Pandy · 11 answers · 1mo
What are your thoughts on the profession of prostitution?
What are your thoughts on the profession of prostitution?
As long as they don't disturb a family or going further than it's a job, I don't really care. I know some people from the night world. Some got into it to pay their bills, some got trapped and didn't know they would work like that, while some do it happily and take other peoples husband. The last one is a no no for me.
It should be legalized everywhere. There are some of my online friends that do this and I don't see any reason why they should be punished.
It takes a lot to be able to work as a sex worker. And it is in general underpaid I guess. And it is also in general not valued enough. Hence the underpayment.
I think it's sad - like shelter and food, human intimacy is another essential part of life that became a commodity to be traded for economic gain...I don't think it should be a crime to engage in it, though...I feel like we should be examining why some feel like they have to do it to get by...imagine you're a pretty 22 year old - you might ask yourself why you'd become, say, a teacher or a nurse when you can make several times the money on OnlyFans or actually escorting and live a lot easier, it's tempting - maybe fewer people would do it if their material needs were met in other ways
On an idealistic level, I think it's perfectly fine and fair, women should be able to exercise autonomy over their body and sell it if they want. And the men desperately need the sex, so it's win/win. More realistically, I'm suspicious of whether it has detrimental effects on a woman's psyche (probably depending on the woman), but even in that case I don't think that justifies making it illegal. In fact, prostitution is actually safer for women (and men) when it's legal, I'm guessing with respect to both physical violence/homicide and STIs, and prostitution is going to happen whether it's legal or not.
The most unfortunate thing about prostitution is that a lot of women have no choice but to get into it to live, which could be seen as justification for making it illegal, but that doesn't make sense to me, because if you're not willing to give them money to live on for free, you might as well give them the choice to get it themselves...it's their choice, they obviously find the inconvenience of having to have sex with gross men they don't even like worth being able to live and have money.
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