re: #463 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Prostitution has always been one of those things that has been a dilemma to me.

I think it’s a terrible life choice for a woman to make, but, as long as it is her choice, who am I to tell her that she can’t.

My problem is it usually isn’t a ‘choice’.
I’m not for it, exactly— but it’s always existed and will always exist. And I don’t think it’s a good choice. And yeah, I know women on the fringes of the sex industry (strippers working their way through school, etc) - who didn’t engage in prostitution, per se, — but their experiences did generally fuck them up. This isn’t a judgement by me, but what they say.

So, it ought to be regulated, and the people engaging in sex work need to be protected.
They also need to have other opportunities made available to them. They aren’t, at the moment.
And we definitely need to go after the pimps most of all— especially the ones who target and ‘convert’ underage women and also men— and the johns at least as much as we do prostitutes. IMO.
Also all the ‘boyfriends’ and dealers who beat their women and then send them out on the street.