(June 20, 2011 at 11:30 am)Shell B Wrote:Quote:7. What do you think about prostitution and paid sex?
Should we consider it "good", "normal", etc.? How do you regard (i.e. what do you feel about that person, what attitudes you have towards him/her):
a) a man that is a male prostitute in a club or on the streets, that is being fucked by everybody (consider both situations: a. by men b. by women) for money?
b) a woman that is a prostitute in a club or on the streets, that is being fucked by everybody for money.
CONSIDERING that they are not being forced by financial problems, for whom prostitution is the only way of surviving.
Legal, normal, should be taxed like everything else. Hookers should have health plans, etc., etc. Now, I do think it should be taken off the streets. For example, don't have sex in an alley. I think legalizing it would help that problem. I would open a whorehouse as soon as the law passed.
There's something that sounds... not nice with prostitution:
Consider that prostitution on streets would become illegal, and instead, brothels would be opened. And we get a brothel built in a poor town. Which girls would want to be hired there? My answer is, the poor girls would be the first. The poor girls might have lived even without selling themselves as prostitutes if the brothel had not been built, but having the brothel built there would be a greater influence to get hired there (namely, "you will live a better life, with much more money", etc). So building a brothel may be the same as legally selling the poor girls as sex slaves (because you manipulate/convince/influence them to do that).
Also, the fact that the brothel is built would sound as if people - especially girls that think about hiring there - should not be biased when thinking about such an opportunity, because it's a "normal" job, just like any other job. This means that girls who used to say "no, I would never be a prostitute, I want to have only one man to love at once, I want to have in the future a family, kids, etc." would come to say "what the hell? what's the problem with working there after all? It's just a job like any other job".
So Shell B, how do you think about this? Do you believe that the society can influence the girls to be in a certain way? (e.g. by calling the job "a job like any other else", etc.)