----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 1:14 PM Subject: Re: More hypocrisy on display than skin
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 01:06:20PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote: > > > The personal history of people involved in something is totally > > irrelevant to what they are involved in? Is that what you are saying? > > No. I wrote clearly, and so did several others. I'm not going to repeat > it for a 4th or 5th time. You obviously have a mental block here. Let's see, you said People engage in impersonal commerce all the time We should be careful about making conclusions about correlations Women can make choices My data are not relevant. Perhaps a good way to get rid of the problems of prostitution is to remove the religious prohibition against it. I gave data that I saw as relevant. For example, if the problem is religious presuppositions, then one would tend to find prostitutes coming from atheistic or agnostic families in vastly disproportional numbers. One would tend to find strong correlations between churchgoing countries and the problems prostitutes have there. Looking again at strippers. Especially in the '80s, Houston was a wide open town in many ways. Strip clubs were socially acceptable enough so that I knew of managers meetings that put strip clubs on the expense account as a "male bonding experience." The stigma for strip clubs was not that high...guys openly talked about it. I just talked to my daughter, and she told me my viewpoint on prostitution was in the mainstream of feminism. She also has a friend who has a recent degree in sociology and should have a number of references on this subject that I can forward. So, more documentation should be forthcoming. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
