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Re:Prostitution and the internet by peteretep on Sunday August 10, 2014 @04:02AM (#8159166)

    > There are even review sites where users can review -
    > often in unnecessary & very creepy detail - their 
    > misadventures
Do you find detailed reviews of stereos to be creepy? How about a detailed review of a guitar teacher's services? Why is the detail for sex work creepy?
Re:Prostitution and the internet by peterfirefly on Sunday August 10, 2014 @04:14AM (#8159178)
"Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humor."
Re:Prostitution and the internet by bluepenguin on Sunday August 10, 2014 @05:07AM (#8159273)
A lot of men go into unnecessary graphic details most of which are not really useful and unnecessarily objectify the women they review. It would be like reviewing a guitar tutor by describing how they placed their fingers on the fret board or how they turned the pages of their song book.
Re:Prostitution and the internet by EpicEng on Sunday August 10, 2014 @06:13PM (#8160937)

  "unnecessarily objectify the women they review"
I'm not commenting on whether or not the reviews are "creepy", but c'mon; these women objectify themselves for a living. Once you go down the road of selling your body I think you lose the right to complain about objectification. They are literally selling themselves as an object.
Re:Prostitution and the internet by dllthomas on Sunday August 10, 2014 @06:29PM (#8160973)
Well no, they are literally selling a service. If they were selling themselves as an object, the purchaser would actually own them.
Re:Prostitution and the internet by EpicEng on Sunday August 10, 2014 @07:07PM (#8161091)
Well, yes, they are selling their body for a short period of time, and the type of "service" they are selling is not irrelevant. If you want to play semantics then fine; they're _renting_ their body. It all amounts to the same thing and doesn't change my point. They are objectifying themselves, so I think we can cut the PC nonsense.
Re:Prostitution and the internet by dllthomas on Sunday August 10, 2014 @09:49PM (#8161535)
I don't disagree with the notion that they're objectifying themselves. I do still think your phrasing was inaccurate. Nothing political about it - it was plain incorrect.
Re:Prostitution and the internet by prawn on Sunday August 10, 2014 @05:31AM (#8159307)
People would judge a guitar teacher on their finger placement and general technique.
Re:Prostitution and the internet by vertex-four on Sunday August 10, 2014 @07:15AM (#8159438)
However they'd only mention it if, for some reason, something were wrong about that specific piece of technique. Otherwise they'd never mention it.
Re:Prostitution and the internet by prawn on Sunday August 10, 2014 @10:14PM (#8161616)
I don't think that's true. People are complimentary of others' proficiency and fingerwork (or whatever it might be called) often enough. And I think a parallel to sex work is probably music performance as much as education, in which case technique is discussed by patrons all the time.
Re:Prostitution and the internet by kevingadd on Sunday August 10, 2014 @04:21AM (#8159189)
Because you're objectifying a person?
Re:Prostitution and the internet by muuh-gnu on Sunday August 10, 2014 @09:01AM (#8159618)
Objectfying a person is admissible when the person is selling itself as an object.
Re:Prostitution and the internet by peteretep on Sunday August 10, 2014 @08:32AM (#8159562)
How does that differ from the guitar teacher example?
Re:Prostitution and the internet by muuh-gnu on Sunday August 10, 2014 @09:02AM (#8159623)
It doesnt matter, because whiteknighting.