In a message dated 98-12-05 09:56:45 EST, you write: << I mean you are not an exotic dancer yourself I take it? To have a holier than thou attitude is fine if you know everything about everything that a person does and why they do it, if you don't I think it is quite problematic. >> Hi! Sandy, no I am not - not in public anyway (ha ha!). Really, I think erotic things are beautiful - the human body is so beautiful sometimes- so interesting - and nudity is so sensual - I personally love erotic art - not pornography as depicting the body as an instrument of pleasure - but art - portraying the body as beautiful, sensual, etc. But, to put a price tag on human body - that's another story - If God wanted us to have price tags we would have been born with them. As for putting forth dangerous exceptions - When it is OK to sell yourself short? I say never! Especially not for money. When she indicated that she knew or she felt she was compromising herself - right there her instincts are telling her that she is doing something wrong - So to that I say stop if you can! Find healthy alternatives, don't compromise yourself - especially not for money. I know that education is expensive - but I know people who worked 3 jobs at once to put themselves through college - none of the jobs compromised their principles! Honestly, if she felt she was doing something beautiful, bringing happiness to men with her dancing and she felt no remorse - then there really is no problem in a way. Yet, by her own omission there is a problem - she is compromising what she believes - She probably believes that what she is doing is hurting women in the greater scheme of things - it can or it can not - depends on how you look at it. It's like this: It doesn't matter if it's right It doesn't matter if it's fair It doesn't matter if you don't like It doesn't matter if it hurts you advertantly or inadvertantly Why - because I am making a lot of money doing it! The dangerous exception is this: it's OK because I am making a lot of money doing it and to heck with what it does to you! That is what the lumber companies, papermills, gas and oil companies, mining companies and everyone else who is tearing up the Earth for greed is saying to you - and what do you say to that? Oh come on have some integrity for nature? - why not say that to humans? Afterall, we are nature in nature! Also, hitman for the mob, men who batter seals over the head, men who kill tigers for the bones - All for money - it's Ok to be bad because of money? Because money brings happiness? Or is it love first - to heck with how much money is to be had! Peace! Angela
