why is prostitution so vilified

[sevenofnine]

I fail to understand why prostitution is so vilified,

I just don't get it, from a moral stand point you can come down either way, but you can on a lot of things booze, tobacco gambling. So lets just leave out morality for a second.

I am looking at my retirement from work, just looking at my financial situation, I will manage nothing to brag about better then some worse then others.

My sp is older and also looking at her financial situation and her golden years, she is better them me, and still doing well.

There is a guy I know, 64 and looking at assisted living healthier then shit, but never really worked in his entire life. Moved from one sofa to another in peoples houses most of his life a free loader,,
How many young people I know not working living on welfare or social assistance of some sort of government handout. Quite a few actually,

I know one or two women who haven't fiqured out anything more then how to crank out babies, so they can get some man to support her, then when he throws her out and her kid welfare, then they eventually loose custody and guess what they are pregnant again and the cycle continues supported by a team of social workers and legal aid.

My sp worked her entire life starting at sixteen the last twenty or so as an sp, never taking a dime from the government, paying her own legal bills accountants real estate people etc,
she has earned a good life in her latter years, so have I we have both worked for them,

While other people have simply been a drain on the system to lazy to work in and out of jail all supported by social services and legal aid.

I am pissed off, the taxes I have to pay, I am finally collecting Canada pension worked all my life for it, and the tax hit, shit,

While others do nothing never have but just suck up the tax dollars. Its easy for them yet you should hear them bitch, about this country and the government that doesn't help them support them enough.

You know my sp has even paid taxes a hell of a lot more then I have I venture to say, and I have paid to dam much.

I wish these people these government officials would get real and see where the burden of society is, the drain on society is, it certainly isn't my sp, and ladies like her,

They need protection safe working places. Why does a drug addict get a safe environment to shoot up but my sp doesn't get one to work in.
Laws that protect them from pimps and bad clients and bad working conditions, and being trafficked


you know everyone is worried about prostitution is it wrong harmful.
there missing, it,

its your attitude around sex that is wrong, your emotions, the respect or dignity you give to the person your with.
and you know something, prostitution has very little to do with the way people feel or approach sex.

how we feel about sex and treat the opposite sex is a cultural thing and has almost nothing to do with prostitution.


drugs gambling is more of a cancer to our society then prostitution.
the crap movies and music they produce, has more to do with how we see women then prostitution.

Were making women and sex commodities more then ever before, prostitutes are simply cashing in, like everyone else.

 

[76duster]

Because the women who aren't prostitutes think the prostitutes are taking their money that the man has promised them, and that the man spends his sexual energy on the prostitute and not her, and that the man might fall in love with the prostitute. Then they shame the men who go see prostitutes and most men in turn knuckle under and vilify prostitution in general.

 

[WingedHorse]

All "vices" are vilified by some segment of society. That part of society that does not use the vice will inevitably vilify it.

Consumption of alcohol was a vice, banned at one point, until it finally became clear that this was creating more problems than it was solving.

Gambling is a vice, also banned at some point, now opened up, though there is a push back to it.

Smoking is a vice, not illegal, but being gradually banned.

Prostitution is a vice, not really banned in Canada (until maybe now), but definitely "in the shadows".

There is a certain segment of society that enjoys the vices and cannot control themselves. They become addicted. Those people are held up as the examples of why the vice needs to be banned. Poor Joe gambled, drank and spent all of his money on prostitutes. Now he is broke. We need therefore to ban all the vices to protect all the other "Joes" who will get addicted.

The reality, of course, is that the "addict Joes" are going to gamble, drink and spend all their money on prostitutes whether it is legal or not. They will just become criminals as a result, in addition to their other problems.

The majority of people that I know (admittedly high paid professionals) who gamble, and/or drink and/or spend money on prostitutes do it in a controlled, enjoyable way. It does not interfere with their lives. It enhances their lives by giving them an outlet from their high stress professions.

Banning these vices will only serve to make "addict Joe" a criminal, and force everyone else to either become a criminal as well, or cease the vices completely - leading to less enjoyment of life, probably more stress, and potentially psychological issues such as anxiety and depression.

"Vices" are not necessarily "bad" things. They provide outlets. They allow people to relax. People need this.

The problem is that there is a vocal segment of society who does not engage in "vices" who think no one else should as well. They of course have their own "vice" - just a more socially acceptable one.