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, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

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)