guys." So what? Fucking is part of life. In fact, without it, in short order there would be no life. In re prostitution: Not for nothing is it referred to as the world's oldest profession; you will never eradicate it short of eradicating the human race. At least by legalizing it, we can regulate it and control it to where it's less hazardous for all concerned, but especially for the women.

Comment by Douglas Mays on Legalizing Prostitution

Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:02:16 EST

Yup, what ever the exact number is, 4 of 12? I was bouncing off what ever numbers were given on the other thread. Without checking. It was just made to sound big in the other comment. btw, the comment regarding having two people with the same birthday...It takes a room with 20 people in it to have 2 people with the same birthday. A statistical engineer person told me that one. The Taurean deal? Yeah, the mo-fo was drunk. Bottom line. How the astrology comes into play is a drunk Taurean vs. a drunk somthing else you might get a different drunk reaction. But drunk is drunk. A drunk person who was neglected and beaten by his parents vs. drunk but healthy in upbringing. all these play a factor. But drunk is the whole deal on that one. Quite an accelerant. And I protest too much? It is a case of saying things in the name of people who DON'T HAVE A VOICE in society. I am amazed at how certain people in our USA life just get shoved into cracks and oppressed in our modern times. And the oppressor get way with it!!! Women's rights are not as advanced as we fool ourselves into believing. I protest oo much? when people still have an oppressive attitude, I will protest to he point of...well, a particular song lyric goes "I'd rather go to hell than give another inch, especially when I'm right". Kelly wrote than one c1985. Well, I am a relentless Scorpion! hehehe... Elsa BlogCritics would get that one. I am not as hardcore as her about it all, but I do respect the fact that it is an element of life on earth. STAYING ON SUBJECT, legal prostitution? I don't have the info I need yet. It comes down to this: What puts a woman or man or midget or donkey in that position? Usually it is abuse and damage or force in upbringing. so say you visit a prostitute. Me, as a human am not going to lay more damage and abuse on one who has experienced too much of that. As a human, I am not going to continue such an evil cycle to anyone. Sure, they may lure you in as habit of their damage. Yeah, sometimes the 'customer' becomes an outlet for their damage (they took your wallet or called the cops when it wasn't you by projecting their anger at you, etc.) But... overall, give these women a chance to break the damage cycle and have a chance at life. That is how you break down the criminal element. Legalizing it without dealing with the personal side of it does no good. The social damage still exists. Anyway, that is the deal. Do I protest too much? Hey, if it got someone to see what is going on and understand, that is what it takes... Very detailed stuff. Can't make decisions on these type of issues without digging deep into the human element. hhhmmm...I saw a lot in this thread. Had to push peoples buttons, but I saw what I needed to know. There is a faction of society that thinks it is OK to just go fuck women. NOT COOL. Well, maybe if those guys want to go play PULP FICTION in the basement...I can find a gomer or two that will play with you... next article, please... DM

Comment by STM on Legalizing Prostitution

Sat, 8 Mar 2008 01:24:18 EST

On astrology. My son when he was in his mid-to-late teens got into trouble with the law. Although he has no convictions, he did a couple of stupid things, at least one of which was down to a pig-headed refusal to obey directions from the police - at McDonald's, of all the places you could pick. His mother said: "I think it's because he's a Taurean". Wrong. It had nothing to do with the sky. The real story: he was drunk, 18, rude, bolshy, wilful and stupid.

Comment by Dr Dreadful on Legalizing Prostitution

Sat, 8 Mar 2008 01:15:02 EST

As for the astrology, it just is. Not some weird magical concept. My point was kinda proven in the Go to Sleep, Hillary article. The astrology of Presidents part when quite a majority were of water sign or around Scorpio. Er, no, sorry, Doug. Your 'quite a majority' of water-sign Presidents was five Scorpios, four Pisces and four Cancers - a total of 13 out of 42. Which is, as you'd expect, not much more than one-fourth of them. And that's from a pretty small set. Check back with me in another 200-odd years and I guarantee you the number of water-sign Presidents will be even more exactly one in four.

Comment by STM on Legalizing Prostitution

Sat, 8 Mar 2008 00:20:13 EST

Dost thou suggesteth that he art a gibberer of the first order?

Comment by Clavos on Legalizing Prostitution

Sat, 8 Mar 2008 00:04:55 EST

Aye, mate, he doth. And he maketh not any sense...