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Re:The Rise and Fall of RedBook by detcader on Friday March 06, 2015 @03:15AM (#9156115)
Exactly, johns should be penalized. We sanction entire countries because of the conditions of the workers in manufacturing industries, don't we? But we simply can't touch the sex industry because that would be restricting "free choice"...
Re:The Rise and Fall of RedBook by tormeh on Friday March 06, 2015 @03:32AM (#9156161)
Farming in California is built on trafficked, essentially slave, labor, but I guess the much smaller problems in prostitution are a more romantic target.
Re:The Rise and Fall of RedBook by detcader on Friday March 06, 2015 @03:34AM (#9156167)
Smaller? By what metric?
Re:The Rise and Fall of RedBook by stcredzero on Friday March 06, 2015 @03:50AM (#9156209)
Frequency of piecework? I bet there are a lot more instances of "picking a fruit" per year by trafficked farm worker than there are instances of sex by a trafficked sex worker.
Re:The Rise and Fall of RedBook by detcader on Friday March 06, 2015 @03:55AM (#9156221)
Why are you referring to rape as "sex"? Rape is a violent crime every time it happens. I think we can recognize one issue as valuable without putting down the other.
Re:The Rise and Fall of RedBook by stcredzero on Friday March 06, 2015 @03:59AM (#9156235)
Rape is non-consensual sexual activity. If you want to establish a convention where "sex" only means consensual sex and "rape" only means non-consensual sexual activity, then I'll consent to that. There are far more intellectually honest ways of establishing such a convention than this sort of sideways putting words into someone's mouth.
Re:The Rise and Fall of RedBook by tsotha on Friday March 06, 2015 @06:07AM (#9156517)
Rape is sex. It may be violent. It may be criminal. It may be abhorrent. But it's still sex. The feminists are really out to lunch on this one.