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| Wed, 07-27-2011 - 6:53pm |
There was an interesting article in Newsweek recently about a new study done dealing with prositution and other related issues - here's a link to the article:
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/07/17/the-growing-demand-for-prostitution.html
It said that the people who were doing the study had to loosen their criteria in order to get a 100 person control group, because they could find so few men who met the criteria as a "non-user".
Powerful article.
Kim
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I never thought about strip clubs as being prostitution. I think there has to be an exchange of sex for me to define it that way. I have been to a strip club (a friend begged me) and it wasn't all that exciting. Here, women aren't able to remove much and they can't serve alcohol, so it's basically what you'd see on a beach. That hardly compares to what goes on on the streets.
I was happy to read that some police departments are trying to do things differently. I've always felt it was strange that there were far more arrests of the prostitutes rather than the johns. It always seemed like the girls were punished twice.
Kim
Very interesting article. I was disappointed, however, that the authors (or researchers, I'm not sure which) chose to jumble up phone sex, pornography, strip clubs and prostitution into one big pot and then report the statistics as if it were all the same level of exploitation. I think there are huge differences. I also thought this paragraph was interesting:
One other thought about this article:
If women who become stars in Playboy make millions of dollars and are less "broken" than the millions of 16- to 30-year-old men who buy the magazine, who is exploiting whom? For every sad story from women who feel exploited by the sex industry for sex, how many sad stories are there from men who feel exploited by it for money? Are men less vulnerable?
I'm most saddened and disturbed by the young girls (and boys) who are brought into it at a young age, are beaten and threatened regularly, and who risk their life daily while doing their job. They are the ones who need help.
I think there is a huge difference between the "public" sex industry (magazines, videos, strip clubs) and the "private" sex industry, which I consider to be true prostitution and where the true exploitation takes place.
The real answer is to legilize most forms of prostitution.
One doesn’t have to be forced into something to be exploited. You can be nicely paid for work rendered and still be exploited in the process.
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