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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (56560)	9/30/1999 5:14:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Untrue. Many make that as a career choice because they want the fastest access to material wealth. Some become call-girls, others adult movie stars, and a few others even end up eventually as authors and actresses. Male prostitutes, overall, do not fare as well. FT

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (56560)	9/30/1999 5:25:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to 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?

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (56560)	9/30/1999 5:31:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

Lots of jobs suck- including being a housewife- where you are pretty much a one man prostitute - or mistresses, who ARE one man prostitutes (when the man supports them). And what's wrong with that? Sex is a commodity. If Men (or women- but mostly men) are silly enough to pay for it, let them. And if women (or men) choose (because it IS a choice- they COULD work at McD or gutting fish, or picking crops- those jobs are pretty much wide open) to sell their bodies then they have that right- imo. The better way to tackle the problem is to make them NOT WANT to sell their bodies. Criminalization doesn't work, and makes the work more dangerous to the VERY women you paternalistically wish to protect.