Poll about Legalized Prostitution

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It looks like feminists, by-and-large, are against prostitution.

http://www.womensmediacenter.com/featur ... hts-treaty

Do they just not want men to have sex?

It seems to be a power issue--they want to put men in their place.

Why do the boys vote "yay" or "neigh", while the girls must vote "yes" or "no"?
That's so sexist - why can't I vote "yay" in old-timey fashion?
Come to think of it, isn't it supposed to be "yea" and "nay"?

It looks like feminists, by-and-large, are against prostitution.

http://www.womensmediacenter.com/featur ... hts-treaty

Do they just not want men to have sex?

It seems to be a power issue--they want to put men in their place.

....(Judah) and his friend Hirah of Adullam went to Timnah, where his sheep were being sheared. Someone told Tamar that her father-in-law was going to Timnah to shear his sheep. So she changed from the widow's clothes she had been wearing, covered her face with a veil, and sat down at the entrance to Enaim, a town on the road to Timnah.....

When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, because she had her face covered. He went over to her at the side of the road and said, “All right, how much do you charge?” (He did not know that she was his daughter-in-law.)

She said, “What will you give me?”

He answered, “I will send you a young goat from my flock.”

She said, “All right, if you will give me something to keep as a pledge until you send the goat.”

“What shall I give you as a pledge?” he asked.

She answered, “Your seal with its cord and the walking stick you are carrying.” He gave them to her. Then they had intercourse, and she became pregnant. Tamar went home, took off her veil, and put her widow's clothes back on.

Judah sent his friend Hirah to take the goat and get back from the woman the articles he had pledged, but Hirah could not find her. He asked some men at Enaim, “Where is the prostitute who was here by the road?”

“There has never been a prostitute here,” they answered.

He returned to Judah and said, “I couldn't find her. The men of the place said that there had never been a prostitute there.”

Judah said, “Let her keep the things. We don't want people to laugh at us. I did try to pay her, but you couldn't find her.”

About three months later someone told Judah, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has been acting like a whore, and now she is pregnant.”

Judah ordered, “Take her out and burn her to death.”

As she was being taken out, she sent word to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man who owns these things. Look at them and see whose they are—this seal with its cord and this walking stick.”

Judah recognized them and said, “She is in the right. I have failed in my obligation to her—I should have given her to my son Shelah in marriage.” And Judah never had intercourse with her again.

Well, it could be that British women are much easier lays than American women.

I suspect that most men would like to be so attractive that they never had to pay for sex--they would be propositioned by 5 random women per day.

I suspect that men have a much higher demand for sex than women--otherwise, either there would be no need for money to exchange hands in order to consummate the deal, or women would be as likely to pay for sex as men.

I think it depends on what side of the political spectrum these 'feminists' reside.

I would gamble that the antis on this case are neo-conservative types of the Sarah Palin tradition speaking under the ideological duress of their male contemporaries.

By in large, the feminists I've encountered do not want to see the criminalisation of vulnerable women.

I still don't think prostitution is about demand for sex per se, but demand for paid-for sex. I think there's an attraction to some people in being able to pay someone to do something they wouldn't do for free.

I perceive a contradiction. If men have to pay women for something that women wouldn't do fo free, then of course the men would have to pay for it.

They could get it for free somewhere else, but that would be with a woman who actually wanted to do it. What I'm saying is that some men like the women to not be into the sex itself, to be doing it for the money. They don't want a fully willing woman. It's like a little taste of rape, without the coercion or violence.

Not every man who uses prostitutes is like, but I think some are.

They could get it for free somewhere else, but that would be with a woman who actually wanted to do it. What I'm saying is that some men like the women to not be into the sex itself, to be doing it for the money. They don't want a fully willing woman. It's like a little taste of rape, without the coercion or violence.

Not every man who uses prostitutes is like, but I think some are.

They could get it for free somewhere else, but that would be with a woman who actually wanted to do it. What I'm saying is that some men like the women to not be into the sex itself, to be doing it for the money. They don't want a fully willing woman. It's like a little taste of rape, without the coercion or violence.

Not every man who uses prostitutes is like, but I think some are.

They could get it for free somewhere else, but that would be with a woman who actually wanted to do it. What I'm saying is that some men like the women to not be into the sex itself, to be doing it for the money. They don't want a fully willing woman. It's like a little taste of rape, without the coercion or violence.