Legalizing Prostitution - a good thing?
Dean Esmay of Dean's World has written an essay about prostitution based on this Robert Heinlein quote:…
Legalizing Prostitution - a good thing?
Dean Esmay of Dean's World has written an essay about prostitution based on this Robert Heinlein quote:…
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76 - Clavos
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.
77 - bliffle
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.
78 - Douglas Mays
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
79 - Douglas Mays
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
80 - anon
Chris Matthews is a jackass.
81 - Duke
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.
82 - Douglas Mays
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
83 - christian peper
There are those that want to outlaw everything including premarital sex. We are already living in a police state so guess it does not really make much of a difference if one more thing is outlawed. My woman recently got in trouble for smoking outside because the town she was in outlawed it. Perhaps fascism in the United States is closer than we think.