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crazyml -> RE: Do You Consider Webcam Women Prostitutes? (7/25/2015 12:34:46 AM)
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Hmm. So it looks to me as if you began this thread with something of an axe to grind. Which is ok by me, grind away.
You make some really really important points about prostitution, certainly many many young women are forced into prostitution through exploitation, trafficking, addiction and poverty (It's interesting to note that the most appalling examples you proposed were based on studies from places like S. Africa, Mexico, Thailand etc - all places where poverty is a massive issue). This is something that I believe, the rest of us should do something about. But I maintain that the answer is to look at ways of solving the problems (exploitation, trafficking, addiction and poverty) rather than simply attacking the symptoms (prostitution). In a very poor area, if you deny women the last bit of income they can earn, then how are you helping them (and their children?).
I am curious about the stats.... If you did a survey of street prostitutes in run-down areas you may get one set of facts, whereas if you surveyed the women who work for an exclusive high-end escort service I suspect you'd get quite a different set of data. I very much doubt that the studies you refer to include cam girls within their definition of "prostitute".
In any respect - There certainly are women who do sex work by choice. I know a couple who make a decent living from it, one of them paid for her college tuition by blowing (and sometimes spanking) silicon valley execs. She went in and out of sex work with every shred of her integrity and self-respect utterly intact.
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