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In reply to the discussion: There is nothing wrong with Porn & Prostitution [View all]BainsBane
(53,032 posts)about anyone but the men who buy sex. Isn't going to happen. This is the epitome of the "me" ethos, all that matters is a man's desire to buy sex. This is about the exhalation of self above the rest of the human race--power and privilege of the few and the hell with the consequences. Those enslaved girls and children do not factor in their thinking because they do not care. Children in inner cities are irrelevant. It's class, race, and gender exploitation at it's worse, and they've developed a self-righteous ideology to justify it: sex as the highest form of liberty, a liberty that belongs only to men of privilege and hinges on exploitation of the worst kind, resulting in slavery, rape, and death. They refuse to pay attention to either academic evidence or personal experiences because those lives simply do not matter. One came out and told me point blank that my experience as a child being preyed upon by Johns who came to find prostitutes was irrelevant. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025346527
The poor exist for the privileged to use, abuse, and throw away. The dogma of neoliberal capitalism trumps human rights.
I will also note that not a one would agree to put prostitution in their own neighborhoods. It had to go in poor neighborhoods like mine. We were accustomed to economic blight and sexual predation. What difference would legalization make anyway? Only not in their communities, not next to their schools. It is entirely about their privilege and ability to exploit the poor at will, and we are supposed to take it because of their "liberty." Well I don't give a shit about the privileged man's liberty that comes at the cost of massive exploitation of persons and communities. I care about the rights of the rest of the human race to live in dignity, without poor children being preyed upon, raped, and sold into slavery.