On May 19, 2009, at 2:35 PM, ravi wrote:
On May 19, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
On May 19, 2009, at 1:54 PM, raghu wrote:
I mean, doesn't it bother you that there are women in such desperate
poverty that they are forced to sell their body to survive?
This is a long debate, and not for PEN-L, but there are a lot of
women (and some men) in the sex work business who would disagree
vehemently.
But disagree with what? Surely they wouldn't disagree with the fact
that "there are women in such desperate poverty that they are forced
to sell their body to survive"?
Everyone with any sense would disagree that performance of an erotic
service for pay amounts to selling one's body (rather than one's labor
power).
But who would disagree with that there are women--and men, and
children--who are forced to sell their labor power to owners of
intensely polluting factories (under conditions worse than those in
most any brothel) in order to survive? So why the extraspecial
outrage when that terrible word "sex" is mentioned?
...among human activities, prostitution today surely lies on that
part of the line where the human rights violations far outnumber the
instances of free choice...
If so, that is solely because of the monstrous violation of human
rights involved in the illegal status of sex work--to the advantage
only of preachers, prosecutors, pimps, policemen, and politicians.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures."
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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