You know I often find a lot of cognitive dissonance in the left when it comes to prostitution. This is not even from religious groups, who are obviously anti-prostitution, but it comes from supposedly pro-choice left.
My position as always, is the liberty position, consenting adults should have the freedom to do whatever they want in bed. And this includes gay and transgender couples, or even an orgy between multiple people, I don't care. If they want to do it for money, fine by me. So people should have the freedom to do whatever they want with their body, even for money or for other rewards.
The problem is that I have seen recently many feminist groups that are against prostitution, because they find it very humiliating for women. In fact these are the groups that are also against porn, strip-dancing, and whatnot.
And this is the obvious problem, because these people are supposedly supporting the LGBT, and LGBT marriages, which obviously means that they acknowledge that consenting adults should have the rights over their body.
But for some reason they deny this when money is involved? WTF? This is insane. Either you accept the principle that people are free to do anything with consent, or you are a fascist and want to control people's body (no drugs, no tobacco, no alcohol, no sex, forced vaccination, no gay marriage, etc...)
So it literally comes down to this, either you accept people having a right over their body or not. Abortion is a little bit trickier because murder is involved there, and the abortion process is very sadistic and Nazi-eugenics-like if you actually study it, but that is another topic. But other than that, those other activities are only your responsibility, and should be nobody else's.
Okay so we have identified the cognitive dissonance here, you can't be for choice and then not be when it's against your personal preferences.
Secondly how the hell is getting paid by sexual services is degrading women? Or for that matter men, or gay or other kind of sexual workers?
Because we only hear that female prostitution is a shameful job, for for some reason male escort and stripping is not? How is that possible?
So if a women strips for 200$ that is shameful, but if a guy does it then it's hot? I can't follow, because these people are idiots, they are full of contradictions in their head.
Thirdly how can you be degraded if you are getting paid for it? I have literally heard of stories of teen girls who had been with like 50 guys, for free. Even in my time when I was a teen I knew girls who were very promiscuous and slept with anyone for just a bottle of beer.
So here you have a generation of sluts who just fuck anyone for free, versus a professional sex worker that at least earns 2000-5000$ / month for it.
Which one is more degrading, sleeping with people for free? Or actually getting paid for it? I mean if you get paid for it, then you can just raise your fee based on how good service you can offer.
If you are a very high quality sex worker, then you can just charge like 1000-2000$/ event, so 50,000$ or more can easily be earned monthly. How is that degrading?
I mean you have waitresses, restaurant girls, baristas, whatever that literally have to fuck their bosses just to get a shitty 100$ salary.
At least if you are an independent sex worker, you don't need a pimp or webcam girls can just do it online, and a lot more money can be earned instead of having to fuck just to keep a job.
So which one is more degrading, earning 50,000$/month as a luxury escort woman or earning 50$/month as a sweatshop slave?
So women can be more independent by being sex workers, it's still a choice, nobody forces them to be, but it's a choice. I thought feminism was about empowering women, not dictating to them what they can and can't do with their bodies?
So I think prostitution has to be legalized at some point. If you don't like it, just don't solicit it, but you can't impose your moral rules on other's, that is fascism.
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