Letters to the Editor
Mizmoon
Published Letters: 149 Editor's Choice: 15
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Tech problems and In Treatment
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can't read most Salon articles on my laptop anymore because for some reason I have the left hand nav covering the text problem there too as the other posters mentioned, but it's fine on my desktop. There is certainly something screwy going on with the html.
Anyway, I only like Alex, Amy and Jake, and Paul and Gina. The other patients are "eh" to me except that I like Laura's hair and the drama the surrounds her. Her therapy itself is boring.
Paul is such a jackass. When he kept "interpreting" Gina's comments to his wife I just wanted to kick his arrogant ass. What a jerk! And how could he lead Laura on by telling her he had feelings for her? That seems totally cruel to me - a device to keep her around while he grapples with himself. Selfish! The only one who pisses me off more is his wife - so she wants to cheat but then be jealous of Laura? I'm rolling my eyes at her. Oh, of course it's very realistic and totally human, but provoking nonetheless.
This is fun!
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Is prostitution okay for your family?
[Read the article: Who cares if Eliot Spitzer hires prostitutes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Those who want legal prostitution - would you really be okay with your mother or daughter being prostitutes? Most likely the answer is no. I think the proponents imagine some other woman - some disposable woman who is not as good as their mother or daughter- to actually be the prostitute.
If you wouldn't want your own mother or daughter sucking dick for money, then don't wish it for someone else's daughter.
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Insults aren't convincing
[Read the article: Who cares if Eliot Spitzer hires prostitutes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, I think hardcore porn should be illegal. No, I don't think sex it dirty. Yes, I think that the law should regulate some behavior that others might lable as private - for example I think that dynamite should be restricted because it's too dangerous to be openly available. Some might argue that no one has committed a crime by collecting dozens of sticks of dynamite. I think that's nuts.
In Amsterdam, a city I love, they decided to regulate prostitution. The results have been that women are still exploited by pimps and "loverboys". Few are enjoying a great, high paying profession. It's the same brutal, degrading crap as anywhere else.
And I'm looking in the mirror and smiling - damn, I'm hot!
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L.W.M.
[Read the article: Who cares if Eliot Spitzer hires prostitutes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who will make the determination as to what constitutes hardcore porn?
I know it when I see it. yukyukyuk
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daniel28
[Read the article: Who cares if Eliot Spitzer hires prostitutes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are you familiar with a popular legal business venture called PORNOGRAPHY? It is where many daughters, sisters, mothers and brothers are paid to.....suck dick.
You didn't read far enough - I already said I was against porn. Here's a quote from another salon article to understand why ...
"That is why I am writing. I want to tell your readers that this [porn] is not an industry like the others, that once you get in you can't go back. ... I hope other people can avoid falling into this. This is not a normal industry, it is messed up, and people will pretend to be your friends but they are not; they are all just using you. Yes, they use you in other industries, but in other industries the consequences are less severe. You don't experience the same level of fear once you're out of them.
Sometimes I think about killing myself, but mostly I try and pretend it never happened, or write it off as a colorful chapter of my youth. "
http://dir.salon.com/story/books/letters/2005/03/16/porn2/index.html?source=search&aim=/books/letters
Keep dreaming that porn doesn't hurt anyone.
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joshuanoyes
[Read the article: Who cares if Eliot Spitzer hires prostitutes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Josh, I think there are a lot of people who ignore the misery that prostitution and porn cause because it suits them to do so. These are the same people who decry explotation in other areas of life - for the politically oppressed and downtrodden, for example. They hide behind "liberty" and "privacy" but the truth is they don't care how many people, mostly women but not exclusively women, are harmed in the prostitution and porn industries.
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more from everyone's fav poster - Mizmoon
[Read the article: Who cares if Eliot Spitzer hires prostitutes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]LWM, just to be clear - I have never been in porn, or a hooker for that matter. I was quoting another letter from a salon story that struck me. That woman made the case I have made for years - the porn industry is abusive and damaging in a unique way.
As for the abortion/porn industry analogy below, I don't think that sticks because an abortion is a medical procedure that happens in private but porn makes private sex public by design. I think that's the point. Thanks for the kudos - I realize my position is unpopular but I feel it's important to make the case not from the position of moral zeal but from the position of a liberal standing up for what's I feel is right - protecting those who would otherwise be exploited.