How Much for a Filthy Sanchez?

What, isn't my money good enough for you? Give me a price list or tell me why you won't.

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Added 13th June 2010

Because this video has been misinterpreted and quote mined so much I am reluctantly adding this qualifier.




THE PURPOSE OF THIS VIDEO IS TO ACT AS A STALKING HORSE FOR DEBATE AND SHOULD NOT BE INTERPRETED AS MY HOLDING NEGATIVE OPINIONS OF SEX WORKERS IN GENERAL OR OF WOMEN IN PARTICULAR.

If you want to know more about my thinking on these areas (and I stress 'thinking' not 'conclusions'), please see the following:

"Wham Bam Thankyou Maam" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWIJ9UPJjmU

"High Stakes Services" (Response to feministwhore) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul4LlAUIiE0

"Stigma and Sex Work 1 - morality" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHWB0uOY1MQ

Stigma and Sex Work 2 - manual labour (a modest proposal) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbbKGRS6jB8

"Prostitutes and Witches" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FfM4oF5w98

If you're really short of something to look at I've also done a few videos on pornography and on 'feminist epistemology'.

The Churchill quotation is possibly apocryphal, but is widely cited. The list of sex acts that I give is inspired by an episode of South Park called "Proper Condom Use". Series 5, 2001.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• feminist
• feminism
• sex
• worker
• prostitute
• prostitution

[Fangtorn]

The argument in this video appears to be "If you wouldn't sell sex, then you can't say others can if they want to," which is absurd. You don't need to be willingly to do something in order to think it should be legal. Peach refuted this pretty well in her video, from which i come to see if she had misrepresented you, and i can't see how she has.

[conferencereport]

@Fangtorn There is no argument in this video. The question I ask is why a person would choose not to be a sex worker (particularly a person who is advocating for the de-stigmatization of sex work). The nearest I have got from an answer from Peach is that she is 'not suited to it' and would be 'no good at it'. I think it would be very interesting to find out what kind of person Peach thinks is 'suited to it' and what it means to be 'good at it'. What do you think?

[qarohc]

sir would you be willing to have gay sex to save a loved ones life?

Would you be willing to have gay sex to attain medicine that will allow a loved one to live longer?

Would you have gay sex if it allowed a loved one to live a more pain free life?

Would you have gay sex for 5 dollars? No well we already established what kind of man you are now we are negotiating the price.

I liked the joke(when i first heard it years ago) but its a joke not a metaphor for life.

[conferencereport]

@qarohc Why are you assuming I'm heterosexual?

[rosskay]

It almost sounds as if you may be resentful to have to pay. Someone asked me this very question when I was 16, and I said I would never do that- and they argued with me and said that every woman is willing to sell sex depending on circumstance and price. I thought about that question for about several years, and I think that is true.

[conferencereport]

@rosskay If I come over as resentful then that would be a mistake on my part, it certainly wasn't my intention.  The comment you make that 'every woman is willing to sell sex depending on circumstance and price' is interesting, although I'd like a closer analysis of what circumstances you might be referring to. Thanks for commenting.

[rosskay]

@rosskay This is all women, so all women are "whores" It's time people start to accept and respect women as they are. Women have been pursued and receiving things for sex as far back as being people, and there should be no shame and blame put behind that, and stop this stigmatization for something that could very well be normal and natural.

[rosskay]

@rosskay im going to have to clarify this at some point, because what Im getting at is not about prostitution, but the stigma and mentality that men can have what they want from women at will, or not have to "work" for anything, or respect women's boundaries, or whatever her "price" is.

[FeelthySanchez]

Regrets, mate.

I find it necessary to interject on infringement grounds ......

[Muzikman127]

@amet1980 human tracfficking is allowed by the illegality of the sex trade. By keeping something illegal when there is a demand, you put the business into the hands of criminals. You can't remove the demand, but you can supply it with legal, consenting adults

Put it this way, if you lived in a country where say, pasta was illegal. And you went to your local pasta dealer. Could you guarantee that it wasn't made in some factory full of child labourers? Legalisation=regulation

[Muzikman127]

@conferencereport I think whoever chooses to has the right to. I wouldn't want to wash dishes or clean toilets for a living either personally. I don't think that the catering industry should be illegalised

[Muzikman127]

@conferencereport because you only mentioned women in your video and you said "maybe I'd be interested"

[Fangtorn]

@conferencereport So you're asking why someone who wouldn't want to be a sex worker thinks its ok for others to do a job we wouldn't wish to do ourselves? Why? I wouldn't wish to be a sex worker because i wouldn't feel safe or find it fulfilling.

I think the people who are "suited to it" are people that self-confident, easy-going and secure in themselves. I couldn't be a sex worker because i would not at all feel at easy sleeping with strangers.

[amet1980]

excellent point.

punch right to the stomach.

im so glad i found your chanel.

im not so glad i found it through peaches video.

more alarming is the attemp to divert the discussion from the grotesque reality of human trafficking to some philosophical debate about individual rights.

if we lived in the lala land and its utopian conditions, i guess we could.

i guess freedom of speech in 1990 rwanda should have been a major debate, while catholic radio was instigating the murder of 2 million ppl.

[handianus]

watching this while slightly high, and you make some sense "those questions only really become meaningful when they become personalized" feels like my brain, when watching it before two or three times, completely missed some irony there

best get loaded when listening to something which is a sensitive subject to oneself

I was going to ask you before if you thought it was a nice thing to joke about holocaust victims etc ...never came up with something witty enough,fortunately I guess