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Do you know why St. Nicholas would be? Or are you not caring of such, just trying to make a joke?According to Manswers, jolly St. Nicholas is the saint of the working women Merry Christmas, prostitutes!
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Do you know why St. Nicholas would be? Or are you not caring of such, just trying to make a joke?According to Manswers, jolly St. Nicholas is the saint of the working women Merry Christmas, prostitutes!
Its a shame when one needs to sell their body into exploitation as such.
I don't think throwing them into jail is the right thing to do though, but to get them counseling and help.
Do you know why St. Nicholas would be? Or are you not caring of such, just trying to make a joke?
His parents died when he was a young man, leaving him well off and he determined to devote his inheritance to works of charity. An opportunity soon arose. A citizen of Patara had lost all his money, and had moreover to support three daughters who could not find husbands because of their poverty; so the wretched man was going to give them over to prostitution. This came to the ears of Nicholas, who thereupon took a bag of gold and, under cover of darkness threw it in at the open window of the man's house. Here was a dowry for the eldest girl and she was soon duly married. At intervals Nicholas did the same for the second and third; at the last time the father was on the watch, recognized his benefactor and overwhelmed him with his gratitude. St. Nicholas - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online
There is adultery and fornication.
Biblically adultery is punishable by death while fornication involves a marriage proposal or fine depending on the decision of the father of the woman.
Adultary can only be commited by a man with another mans wife.
Fornication is sex outside marraige
So according to Biblical rules, if people have sex outside of marriage then the father of the woman decides whether or not she will marry the person? Not the woman herself? Also, if a fine is chosen, who gets fined and by how much, and to whom does the money go?
Speaking to the point of prostitution being joyless, many jobs are, some even exhausting and mind numbing to boot. And the same thing, desperation, pushes people into these other jobs. As for danger, fishing, logging, and firefighting are extremely dangerous occupations.
Old jewish law states that if an umarried man and woman have sex the man must ask for her hand in marraige.
If the father says yes, they get married.
If the father says no he must still pay the wedding dowry and leave her.
I reckon this law was to protect the family because no one wanted a non-virgin bride. So if the father was so displeased with the man who jumped the gun that he prefered that his daughter probably be alone, then he would use the dowry to look after her like her husband should have.
Remember we are talking about 12-13 year olds. That is the age woman fell pregnant back then.
Is there any difference between a prostitute and a woman who goes out with a man just because they are rich or famous?
Same thing if you ask me.
As I have recently found out in another thread, marriage prevents diseases, prevents sleeping with other people, prevents relationships from going sour, and prevents a few other things.
All by some mysteriously magical force.
I suspect that it is god himself who protects marriage and those in it.
Prostitutes have no such protections.
There are members of society who would be denied physical closeness to another if it was not present, and for those people I find it hard to deny them the pleasures that many take for granted.There is plenty of opposition to prostitution in many religions and society as a whole but is it really wrong?
I'm thinking about both sides of the profession - the customers and the workers.
Surely if you want to provide it then that is your choice and if you want to partake in the services offered then that is your choice also. Obviously free will and standard consent issues apply.
any views?
I would have said that prostitution could better be dealt with through a legalized system of control, but now I'm not so sure. Holland's experience with legalized prostitution has actually fueled human trafficking, through the black market of girls and young women either taken captive or sold into slavery, and transported to legal and illegal brothels in many other countries. From: The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
In Amsterdam, Netherlands, 80% of prostitutes are foreigners, and 70% have no immigration papers, suggesting that they were trafficked. (Marie-Victoire Louis, "Legalizing Pimping, Dutch Style," Le Monde Diplomatique, 8 March 1997)
I'm saying I'm not sure because I honestly don't know how this problem could be best solved. All I am sure of is that legalization of prostitution will not be any sort of easy fix. As long as there are middle-aged men with money who want sex with young women, and young women who need money, there is going to be prostitution. Most of the girls who are on the streets or even working for escort agencies don't want to be there, but they usually come from broken homes, have little or no skills, and end up with costly drug habits. Maybe some problems aren't going to have easy answers for fixing them.Isn't that like saying we shouldn't be sure whether or not to legalize building cell phones since some other country might choose to exploit children mining "blood silicon" to ship it to tech companies?
If a country legalizes prostitution and regulates it, trafficking should not be an issue -- rather, trafficking above and beyond what would already occur anyway.
There is plenty of opposition to prostitution in many religions and society as a whole but is it really wrong?
I'm thinking about both sides of the profession - the customers and the workers.
Surely if you want to provide it then that is your choice and if you want to partake in the services offered then that is your choice also. Obviously free will and standard consent issues apply.
any views?
Many women "provide it" because they are poor and feel they have no choice and nowhere else to turn. They loathe themselves and wish they didn't have to. We also have sex trafiking because of it. So, yes - it's really wrong.