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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (56560)9/30/1999 5:25:00 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
Victimless crimes? I suppose you think women choose to be prostitutes because
they are emotionally well adjusted and researched it thoroughly and made an
informed career choice! Most prostitutes have been the victim all their lives and are
too emotionally damaged to make any good choices.

The same is pretty much true of many or most assembly line workers, agricultural workers, miners, etc. Most people in reality have little choice over the kind of work they do, and sell the use of their bodies for pay. How many of the migrant workers picking strawberries in the Skagit Valley do you think are "emotionally well adjusted and researched it thoroughly and made an informed career choice"? Ditto for women sewing in sweatshops in the Garment District of Manhattan. (If you think they aren't there, if you think the Triangle Shirtwaist company's linear successors aren't alive and well and making the clothes you wear, you're smoking something other than tobacco.)

Certainly many women are forced into prostitution by circumstances they can't control, or by pimps (bosses), and would rather be doing something else. The same is true of many assembly line workers I knew when I worked on the line one year. They would have loved to have had other career options, but they had no functional choices that they could see.

In many societies courtesans were and are honored and respected. Our Western focus on sex as something dirty has demeaned and criminalized that work. Why?
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