----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 9:48 AM Subject: Re: More hypocrisy on display than skin
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 09:26:57 -0600, Dan Minette > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > No you weren't. You were asked whether prostitution was unhealthy and > > > you responded with the non sequitar that lots of people who practice > > > prostitution were sexually abused as children. This has nothing to do > > > with whether prostitution is inherently unhealthy. > > > > Nothing? So, you are saying the fact that sex workers, even strippers, are > > overwhelmingly people who have been subject to sexual abuse, with the > > inherent risk to sexual self image that is associated with that abuse is > > meaningless. There is no interest in why this might be true, and how it > > sheds light on the nature of the occupation. > > I'm not uninterested in the relationship between between sexual abuse > and sex workers but that is a different question to whether or not the > concepts of prostitution, pornography, etc are inherently unhealthy. It is a different, related question. There is a hypothesis that clearly fits the data, including comments by sex workers. Women who feel that they already are in a degraded state with regards to sex are much more likely to take a job that is inherently degrading. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
