Letters to the Editor
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The other side of the coin...
@Leeandra: Yes, and with ballet -- you're using a part of your body that God or evolution gave you to walk and dance with. What's your point?
People keep elevating sex to this sacred thing that should not be subjected to the same kind of work and thought that we've given to every other part of our lives. Duh, it's used for reproduction, but it's also a creative (in the artistic sense) and a recreational act.
-- I notice that all the harms of prostitution cited by tina and others have been gleaned from a. ILLEGAL prostitution, in which clients aren't screened and the women or men in the trade aren't given routine medical examinations or b. legal prostitution that's exploited by a poor country to draw in tourists. The same country also lacks the resources or doesn't care to protect its people.
I also find it odd that people on this board apparently haven't thought or didn't want to mention that, ya know, some women like to pay for sex too. And just because some people might find it convenient or desirable to pay for sex doesn't make them morally depraved. What people here are actually denouncing is violence. And repeat after me: Prostitution DOES NOT EQUAL violence.
Lastly. I'm not familiar with the situation in those countries where it's legal already. But, so the pros in the Netherlands might be lower-income and not the average middle-class Dutch girl? Um, so what? Why should they be looked down upon for providing such a service when they're probably earning more money that way than as waitresses?
The sexual double standard doesn't just come from men. It's apparently from women on this board as well.