According to Melissa Farley and Victor Malarek, because I support legalized prostitution, I must be a john, because only they could ever be so blind to the coercion and exploitation present in sex work. Their NY Times op-ed, The Myth of the Victimless Crime, is one of the most tendentious and uncharitable contributions to the prostitution legalization discussion that I’ve ever seen. This, my friends, is a direct quote:
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.
So I guess Matt Yglesias, Brad Plumer, Megan McArdle, Kerry Howley, Julian Sanchez and the legislators of the Netherlands and Nevada spend most of their time with hookers.
I wouldn't say most of my time. I do have to earn money, you know. And there's my needlepoint. When you're this close to finishing that life-sized Elvis tapestry, it's hard to turn your attention to other things.
I wouldn't say most of my time. I do have to earn money, you know. And there's my needlepoint. When you're this close to finishing that life-sized Elvis tapestry, it's hard to turn your attention to other things.
I don't think the two activities have to be mutually exclusive.
" wouldn't say most of my time. I do have to earn money, you know."
I suppose you could engage in prostitution to pay for your prostitution habit.
I wonder if you could treat it as a commodities market, where you're just buying and selling the sex on paper, but not actually getting the product ... unless you forget to close the contract. Then you wind up with 20,000 BJs you didn't want.
I don't think the two activities have to be mutually exclusive.
That would make for some of the oddest porn the interwebs have ever scene.
Elivis Presley or Elvis Costello?
Then you wind up with 20,000 BJs you didn't want.
What would a margin call look like?
Aaron:
Rule 34.
Actually, the victims of prostitution are the johns who are tempted by the prostitutes. They can't help themselves. Poor Eliot.
Aaron / M. Earl: I'm not goint to link to it, but if you google for "nerdpr0n dear lord knitting porn", the first hit (NSFW) validates Rule 34 for this thread.
It’s the men who buy prostitutes...
Prostitutes, like Congressmen, can't be bought. They can only be rented.
Um...I didn't notice Megan claiming that prostitution is glamorous, or that women get rich from it; I believe she holds out the possibility that it turns some of them on, but obviously not most. And I definitely don't think that Dutch legislation begins "Recognizing: 1. That women, despite mainly claiming that sex for pay is disgusting, secretly dig it; 2. That sex work is totally glamorous and fashionable; 3...."
According to Melissa Farley and Victor Malarek, because I support legalized prostitution, I must be a john
Do Melissa and Victor think that the prostitutes support legalized prostitution? And if not, why not?