The sex industry, that is...
Because you know, in reading all the debates about it, the anti "pornstitution" side treats it like it is, in that all sex work, be it stripping, pro dom, porn, hooking, whatever, is, well, the same. Which is why a thread on stripping, or porn, or whatever else invariably ends up in a discussion about forced prostitution and trafficking because, well, to these folks, The Sex Industry is a Monolith. Swinging on a pole is whippin a dude for money is fucking on film is givin' a blow job in a back alley is the pornstitution is a monolith.
Except, however, when it suits them for it not to be. People can tell them all day long, every day, day in and day out that it is not a monolith, and they are ignored because it is it is it is! Until they want it not to be...
Like when a content, dare I even say happy, sex worker arrives on the scene to debate. Then suddenly the rules change, the goal posts are moved, and it isn't a monolith any more. The contented/happy sex worker is different. I mean, her shaking her ass or doing whatever is not the same suddenly! There are suddenly vast differences between swinging on a pole and giving a blow job in a back alley. There is an ocean of difference between getting filmed being fucked and being someone forced into the sex biz (which, oddly enough, us monolith deniers have been saying all along). Presto chango, and the wave of the whim wand of the antipornstitution people, it suddenly isn't a monolith anymore!
What an amazingly magical bullshit effect, ain't it?
So what is it, people? Monolith or not, because you cannot have it both ways.
Sunday, January 06, 2008
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Monolith...because, you know...women, we're all the same. Except when we're not, but that's the exception.
OK, how about this? There *are* happy hookers, but not for all the reasons (most of) the guys who believe in them think.
I agree with you, prostitution is not sex-slavery or rape. But sex-slaved women get raped and procured (otherwise, they wouldn't have been sex-slaved in the first place.)
I guess things haven't changed much since ancient Greece (here I go again) Back then, there used to be two kinds of prostitutes: the educated, learned and emancipated heterai and the slave girls sold to brothels.
I get the feeling the heterai were rarer than the slave-girl prostitutes. And I also get the feeling that the same kind of thing happens today too: the happy hookers are less than the slaved ones.
(Oh, and I left out the hierodules, holy prostitutes that plied their trade in temples. I'm sure there's nothing like that today...)
"Oh, and I left out the hierodules, holy prostitutes that plied their trade in temples. I'm sure there's nothing like that today...)"
you'd be wrong. I'm not one, but they are out there.
Oh, who needs goalposts anyway? Seems to me that when you're arguing with people who are trying to make the world "better," who are "right" and who ~know~ they're right, they feel perfectly justified in engaging in whatever kind of rhetorical trickery they want to. Because, you know, they're Right and they're serving some kind of greater good. They're not arguing in good faith, they don't care what facts and reality have to say about anything, but that doesn't matter because they're Right.
I guess things haven't changed much since ancient Greece (here I go again) Back then, there used to be two kinds of prostitutes: the educated, learned and emancipated heterai and the slave girls sold to brothels.
Wow. Once again, your only options are one extreme or another! Never mind that vast middle ground, where most folks actually live...
But...but...If it's not the same.....But it is the same....But it's not... DOES NOT COMPUTE! DOES NOT COMPUTE!
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