Does this 4T seem a little 2T-ish to anyone else?

[pbrower2a]

(03-05-2022, 03:05 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(03-05-2022, 11:55 AM)beechnut79 Wrote:

(03-04-2022, 02:55 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Prostitution will be legal when it can be made 'corporate', much as was the case with gambling a few years ago and marijuana sporadically.  When something is profitable and cash flows are controllable it will have the support of Big Business. If Big Business wants something legal it becomes legal.

What isn't controllable about prostitution? It's a dangerous way to make a living. Many serial killers select prostitutes as prey. Killing their mothers who might have been prostitutes or at least 'loose women' through the surrogate of prostitutes?  Big Business must be able to determine how much will be paid for certain acts and require that the condom be supplied by the company.  When everything about it is proprietary, prostitution will be legal.

I would rather see it remain independent and probably might prefer decriminalization. Corporatizing it wouldn't make it less expensive and would rather see it become affordable to the masses. Sex work has become the more politically correct name for that P-word. Jackpot question is whether it would become less stigmatized. The FOSTA law along with the forced seizure of the original Backpage (many clones have sprung up since then, mostly populated with fake and/or questionable ads), 

It has been for a long time packaged differently under the name escort services. Sure, sex is often a part of it but most reputable escorts heavily screen potential clients, and are quite expensive, with the going rate in the Chicago area now at about $500 an hour. For both parties' protection should be packaged as for companionship, and anything that happens between the two parties is contingent on where the mood takes them.

Prostitution is patronized by those who are lonely and sexually frustrated. Right now sexual relationship is given enormous stigma.

One of the attractions of prostitution to the client is often the absence of a relationship.  Relationships often prove inconvenient or troublesome to people with mental illness or moral depravity. Some people have gotten perverse training from their parents, such as that all women are gold-diggers or worse. Some men are physically unattractive for reasons from disfigurement to obesity and cannot attract a woman except with a portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Some have distorted views of women as a consequence of over-indulgence in pornography or taking it too seriously. Anyone excessively fussy about getting the ideal partner will be disappointed.

Quote:That makes loneliness and frustration even greater. The likelihood of sex crimes and abuse leading to murder of women is greater because the sex crime is punished so severely by society and by the law. So rapists feel no alternative but to murder their victims to try and cover up their rape. Rape is a crime, especially forcible rape, but it should not be subject to capital punishment or to decades in jail if the perp is required to get therapy and supervision.

Anyone can be frustrated, but as a general rule, the nastier a person one is te more likely one is to be frustrated. Anyone who demands to get away with personal vileness will be all the more likely to fail in achieving one's desires. So if we become as a whole nicer people and that the expectations are such and are well known, then we will have far less frustration. Of course more social equity will be a good thing.

Rape involves at best treachery and at worst violence. A strong correlation exists between burglary and rape -- perhaps that burglary gets a rapist to potential victims, or that people who do not heed property rights might have lax boundaries on the dignity of others. California imposed a three-strikes law, and after many burglars got their third strike for a burglary conviction and got put away for years, rapes declined.

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What is needed is a revival of the human potential movement. Therapy needs to be available; loneliness needs to be less pervasive.

Therapy does not work on narcissism, sociopathy, or psychopathy.

I suggest that we put much of the emphasis on human kindness and getting along with others in K-12 education that nobody can escape. Learning how to be a good person is essential to getting along at work. Marginally-competent people can hold jobs, but nasty people get fired for so-called personality conflicts. STEM is nice, but one must have good character if one is to be trusted with dangerous pathogens, reagents, or power sources.

Part of human development is finding meaning in life. To be sure if all one does is to make people already filthy-rich even more filthy-rich by working multiple jobs just to survive,then not much else matters in life. How long can we maintain that as a norm?

Quote:This will have to wait until the next awakening, when I see it coming again. Such awakenings can be ruined by abusive and entitled males who force their will on women and even on other men, as well as on children within families and outside-- and even long after the Awakening era itself (and usually the result of pre-awakening eras and non-awakened people). But the more open and less stigmatized sexual relationships are, the more it becomes a way of liberation and not of male domination, the more it receives good education, the more sex therapy is available, the more priests are allowed to marry and be women and not be celibate, the more all this and more happens, the more healthy sex will be, and the less need we'll have for prostitutes, and fewer sex crimes will happen.

If I notice any predictable pattern in history it is that the solutions that people find for one problem create another problem. The automobile that freed people from the numbing boredom of isolated rural life became a makeout-place and a getaway car for marauding armed bank robbers like John  Dillinger. Radio became a tool of entertainment (the 1934 World Series!) but also a tool in another country for propaganda that led people far astray, especially with military weapons. The Pill made pregnancy less of a fear but it also made it easier for male-chauvinist-pigs to demand sex. Computers are great tools of reference, information, and self expression but they are also easy to abuse (like the infamous 419 scam and conspiracy theories -- and medical quackery).

If I were to suggest any reforms for the Roman Catholic Church it would be that it accept married priests and female priests. It seems so obvious! 

Quote:I don't see any need for prostitution to be corporate. Legalization and regulation seems the best strategy to lessen the abuse and crime associated with it.

Taxes and regulation.