(12 of 14) ITS WRONG TO PAY FOR SEX DEBATE - CLOSING ARGUMENTS PART 1

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[kodienyc]

In the comments I see a lot of shockingly naive and simplistic ideas about choice and consent. This kind of simplistic thinking comes from persons who are not aware of systemic power relations. It is a fantasy of market ideology that one can have the free choice and free will to allow oneself to be abused. Speaking as a male prostitute, I agree fully with the feminists, especially Catherine MacKinnon. There is never ever anything in prostitution remotely like free will or choice.

[GirlonFilm1969]

No Tyler, there was an answer. The answer was that b/c someone is disabled doesn't preclude them from having a relationship. That it would be discrimination to think they can't have that relationship. Dumbass economic prof.

[GirlonFilm1969]

Sense of adventure? Sex is important but we're talking about paying money for it and what it means in a patriarchal capitalist society and the inherent power imbalance in the system that will continue to put women in this position and continue to stigmatize women whether legalized or decrim. Nobody is criminalizing sex you idiot. Shalit is wonderful in this debate.

[Berelore]

@jill198751

Often I let stupid slide when I don't think the person will let the light sweep away the ignorance but just so you can feel silly:

pros·ti·tute /ˈprɒstɪˌtut, -ˌtyut/ [pros-ti-toot, -tyoot]

–noun

1.

a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.

2.

a man who engages in sexual acts for money.

The dictionary is your friend learn it, love it, live it, and for jebus' sake consult it before opening your big mouth attached to your empty head.

[jill198751]

@Berelore debate topic is not "if it is right or wrong to be a prostitute", the topic is "if it is right or wrong to pay for sex".....

[Berelore]

4:28 no one has addressed it because it's stupid and irrelevant.

You know what else no one has addressed, what gives you the right to tell these women what they can or can't do with their own bodies.

[MaltesianKnight]

@nuclearnight Cowen said that people who can not have sex FOR WHATEVER REASON (he said so in his opening speech), may choose to pay for sex and there's something wrong about prohibiting that. There's nothing emotional about it - quadraplegic people was just one example, the soldier was another. It's a matter of not prohibiting acts between informed, consenting adults & not a matter of condoning trafficking, abuse and violence, that the so-called "feminists" in this debate want us to believe.

[ActaNonVerba71]

what a setup. feminists are sneaky. the sisterhood all said they were against the motion beforehand in order to make it look like the feminazis swayed everybody. predictable and obvious.

[TheLazyEvangelist]

@nuclearnight Who are you talking to?

[nuclearnight]

@nuclearnight

Comparing those women to THEOCRATS?  WAY TO FAIL.