Langara Dialogues - discussion about prostitution - Shaw TV - 7

On June 17 Buying Sex Is Not a Sport co-sponsored an informative and challenging evening with the Langara Dialogues at the Vancouver Public Library. Speakers included: Michelle Miller (REED), Jackie Lynne (Aboriginal Women's Action Network), Annabel Webb (Social Justice Visiting Scholar at UBC Law School and Co-founder of Justice for Girls), and Trisha Baptie (Honor Ministries). The Dialogues aired on Shaw TV numerous times.

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[Markohoppis]

Prostitution is a service, an exchange. Both parties consent, and both parties profit. The prostitutes in Reno, Nevada are treated with respect, and revered for their beauty and the service they provide as men need a sexual release that is not afforded to them by normal means.

There is no dehumanization, demoralization or objectification. There is only a sexual need, and a lovely lady who will offer to fulfill it for a price. The Feminist nonsense and man hate is incredible.

[88style83]

@chon4186 Chon is a wee bit detached from reality. He says he has nothing to say about me, and then he goes on to take the moral high road and talk about all of the ways he's better than me. He's so caught up in illusion and politically correct double-think that he can't even make a true, coherent statement.

I suppose that's why feminism is throwing up its guts - you can only choke on your own excrement for so long before you start to die.

[chon4186]

@88style83

I've got nothing to say to you after you say something like this, "Like they were too stupid or lazy to get a real job, or leave an abusive partner?"

Clearly, you're an ignorant moron. You continue to lay the same Straw Man down, even after I burn it, you try to hold up the ashes.

[88style83]

So? Men who commit violent crimes are more likely to have childhood trauma. Do you feel an ounce of sympathy for them?

Forced into it. Like they were too stupid or lazy to get a real job, or leave an abusive partner?

[chon4186]

@88style83

So are you only referring to drafters? Because you neglected to say that ahead of time, in which case I would agree with you that I think drafting is not right; alas this is a completely unrelated topic. Still the analogy is not the same. Generally, women in these professions join because of desperation, they were forced into it or because of some abuse they suffered earlier in their lives; obviously these aren't the only reasons but they are the most predominant.

[88style83]

What if they don't want to join the army? Regardless of what you've been taught, women choose to sell themselves for money. Men join the army out of low self-esteem, or because it's the law.

[chon4186]

By "profession", I mean their enrollment into the army.

[chon4186]

@88style83

Thank you for that straw man.

Does joining the army demoralize, dehumanize, objectify or commodify men; and then are these people disenfranchised from society because they joined the army? No, in fact many of these people are respected through society because of their profession, many see it as a status symbol. Your analogy is poorly constructed.

[88style83]

Would you offer the same support to a man who joins the army for money? Both are using their bodies for money, it's just that one of them wasn't born with the right body parts to get your sympathy.