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The comments are the real story.
A woman equating legalising prostitution with legalising pedophilia.
That is the absolutist mindset that dominates the debate.
One commenter says not all sexworkers are underage, many are normal and do it by choice.
He is challenged by someone asking how he knows this.
The implication is that if he consorts with prostitutes he is immoral and his opinion is invalid.
It is almost impossible to have any rational discussion about this. Look at the farce that was C36.
Right and left wing fanatics are free to make up any kind of nonsense and spout it as fact. Actual customers, the people who really deal with the women, are treated as pariahs and discredited and insulted. Women sex workers are condescendingly looked on as fallen and unreliable.
So only one side gets to speak freely and publically. The other side is belittled and not taken seriously.
A woman equating legalising prostitution with legalising pedophilia.
That is the absolutist mindset that dominates the debate.
One commenter says not all sexworkers are underage, many are normal and do it by choice.
He is challenged by someone asking how he knows this.
The implication is that if he consorts with prostitutes he is immoral and his opinion is invalid.
It is almost impossible to have any rational discussion about this. Look at the farce that was C36.
Right and left wing fanatics are free to make up any kind of nonsense and spout it as fact. Actual customers, the people who really deal with the women, are treated as pariahs and discredited and insulted. Women sex workers are condescendingly looked on as fallen and unreliable.
So only one side gets to speak freely and publically. The other side is belittled and not taken seriously.
The analogy I like to use in debate is housekeeper. Some housekeepers do it to pay the bills and support their family, some actually enjoy the act (believe it or not), and some are brought into the country illegally and forced into indentured service and even abused (while someone else keeps their passport). We need to stop people being trapped into it obviously, but are you going to outlaw housekeeping to do it? Even if you would never "stoop" to being a housekeeper yourself and couldn't understand someone wanting to do it for a living, is that reason to take it away from those who think differently than you and choose it?
