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A comment on Rhode Island unintentionally decriminalized indoor prostitution in 2003. Parent comment

Re:Rhode Island unintentionally decriminalized indoor prosti... by mseebach on Friday July 18, 2014 @05:02PM (#8055609)
> turning sex into a commodity

But prostitution doesn't do this. A commodity has full or near full fungibility, i.e. "one sex" is (almost) substitutable by any other "one sex". Obviously this isn't true for sex.

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Re:Rhode Island unintentionally decriminalized indoor prosti... by heylefty on Friday July 18, 2014 @08:03PM (#8056189)
Well, it's certainly truer for prostitution than it is for conventional relationships. Use fuzzy logic to process the truth here.
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Re:Rhode Island unintentionally decriminalized indoor prosti... by mseebach on Friday July 18, 2014 @08:28PM (#8056251)
For this commoditization to be meaningfully damaging to women (which is what the GP claims), it must cover both prostitution and relational/emotional sex. The kind of sex you have with a prostitute (legal or not) is substantially different from the kind of sex you have with a lover.
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