Prostitution as violence against women
December 6, 2009 by
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An argument in two parts from the feminist perspective for not legalizing prostitution. part 1.
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This woman is a real hero. Se is doing wonderful work.
But I wish she didn’t say the women have been “bought”. They have been made use of. But saying they’ve been bought is implying they have nothing left.
Actually, the women still have plenty left. They are still mothers, friends, artists. Though they have been made use of, they have not been bought.
“choice is the world of neoliberalism, it is an individual analysis of the world where you don’t understand oppression, choice is only possible if you have equal alternatives to choose from, otherwise it is not a choice its an adaption to the circumstances that you live in”- Agreed
yeah, I’m sure they dream about being prostitutes when they are little girls… what an imbecile!
STFU Dyke FemNazi! Women from East Europe sneak into Italy all the time to work as whores with NO “evil” male pimps dragging them out of Ukraine to come here.
What’s the difference between a hooker and some SCHMUCK in a bar that does a 1-night stand with some JERK who bought her some drinks and gave her some coke? As far as this woman,she looks like a DYKE who wants more women for herself! LOL:
Gogonostop, u r speaking my language
Biology (testosterone) is the must. You may think it disadvantages women, but in reality if men didn’t desire women sexually, far more women would have to attract men based on the power of their personality and integrity.
In other words, far more of them would remain single, and grow old and childless alone. Cold but true.
Good point.
That’s close to Catharine MacKinnon’s (radical feminist’s) definition of rape: all non-female initiated heterosexual intercourse. This, of course, broadens the definition of rape into trivialization.
I bet it will also reduce the amount of women getting broken hearts because men tell them they love them just to get sex from them.
How many men do you see having sex with non-human beings that you think of it that way?,…not so many huh
What these women is to learn how to say ‘NO’ not to the sex but to the money, if they don’t like it or aren’t pimped.
By the hookers taking their money, they have fully accepted that they’ll fulfill their fantasies worth the money, no matter how disgusted they are, here’s the solution, if they don’t like them they should give back the money and carry on.
No bigsleezy that is too shallow. Just because half the population – men – fancy sex without strings I don’t see that as a good reason for the other half of the population – women – should be prostituted worldwide. The fundamental disagreement we have is whether women are human beings or just receptacle for men’s use. As you think they are the latter then you and I will never agree.
Isn’t it fucking obvious
To must men, sex is like alcohol or cigarettes or any other addictive thing. A man doesn’t even have to have emotions for a woman he has sex with, he don’t have to ‘love’ her to do that. That’s why they prefer several partners to one.
That’s why some Misogynists can say they hate women but can’t admit they don’t need them for sexual gratification.
Misandrists(women who hate men) on the other hand would rather die than to have sex with men
a woman’s right to do what she wants with her body — same could be said about renting your womb, selling your kidney or an eye, taking heroin. All those are doing what you want with your own body, and all are illegal.
Let’s take the focus off the women and put it onto the MEN whose sexual demands fuel the whole trade. Why MUST men use women in this way? That to me is the REAL question, not keep asking why women do it.
can’t…..unsee….
she’s twisting the things around, she claims prostitution should stay illegal because women are not in the prostitution voluntarily – but that’s the problem: it’s harder for women to get out of prostitution because it is illegal! law does not protect them. criminalizing activity that could otherwise be safe means walking away from problems of people involved in the activity.
First of all, not all men(except me) are looking for hookers.
Secondlly, flashlight?… what do you think all men are, gay?
Third, not every man wants or even deserves marriage or dating, maybe if prostitution was legal, it’ll reduce the devoice rates and stop some men from being in relationships that they can’t handle(some just do them for sex, thats why they cheat). I bet if prostitution was legal, it will reduce the infidelity rate
onegirlincali :Respectfully; Academics ,with their emphasis on theory,sometimes do disservices to real victims;I heard a caller to a radio show once talk about how ‘ALL her friends had been raped”;when the host asked her to define rape.she said”All sex in an unequal society is rape “I guess my old girlfriend,who made more money than I did,raped me thousands of times;it would be funny,but it’s very disrespectful to the REAL VICTIM, beaten up and being examined in the emergency room.Words count.
Prostitution will NEVER be eliminated;however,if activists succeed in reversing the laws where it is legal,they WILL be able to force it underground where vulnerable women can REALLY be abused.
what are those two men talking about (in the front of these male audience) ????
95 Topaz With respect to the academics involved-. They are good people trying to improve the improve the lot of people they don’t know-words are important;if a woman is physically coerced into prostitution,she may well be called a slave;if she does it for money,it’s a choice;it’s disrespectful to the memories of millions of REAL slaves to throw the word around;like holocaust,it’s a term that should be used carefully and thoughtfully.
mrbriscoe: The argument that we are all slaves may indeed be a valid one, and there are certainly those who make that argument. Prostitution is a different situation, however, because it involves the buying and selling of human beings as bodies. That makes it a more extreme example of slavery.
She mentions about Estonian women not having possibilities to get education and I have to argue with that, because education in Estonia is available for everybody and mostly FOR FREE, also for russian minority it’s also possible to study in russian even in high levels of education, so there is absolutely no excuse of not getting education from the state. Also there is no possibility in these circumstances to compare Estonia to Russia.
In Holland it is for one whore for 15minutes 50 euros. One Fleshlight is 70euros. A gay man will do anything for you if you buy him a drink!
ALL MEN… please stop giving ur hard earned money to whore… save ur money and buy some sex toys like fleshlight to jerk off… If everytime you fucked ur wife or girlfreind and its costs you 100 or 200 dollars wouldn’t it just kill you??
please buy and use sextoys till you get a girlfreind or wife….. save ur money for urself and ur future…