On Nov 29, 2004, at 7:56 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
From: Ritu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I get the feeling we are all being armchair experts here. It would be
best if we listened to one who had some experience in such matters. I
have no doubt there are women (and perhaps men) who are pushed into
prostitution, either by force, or by economic necessity. Equally, there
are some who choose it, of their own free will. Perhaps if we all
chipped in $5, we could book an hour or two for discussions with someone
who knew :)
But, when one quotes people who have worked with women in the sex industry,
their efforts are discounted.
You haven't quoted anyone working in the sex industry.
My wife worked with strippers as part of her
work with incest survivors. That convinced me to not go to strip joints.
Not because it was immoral because seeing semi-naked women was immoral, but
because of the stories she relayed about why the women were in that line of
business. When I relayed her work, it was meant with the objection that it
was a self selected sample. When it was pointed out that the survey was
taken at one establishment, the hypothesis that somehow that was that
establishment was chosen by a network of women who were sexually abused as
children.
So far you haven't supplied contrary evidence. In fact you've supplied nothing at all except, at best, hearsay.
Interesting you seem unwilling to carry on this discussion by anything but proxy. Is your argument really so weak that all you can do now is try to appear rational by whining to someone else about how your data is rejected? Oo, oo, big bad Warren, I can't talk to him because he keeps asking me where my facts are.
Well, your data hasn't been rejected, Dan -- you've completely failed to present any data to reject. So much for being "happy" to be corrected.
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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