Letters to the Editor
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Far-fetched....
Are the Alexandra Duprees of the world really so rare? The Emperor Club VIP consists of just her and nothing but trafficked women?
The small town hookers from Tina's referenced article aren't trafficked or coerced or minors. Sad and broken and desperate, sure, but not there by anything more than their own choices. They're American adults.
I accede that in large metro areas there are a disproportionate amount of trafficked women. They're easier to hide in a crowd.
But are most of the hookers in America's small towns all Eastern European, Latin American and Asian? Who were America's prostitutes during the early pre-global market and travel era?
Just saying, overall more of our sex workers are home-grown and above age than has been argued here.
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RammyH asks:
"Do two adults doing things to each other, even weird, disgusting and degrading things, for money, affect me in my daily life? Short of keeping me awake if they're loud and next door?"
No, probably not directly. But these people live on your block. They're part of your world. Their drug problems can become your problem. Their domestic violence problems can become your problem. Their health problems can become your problem. In a lot of cases, you're going to have to pick up the tab.
I've argued elsewhere that the economics of legalization don't work out. The lion's share of the cost of regulation will be borne by the general public, not the industry, and there will be a limit to its effectiveness. That's a result of the anytime/anyplace nature of sex work.
I'm trying to skirt the moral issues in favor of practical arguments against legalization. My underlying assumption is that the ban promotes more, not less, freedom by providing some degree of protection to a lot of people who'd consider selling themselves short.
But, in closing, the scenario you depict happens all the time, even while prostitution is illegal. Police forces have not made it their business to crackdown on any and all exchanges of sex for money. They've focused on containing the illegal trade.
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Police forces have not made it their business to crackdown on any and all exchanges of sex for money. They've focused on containing the illegal trade.
This is absolutely false. They crack down where it makes the biggest splash. If they were really interested in stopping trafficing and abuse they would ENCOURAGE adult women to work independently on craigslist. They don't, they bust it ALL THE TIME BECAUSE IF THEY DIDN"T THERE WOULD BE LOTS OF WOMEN WORKING IT AND IT WOULD BECOME AS MAINSTREAM AS PORN IS. By never allowing an open look Tina and those like hare are able to maintain their fantasies, just like she fantasized in the 80s that every porn set was a rape scene.
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The biggest reason tina wants to keep it illegal is because if the "emperors club" was legal it would cost 1/10th as much
there would be no need for all the overhead caused by it's illegality. Any average or better looking girl who likes sex could get paid for it, just like gay boys do now (although their would be more opportunities for more women because there are more straight men than gay men and because there are many more women than men who are off the unpaid market). This is the scenario that Tina AND the cultural right are of one mind in their desperation to prevent.
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guys
RammyH, I'm not really interested in your ultra-conservative viewpoint of just allowing everybody to wallow in their own shit. People need help sometimes, especially when they are being psychologically intimidated and beaten up by assholes, who then ask them to spread AIDS in the community. Sorry, not seeing, won't see it. The end.
Dick, I'm sorry no pretty or even average looking woman will have sex with you, but if you thinking making them available for sale will solve your problem, it really won't--they will blow you but they still won't like you. But then I don't think you care.