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Re:Backpage.com seized by U.S. justice authorities by RangerScience on Friday April 06, 2018 @05:40PM (#16777696)
Sex work != objectification; although the correlation ("in today's society") is really substantial. In other words, this is not inherently a trade where a human being has to sell themselves like a piece of meat; even if today, many/most people in this trade are being sold like a piece of meat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_prostitution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2kJM9yQs9k

Arguably, this is an attitude problem on the demand side - people who want to buy other people like they're pieces of meat - rather than something about the supply, or the trade itself.

Here's a related interesting phenomenon: https://www.google.com/search?q=professional+cuddling

To end with a question: Would you consider professional dominatrixes to be in the trade [of selling themselves like meat]?

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Re:Backpage.com seized by U.S. justice authorities by JetSpiegel on Friday April 06, 2018 @05:47PM (#16777764)
There is this funny practice if temporary marriages too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikah_mut%27ah

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Re:Backpage.com seized by U.S. justice authorities by Fnoord on Saturday April 07, 2018 @05:51AM (#16780094)
> The iddah is intended to give paternal certainty to any child/ren should the wife become pregnant during the temporary marriage contract.

Offtopic but damn this is clever (back in the days).

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Re:Backpage.com seized by U.S. justice authorities by RangerScience on Friday April 06, 2018 @06:14PM (#16777968)
That's fascinating. People gonna sex, and other people gonna sex 'em up, no matters what else. Where there's a will there's a way and all.
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Re:Backpage.com seized by U.S. justice authorities by ksk on Saturday April 07, 2018 @02:42AM (#16779674)
>Arguably, this is an attitude problem on the demand side - people who want to buy other people like they're pieces of meat - rather than something about the supply, or the trade itself.

Yes, which soliciting sex is also prohibited.

>Would you consider professional dominatrixes to be in the trade [of selling themselves like meat]?

I don't know. Are 40% of them former child prostitutes? Are they at a high risk of getting murdered? Do they get raped outside of work? Do the vast majority of them experience physical violence?

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