Is prostitution really about exploitation?

Clauderoughly · 2012-12-24T18:39:45+00:00

Canadian here.

Prostitution is legal for the most part here.

There are stupid bullshit laws against "keeping a premise for sex work" but they aren't really enforced.

2012-12-24T13:53:24+00:00

I would never call it more than mutual exploitation. But I call marriage that too. And work. Pretty much all relationship has at least a small element of exploitation. I don't say that bitterly either. I think barter is a good thing.

LeSpatula · 2012-12-24T11:01:30+00:00

Prostitution is legal or at least tolerated in most European countries. Basically it gives women the right to do whatever the fuck they want with their body. Exploitation can happen in every other job too, especially when it's not regulated.

zeppo_shemp · 2012-12-25T01:26:02+00:00

to quote Camille Paglia:

The feminist analysis of prostitution says that men are using money as power over women. I'd say, yes, that's all that men have. The money is a confession of weakness. They have to buy women's attention. It's not a sign of power; it's a sign of weakness.

As quoted in Sexuality and Gender (2002) by Christine R. Williams and Arlene Stein, p. 213

Lawtonfogle · 2012-12-25T05:56:41+00:00

It is no more exploitation than a minimum wage job is, and probably a lot less so. The only exception being actual sex trafficking, which is horrible and should be ended.

SCCROW · 2012-12-24T17:48:02+00:00

Yes, it sure is.

It is all about women exploiting men's sex drives.

2012-12-25T03:51:54+00:00

Prostitution is about women exploiting men for money.

You guys see how easy that shit is? Stop using logic to fight feminists, I think they respond better to idiocy because it's the only language they can speak.

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2012-12-24T15:49:16+00:00

Prostitution as exploitation stems from the outdated notion that sex is something men seek to acquire from women and women seek to safeguard from men.

Women cannot desire it in it's own right (or even tolerate it really). They offer to trade it for other things (financial security, monogamy, etc). All through an officially sanctioned transaction: marriage.

Feminists have fought that latter notion but viciously defend the former. It's like chivalry, they get rid of the basis for the social construct but want to keep the social construct because it benefits them.

To accept that prostitution isn't exploitation you must accept that women are capable of enjoying sex in it's own right and that men and women can come to such arrangements in a mutually beneficial manner.

/and I'm talking here about the traditional male as the client female as the prostitute set up. Feminists will either ignore other arrangements or try to make them fit back in to that traditional mold with very flexible logic.

Pecanpig · 2012-12-25T02:17:09+00:00

Yes. It is entirely about the exploitation of men.

2012-12-25T04:11:26+00:00

Prostitution isn't inherently exploitative. Exploitation is connected to the illegality of sex work. Prostitutes are regularly exploited, not because they're women or because they're involved in sex work, but because they work on the black market. There are no laws or regulations that safeguard against exploitation practices in that industry, because it's prohibited. Women can be robbed, beaten, raped, etc. because they don't have any legal authority to help them and keep them safe. If prostitution were legal, women would have access to laws and regulations that prevent them from being exploited on the job. But as it stands, fear of arrest prevents women from seeking legal protection.

I suppose all of that could be true of male prostitutes as well, actually, so it's not really just a feminist issue.. Are male prostitutes routinely mistreated by pimps and clients?? I don't know much about it, but I think it must happen.

kaosethema · 2012-12-26T01:26:15+00:00

yes. no intelligent person chooses prostitution unless there is a negative aspect to their lives which may lead them to believe that they are doing something good and/or lucrative.

2012-12-24T17:55:36+00:00

The exploitation of the male biology, yeah.

Froolow · 2012-12-24T19:49:14+00:00

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Title	Is prostitution really about exploitation?
Author	ernestbelfortbax
Upvotes	14
Comments	31
Date	December 24, 2012 10:17 AM UTC (13 years ago)
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