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MarcEsadrian -> RE: Why Just Pros? (6/21/2010 12:09:45 PM)
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ORIGINAL: domiguy
I know this sounds weird but it is about the "spirit." I know that sounds fucking crazy to come out here and suggest something as odd as that. But there is a tremendous validity in making the connection. Certain occupations are simply damaging. Because they in no way nurture the inner self. But I would be willing to guess that both of these play a certain part.
We try to keep people from utilizing heroin because of the devastating consequences.....11 out of forty playmates have died fairly awful deaths...
Suicide rates are higher in professions with easy access to lethal drugs, such as actors, musicians, pharmacists and veterinary doctors. Focusing on musicians, for instance, is a fairly familiar territory for most. How many musicians died from drug overdoses or suicide? Without statistics, most can count at least one or two from memory alone. Here's a partially compiled list, couched in biblical warnings, no less: http://www.av1611.org/rockdead.html
The more scientific types can read about a study in Journal of Epidemial Community Health conducted by the Centre for Public Health at Liverpool John Moores University here: http://jech.bmj.com/content/61/10/896.full#ref-22
Female issues in regards to "spirit" are not so cut and dry, by the way. Women suffer from depression twice as much as men. This two-to-one ratio exists regardless of racial and ethnic background or economic status. 1 It's a mixed bag, and one that is increasingly complex. The lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years by many objective measures, yet measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. 2
The reasons stem from biological differences to environmental and social pressures. Depressives (girls and boys) were found to come from families in which there was marked striving for prestige with the patient as the instrument of this need; the family showed marked concern for social achievement and the childhood background was characterized by envy and competitiveness. 3
We know that untreated depression is the number one cause for suicide, too. I found these two facts interesting in light of the observation that prestige and social achievement seem to be the partial crux of your argument against pros. The reality is that negative attitudes which support prevailing stigmas have more to do with depression and suicide than anything else, and many of them are dressed in moral arguments.
As an aside, while females suffer greater depression, males take their own lives at nearly four times the rate of females and represent 79.0% of all U.S. suicides. Men have some issues with coping far more than women do, it would seem, and they comprise the client side of sex work. It seems we have some work to do in society if we really want to get to the bottom of things. Bitching about professional domination isn't going to make any progress to that end.
1: Facts and Figures www.afsp.org
2: The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness (Betsey Stevenson & Justin Wolfers, 2006)
3: The Depressed Women (Weissman & Paykel, 1974)
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