Would Legalizing Prostitution Free Men’s Sexuality From Female Control?

sfudman · 2014-04-10T10:15:32+00:00

prostitution should be legalized and regulated to protect the health and safety of both the provider and the customer.

Davidisontherun · 2014-04-10T11:04:01+00:00

Fully immersive VR will do that more than anything I imagine. Or sex robots, whichever is widely accessible first.

MockingDead · 2014-04-10T19:35:34+00:00

What will free men is artificial wombs.

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2014-04-11T11:54:34+00:00

I would be curious to see the relative opposition to prostitution broken down by gender.

It does seem that women would in general stand to lose more.

I don't think it's a coincidence that feminists have either opposed it or supported laws that would make it legal to sell while sill penalizing the buying of sex.

2014-04-10T13:20:48+00:00

How can it be legal to sell sex but illegal to buy it? Who are you selling sex to if no men are allowed to buy it? Of course, any time one sees a feminist of the Catherine MacKinnon ilk, all logic goes out the window as long as men are rounded up and put in jail. This is sick, twisted logic and has no place in a free society.

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2014/04/maybe-theres-difference-between-blowjob.html

If I had to guess:

1) The major threat to feminism at the moment isn't a competing "ism," but rather the propensity of women to drop out or never sign on. (Or parrot the words without any real conviction.)

2) A major reason women drop out is the desire for conventional or traditional relationships. They either see a direct conflict with feminism, or just find that it isn't speaking to their interests.

2a) Because of this, there is a big intellectual market for the Feminist Take on the Relationship Question. This splits on the usual liberal/radical divide:

the liberals want basically the traditional relationship model, but reformed to be more egalitarian or otherwise friendly to women

the radicals want something else entirely. They see traditionally male patterns of sexual behavior as better or more advantageous than female patterns. Basically, they want to let women sleep around without social stigma.

3) If you want to let women sleep around without social stigma, moral condemnation of prostitution becomes very tricky. You can condemn the male side of the equation, but that's kind of ducking the question -- and besides, prostitution has never been about the johns. You're more or less required to hold up the prostitutes as the vanguards of the revolution, just for the sake of internal consistency.

The political problem with all of this is that it doesn't hold together unless, at some level, young women want to live in the Brave New World of sex positive feminism. You can write all the journal articles you want, but if little girls want to grow up to be mommies married to daddys, the next generation won't show up to read them.

chevalier_d_eon · 2014-04-10T09:05:39+00:00

No.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/10488755/Germany-to-ban-flat-rate-sex-offers-in-brothels.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-politics/10591588/Prostitution-Can-European-Parliament-call-a-halt-to-it.html

Title	Would Legalizing Prostitution Free Men’s Sexuality From Female Control?
Author	EvilPundit
Upvotes	5
Comments	9
Date	April 10, 2014 7:34 AM UTC (12 years ago)
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