Maybe in your school, but not all.
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Is prostitution acceptable?
- Thread starter Saint Frankenstein
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The problem I have with the OP is that I see prostitution as a gigantic category of endeavors, with huge gray areas.
I see people like Anna Nicole Smith and Melania Trump as high end hookers who reached the pinnacle of the profession when they married billionaires. At the other end of the spectrum might be teenagers who "put out" to keep their boyfriend. People use sex to get what they want all the time. Especially women, because men are relatively easy to lead around by the genetalia.
The middle ground, someone who has a clear business deal, doesn't strike me as particularly dysfunctional or problematic. Not if there are regulations and mores to protect the participants from abuse.
Tom
I see people like Anna Nicole Smith and Melania Trump as high end hookers who reached the pinnacle of the profession when they married billionaires. At the other end of the spectrum might be teenagers who "put out" to keep their boyfriend. People use sex to get what they want all the time. Especially women, because men are relatively easy to lead around by the genetalia.
The middle ground, someone who has a clear business deal, doesn't strike me as particularly dysfunctional or problematic. Not if there are regulations and mores to protect the participants from abuse.
Tom
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DavidFirth
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Yes, you would have a huge problem with it, don't lie.
No, I wouldn't. I sometimes consider becoming a sex worker, myself. Plus, as a person who worships the Divine Feminine and a feminist, it would against my religion to try to tell a woman would they should do with their body, as if I own them. That would be disrespectful to Devi. It is not objectively harmful, so I don't have the grounds to judge it.
DavidFirth
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What? Point out the problems with my post, as you see them.
DavidFirth
Well-Known Member
Your attitude and your wit I find disgusting. Continue on your convo with someone else, I don't care to discuss this with you anymore.
I wasn't being witty. I was merely expressing my opinion. Not my fault you can't express yours likewise, and with reason.
Skwim
Veteran Member
I know someone (really well) who stays married to a smarmy lawyer who cheats on her all the time. Because if she dumped his skanky butt she would have to get a job and she has never had one in her life.
I see that as grosser than if she just started her life over as a hooker.
Tom
DavidFirth
Well-Known Member
No, you got it backwards. Everyone must think as you do because you hate Christianity.
Skwim
Veteran Member
Thing is, I never implied as much, whereas you have. Your "So's your old man" playground ploy here, while amusing, is rather disappointing coming from an adult---I take it you're over 18 years old. If you're not over 18 then never mind. I understand your childish response.
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You are either kidding or seriously mistaken.
Why not? Just for example, an older, no-longer hunky-attractive man who has lost his wife still wants the company (including the carnal) of a woman -- and a woman who may not find him to be the man she'd spend her life with, but who can help her pay some bills and get on with her own life? WHY NOT? Why is the exchange of money the defining factor in this scenario? A man who wants ice cream can pay for it, and nobody cares. A man who wants a woman to clean his house is allowed to pay for his maid. What is it about SEX that changes everybody's mind so dramatically? Sex is too frightening? Piffle. Sex just feels good, and even warms the soul.
WISDOM! (Or perhaps just experience, but it amounts to the same thing, in the end.)
They have each other.
(I've shopped at Walmart.)
DavidFirth
Well-Known Member
If you don't think Skwim hates everything remotely Christian or related to the God of Israel you are either willingly ignorant, stupid, mentally disabled or just an idiot.