Letters to the Editor
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Brava, Carol
Indeed, it is *not* all about men victimizing women. More states should follow the example of Nevada, which would provide regulation, tax revenue, combat STD's, and further empower women who work in this field.
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Still nothing
in Broadsheet or from Joan about Ferraro's comments.
So being a feminist, and wanting to vote for Hillary because it's time for a woman to lead, also means that any feminist icon can say whatever bigoted drivel she wants and no one with call her out for it?
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genital mutilation isn't funny
Just for the sake of perspective, I don't think it would be OK for a husband aggrieved by his wife's cheating to go after her clitoris with a razor. The same should hold true for a man's "other head" or his testicles, or anything else. Seriously, it's not all that funny.
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re: It's not all about men victimizing women.
Neither is the porn trade
or domestic violence
and even rape is not limited to men victimizing women...
but most of the victims are women.
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It is why I no longer read the New York Times.
It is why I moved away from the East Coast.
It is infested with rampant man hatred. They put words in men's mouths, then tear down their resulting straw men.
The New York Times can screech all it wants, I pity the men trapped in its maws.
"Whose theory is it that prostitution is victimless? It's the men who buy prostitutes who spew the myths that women choose prostitution, that they get rich, that it's glamorous and that it turns women on."
spew? very harsh words designed to elicit hatred towards men.
No job is victimless. I am a victim because despite my years of hard work at my thankless jobs I have managed to accrue only an amount less than what these women can put away in ONE YEAR or less.
As for the prostitution 'turning women on' part, it sounds like a wet dream of the author rather than a reality check. Most guys who frequent call girls are under no illusions that the girls love them or that they enjoy the sex in the same way they would with a lover.
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Mostly Agree
with you and I think you make some great points, especially about male prostitutes, which has often been left out of this debate. Although you don't explicitly state it, clients of male prostitutes (or "gigolos") do include women, even if the vast majority are men. However, I do take exception to this comment:
"And if it wasn't part of a private agreement to explore other sexual vistas, you better believe that his wife has reason to have both of his heads on a platter."
I do not believe she would have any right to cut off his penis or sexually mutilate him in any way. What she has is a good reason to get a divorce. Sexual violence is not acceptable under any circumstances in my book, and I hope the irony is not lost on you of including this snarky comment only a few posts after one on female genital mutilation wherein the debate has centered in part on the men's supposed advocacy of FGM as a way to prevent female infidelity. You do yourself and your objectivity a great disservice with this one.
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Nicely Done
Thank you for your clear headed appraisal.
For the record, I have never paid for sex, nor have I cheated on my wife, but there is something unseemly about the way female prostitutes are treated by some feminists. I always get the feeling that they are enlightened women who think that these poor "hookers" are just too dumb to actually decide for themselves how to pay the bills - and that is hypocrisy. If a woman, or a man, is a prostitute because they are a drug addict or a victim of sexual abuse, the tragedy is the drug addiction and the sex abuse, not the prostitution. Many people are abused and enslaved to do jobs they don't want to do, there are child prostitutes, and child factory workers, and both of them should be rescued. If a woman is being forced to have sex with someone against her will that is not prostitution, that is rape, and rape is a horrible crime. If Alexandra Dupre decided that being a prostitute was the best way for her to pay the bills, then leave her alone. She appears to be an intelligent, resourceful woman; I am sure she could have paid the bills another way. There are thousands and thousands of young people making a living in the big city without having to be sex worker.
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mkrex555 & LibTex
You do understand what wanting someone's head on a platter means, right? That it is a metaphor for wanting someone fired/chastised/brought-to-justice, yes? And you can further see that "wanting both his heads on a platter" is simply a riff on this that emphasizes the sexual nature of the cause for complaint?
If you can't understand this and honestly think she meant sexual mutilation, why aren't you also taking her to task for demanding his beheading?
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Its not the prostitution,
its the human trafficking and the coercion and beating women to keep them in line and, I suppose, discriminating based on motherhood status.
Legalizing prostitution will not end all of these practices, but legalization will create some brothels that are openly known to authorities where johns would get some reassurance about the safety and security of the transaction and prostitutes would get the same. The agreements between operators of brothels and escort services and prostitutes would be enforceable in court and so would agrements between those parties and customers. People could call the cops if there was trouble.
Overall the safety all participants in commercial sex would be worlds ahead of where it is now.
Also, there would probably be more prostitution than there is now. That is a likely outcome of legalization and it shoudn't be discounted.
In general I would prefer to have more of a dubious thing if the thing itself became overall safer and less nasty.
I prefer to legalize booze and take a few thousand extra drunk driving deaths a year and more alchoholism etc. rather than the rampant criminality and reduced consumption that prohibition brought.
What does everyone else want?