@Cakers3 wrote:
@Moonchilde wrote:
This is like the issue of prostitution. No matter what the situation, what the woman says, there are women who insist that every female on the planet who exchanges sexual favors for money or possessions IS being exploited, period, "even if they don't realize/don't understand that they are."
Balderdash, outside of human trafficking.There are many things a woman can do to earn money that isn't prostitution. Will she make as much money? Probably not - but she will keep the self-respect that supposedly matters above all (or should) to the "all are exploited" insisters. She may have to get a second job, or accept welfare. But she could make the choice to do that. If she instead makes the choice to sleep with men for money instead of working as hard as she would have to work otherwise, that IS a choice.
And yet people insist that women who are selling themselves in one way or another are "exploited" and it's always "not their fault/they're not responsible for understanding."
Pleez.
@Moonchilde Your post is doing exactly the same thing-using one big paintbrush to determine why a woman ends up as a prostitute as you say that posters who say that all women are being expolited is just "bladerdash".
Somethimes the choice is not so easily available and I'm really surprised to read that all prostitutes can just get welfare, a second job, etc. etc. etc.
The sale of sex is more complex than just assuming that the woman chooses to be in that profession.
I am sorry to see lack of compassion for women "of the streets"; the answers are neither simple nor one size fits all.
My point is that one size doesn't fit all when it comes to the postulation that all women who sell their favors only do so because they are being exploited and for no other reason, and that no woman would ever do it unless they were "forced" to.
The sale of sex is more complex than just assuming that the woman does NOT choose to be in that profession.
Far from using "one big paintbrush" to describe anyone, I have instead presented an alternate POV to "all women who are in prostitution are in it because they were forced, coerced, sold, controlled," etc.
There is no one-size-fits-all for either "side" of peoples' beliefs about this issue, and that was my point - that "they're all exploited, full stop, end of story" is not the only possibility, however much some women insist that it is.
I never said a word about "why a woman ends up a prostitute" other than perhaps she genuinely chooses that of her own free will - which is a postulation that from your comments (and the comments of others here) you seem to categorically reject as impossible. I never said that there are never any contributing circumstances, vulnerabilities or mental issues, or that every woman who becomes a prostitute does so because they just love it; but some do. It's not all totally out of the woman's control, every time.
Not every woman who sells herself is "on the streets" or does so to eat. Not every woman who sells herself is an object of pity. But the feeling within this thread has been that every woman who does so does it only due to external forces that somehow forced her to make that choice - there could never be any other reason. Not so.
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