I think it's disgusting
And I would never date a man I knew had visited one because I think payting for sex puts you into a certain category. Pretty much every study has shown that women who enter prostitution are likely to have far higher rates of mental illness, be sexually diseased and unable to experience pleasure in a normal sexual relationship. That's apart from the fairly strong link between being abused as a child, or sexually assaulted as an adult.

We don't legalise child labour because it might give a way for children to help support their families so why should we legalise an industry that brings those sort of problems with it
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:24, 4 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

You've obviously never watched Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Prostitution is glamourous and sexy
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:25, Reply)

see also: Pretty Woman

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:27, Reply)

which was originally called "three thousand dollars"
but they felt that highlighted the prostitution part rather than the romantic part.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:28, Reply)

Is that the one where Macooly Cokein got killed by bees?

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:29, Reply)

EPIC GLESS

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:33, Reply)

I'm going to assume this was deliberate
And maybe even an attempt to start it as a meme.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:35, Reply)

It was deliberate
And I don't want a meme I just want a day of glessing for a change.

Are you coming to my birthday party in March?
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:36, Reply)

You said, repeatedly I might add, that I'm not welcome.

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:37, Reply)

Oh course you are
I wuv oo
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:37, Reply)

Good job it's already in my calendar then innit

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:38, Reply)

woot woot to the woot woot

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:43, Reply)

It wasn't deliberate, but I knew it was wrong and wasn't bothered to change it =)

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:38, Reply)

I was talking about TGB's repeated use of "gless"
I never question your typing Gonz :)
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:39, Reply)

if only

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:34, Reply)

I'm changing my sig for that, in honour of your genius.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:35, Reply)

Oh I wanted a sig from that too :(

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:37, Reply)

Also - see Pretty Woman.
It always ends in happiness except when Vippers says the same just before I post.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:28, Reply)

this is very true
My argument is ruined :(
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:29, Reply)

It's the oldest proffession hon!
You'll never get rid of it so we can try to make it safer is all.
( girlinthehole, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:27, Reply)

We can always make things better
But in this case it isn't by legalising it. An official way for (mainly woman) to sell their bodies rather than get a real job, and to have it destigmatised. Reducing sex down to a transaction in which all the power results with the customer is more than a llittle disturbing. Nor will it tackle the prblem with illegal sex workers because the profits are too big, and you're talking about relying on punters to go the legal route- hardly the most morally upstanding person around. Do you think most of them really care about whether their prostitute is here legally- or for that matter has consented.

Sorry about mistakes am on my phone
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:37, Reply)

I think you would be very surprised at how many people care whether they are here legally or has consented.
not implying that I know, but I think it would be surprising.

it is never going to go away, so legalising and regulating is the best that can be done to reduce the issues with it.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:41, Reply)

No offence
I find it difficult to believe that a Latvian girl who doesn't speak English has many customers worried about the fine detail of consent
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:53, Reply)

not offensive in the slightest
I suspect your are correct on that point. I can't say I know all that much about the statistics of how many prostitutes are in what situation.

Can't really make much of an argument without that.

The point being though, it's shit as it is, if something can be done through regulation that helps some, without hurting others, then surely it should be done
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:06, Reply)

if a lot of women became prostitues imagine how many job openings there would be for other folk

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:42, Reply)

Taking the moral highground isn't going to help either.
It's just far to endemic in society to ban outright. The more you push it underground then the more dangerous it becomes. The best thing is to concentrate on tackling the non-consensual side of the prostitution business and let the women who choose to work be safe and healthy.
( girlinthehole, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:45, Reply)

Agreed.
I would be overjoyed if the Government allowed my bitches and hos some form of health and insurance plans.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:48, Reply)

Health and insurance plans?
We're not American
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:51, Reply)

some of us still have private health care/insurance

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:54, Reply)

Shows what kind of jobs I want
that I've never seen it offered haha
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:57, Reply)

I get dental as well.
the private staff are so much hotter than NHS ones.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:00, Reply)

I don't understand people who say this
taking the moral high ground isn't some sort of academic wishy-washy if only the world was better, it's an step towards saying the world *should* be better and it's our choice about whether we try and make it so.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:56, Reply)

Good luck with that.

( girlinthehole, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:00, Reply)

I'll probably fail
nothing will ever change in my lifetime and likely nothing will ever change because of me. But at least I'll have given it a shot
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:02, Reply)

We can change things but not in grand sweeping gestures of all or nothing.
You do what you can where you can and in the places that need it the most.
( girlinthehole, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:04, Reply)

It can't be the oldest profession.
Unless there already other professions around then nobody could have afforded to pay for the whores.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:44, Reply)

Ok then.
ONE of the oldest professions Mr Pedantic.
( girlinthehole, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:47, Reply)

It's also not really a profession, just a job.

( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:47, Reply)

I think it is a profession.
Most women who do it do no other type of work in their lives.
( girlinthehole, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:56, Reply)

That's not a profession
that's a job. A profession requires specific educational training as far as I remember i.e. doctor, teacher, lawyer. Being a prostitute means lying on your back and faking not being repulsed.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:01, Reply)

Have you tried it?
I can't imagine it's easy.
( girlinthehole, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:05, Reply)

I hadn't considered it before
but if I was paying for it, I'd want the hooker to be some kind of medal winning sex athelete who could and would blow my mind.

I think that is what my brain would assume to be the norm, rather than the exception. It's a bit odd in here.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:13, Reply)

Whereas looking at the inhabitants
of St Pauls in Bristol what you're going to get is broken-down old nag
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:20, Reply)

mind cock
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:20, Reply)

I'd find it hard
but no offence the type of people who go into it don't really seem to find it hard. But yes, physically I imagine it's rather easy
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:13, Reply)

The type of people who go into it don't really seem to find it hard?
What is the 'type' and how do you know how flippantly they have entered the 'business' or whether they did it willingly at all?
That's really mean.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:18, Reply)

There is no type
*shrugs* the point I was trying to make is they're still doing it. If it was that hard they would find some way to quit. And if they did it unwillingly- that is rape, and they don't find it easy obviously. We're talking though about women who have presumably consented.

The reason *I* would find it hard is I have no motivating desperation or reason why I have to and thus the idea of sex for money is repulsive.

Sorry if it came across as being horrible though
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:21, Reply)

Some of them have 'boyfriends' who beat them.
Some of them have been being used this way since they were teenagers and have such little self-esteem or independent thought that they can't even comtemplate a way out.
You can't assume that because they can't/won't do what you would do in that situation that they deserve everything they get, and really love lying on their back pretending not to be repulsed.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:25, Reply)

Doesn't sound like
an argument in favour of prostitution to me. Nor is it the sort of thing that will be stamped out by legalisation.

How on earth have I said they deserve everything they get? They are obviously and patently victims. They are also victims of a system that doesn't actually seem to see much wrong with this going ahead and people paying money to take advantage of them. Legalising it isn't going to change anything.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:30, Reply)

I wasn't talking about legalising it
I was talking about how you were implying it was easy and that if they wanted to leave they'd have left by now, and how there is a 'type'.
The world has many shades of grey, that's all I'm saying. Using terms like 'type' will get us nowhere. If you're debating something like this you can't make assumptions or bring your prejudices into it.
I'm not debating whether or not to legalise it, but the way you expressed your views made me feel a bit sad.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:34, Reply)

To be fair
I made it quite clear that when I said easy I was talking about physically, rather than mentally. People are tougher mentally than they are physically.

We may have to agree to disagree but I can't ever find prostitution right or morally acceptable, and I thought I'd made it relatively clear that it isn't the prostitutes I'm blaming but the demand for them.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:42, Reply)

I never said it was right or morally acceptable, so I don't know exactly what we're disagreeing on.
I'll ruminate on things like this, but I don't get vehement because I reckon that there's always something life can teach me.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:45, Reply)

Haha I think we might have got
our wires crossed. I can be a bit judgemental sometimes I know but usually it's just because I get too impassioned about things
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:51, Reply)

if you are saying the demand for them is the problem
maybe more women just need to be slags?

you've only got yourselves to blame here
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:47, Reply)

Are you officially starting the Campaign for More Whores?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:48, Reply)

no
more slags = less whores
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:49, Reply)

But that's not catchy enough!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:52, Reply)

I'll work on it

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:53, Reply)

Oh, for crying out loud...
fewer whores, you dribbling oaf!
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:53, Reply)

that was deliberate
it's a slogan that dumb slags need to understand, and by this I do not in any way mean Roota or Amberl
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:54, Reply)

It can be
"Kill me some animal and make me a fire and I'll let you have sex on me"
(PsychoChomp, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:50, Reply)

That's not prostitution, that's Welsh seduction.

( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:53, Reply)

Pretty much every study
is funded by groups that have a vested interest in studies resulting in exactly those outcomes.

not disagreeing with you, just saying.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:34, Reply)

Have you read Michael Chriton's "State of Fear" ?
It's an awesome book which brings to light the the argument between 'Industrialists' and 'environmentalist'... and how they _both_ have an invested interest in the studies to the arguement.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:39, Reply)

I think a lot of people who pay for sex are creeps.
At an old place I worked, they would talk about it all the time, they would talk about what I would consider abuse of these women, and I felt sickened when I heard these stories. [I just wrote one of them, and felt I didn't want that sort of thing on here, so I've replaced it with this note]

But what about :-
- The widow who just wants to feel a human touch without while he waits to die to be with their partner?
- The buisnesman who doesn't want to hurt anyone because his life is 100% buisness but wants the occasional human touch?
- The young kid who is to shy to be phsyicly (fakely) intermet with someone else?
- The 40 year old virgin?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:37, Reply)

intermet
haha please stop I'm not supposed to be laughing at work
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:40, Reply)

Like TGB your list made me laugh
but sadly I think you'll find the categories of bereaved widower and shy internet virgins don't make up a very large percentage
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:49, Reply)

Hello?
have you been paying ANY attention to where you're posting?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:50, Reply)

Haha!
This is very true *goes off to find a prostitute for herself*
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 15:58, Reply)

I've been reading to many books =(

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 16:04, Reply)