Comments on: When The Greatest Nation On Earth Succumbs To A Vertical Smile… http://innocentabroad.com/2007/07/22/how-the-greatest-nation-on-earth-succumbed-to-a-vertical-smile/ adventure, intrigue, opinions Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:06:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Sarah http://innocentabroad.com/2007/07/22/how-the-greatest-nation-on-earth-succumbed-to-a-vertical-smile/#comment-2737 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:17:40 +0000 http://innocentabroad.com/2007/07/22/how-the-greatest-nation-on-earth-succumbed-to-a-vertical-smile/#comment-2737 Hi internet stranger. At random: I think generally prostitution is illegal these days not because sex is "dirty," but because it "exploits women." Notice who generally holds the sex work jobs, and coincidentally who still has trouble making decent money at other jobs. And note that even the happy whores like Carol Queen, who love sex work, say that primarily they do it for the money. You can look at that situation a lot of ways (banish anything women can make more money at? try to protect women from exploitative jobs?), but you can't really look at it without tripping over a gender gap. That's a start. Hi internet stranger. At random: I think generally prostitution is illegal these days not because sex is “dirty,” but because it “exploits women.”

Notice who generally holds the sex work jobs, and coincidentally who still has trouble making decent money at other jobs. And note that even the happy whores like Carol Queen, who love sex work, say that primarily they do it for the money. You can look at that situation a lot of ways (banish anything women can make more money at? try to protect women from exploitative jobs?), but you can’t really look at it without tripping over a gender gap. That’s a start.

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