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Article #166: Prostitution

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I must say that the practice of allowing armies of unemployed to starve,
prostitution has been given a very bad and restricting the flow of information
name. Yet, I see it everywhere. Men who is impure. It is impure to build palaces
pay for sex are simply either when there are still men and women
pre-occupied or too lazy. If they wanted without homes. If it was impure to feed
to save some cash, they could simply the poor and homeless, should we make it
spend 15 minutes everyday grooming illegal? If it was pure to murder and
themselves, and then hitting up the clubs rape, should we make it legal? Of course
every night. Sure sure, they would be not. The terms "pure" and "impure" are
spending about $20 to $40 on drinks and meaningless. If conservatives are simply
maybe three or four hours of hitting on a going to apply it without any purpose,
girl, but they would still get sex. And, then it is with complete disregard for
honestly, what is the difference between morality and the goodness of mankind.
simply paying a woman to have sex, and A real question that I would like to ask
looking nice and buying them drinks to these conservative thinkers is this: by
have sex? I can extend this analogy even what standard can you define anything as
further. What if someone decides, in pure or impure? What is the scale? And,
fact, to spend several hours every day or once this is decided, how is it relevant
week in courtship, for weeks or months, to anything? If it happens that murder
until marriage? In such a case, they is impure, that holds no relevance over
would have achieved the required social whether it is legal or illegal. Murder
steps for sex. In that case, they are is illegal because it causes suffering
still just giving in a certain amount of and misery, and so is the same reason why
time and effort to satisfy their sexual rape or assault are illegal. It it
libido. If a man spends hours laboring happens that helping the innocent escape
at his profession, is paid, and then an evil fate is pure, it has nothing to
spends this money on a prostitute, how do with the law. It is legal to help
does this differ from a man spending innocent people because it eliminates
hours hitting on a woman and then her misery and suffering. So, when we decide
finally accepting the sexual proposal? I to judge something like prostitution, and
cannot find one difference in any of if it weighs out to being impure, why
these circumstances that would make should this even aid in our decision?
prostitution immoral or unethical. After all, prostitution, much like the
Yes, there is the difference that in one sex act alone, creates happiness and
of these cases, money is specifically pleasure for many. It is a mutually
offered for the action of sex. I am not benefiting relationship. That is why it
denying this at all. The only thing I am must be legalized.
denying is that the exchange of money for There are still some other considerations
sex matters. Whether sex was paid for or to think about. For example, what about
whether it was obtained through that those prostitutes who are not willingly
clever game of sexual selection and prostitutes? What of those prostitutes
competition, it is all irrelevant. Just who engage in the practice for the sake
because sex was paid for in one instance, of obtaining food and not for the sake of
I do not think that it ought to be choosing it as a profession? Some will
outlawed or even condemned. As humane argue, very rightly too, that
and rational men, the source of our prostitution allows people to sell their
ethical imperatives comes from one idea. bodies, even though the practice scars
It is the idea that our actions improve, their mind. I admit, this is very true.
better, and aid the lives of those around Yet, it cannot be denied that every
us. This can be done in a number of profession contains people who are
ways. If our actions can be judged as scarred by their labor. Consider the
increasing the pleasure of others, and Mexican laborers, whose rights are
decreasing the misery of others, then it violated daily as they are forced to work
ought to be said that our actions are 14 hours a day. Consider the American
ethical, that they have done some good, laborer who lives in a closet and works
that they have decreased misery and 10 hours a day so he can have nothing.
increased happines. With this ethical The decades and decades of their lives
ideal understood, there can be no spent living in such poverty and misery,
argument against prostitution. The inflicted on the lives of hundreds of
system of buying and selling sex has been millions, if not billions, of people.
and will continue to be a means of mutual There is no doubt that professions all
satisfaction: the cash for the over the world have allowed for so much
prostitute, and the pleasure for the misery, so much pain, so much cruelty.
customer. They exist solely because of the
In all honesty, I believe the greatest exploitive, oppressive relationships that
amount of opposition to prostitution that are allowed to flourish in society. The
comes today is simply an animosity problem is not prostitution. The problem
against the sex act in general. Those is the poverty of a Capitalist economy.
same individuals who oppose prostitution If the scarring of prostitution, or any
probably support the law of statutory other profession, is to be eliminated, we
rape. They believed that if a consenting need Socialism on our law books. It is
18 year old had sex with a consenting 17 the only savior of the proletariat.
year old, that it was a tragic act, that Before ending, there is one other matter
it permanently scarred the 17 year old that ought to be discussed. It is the
and that the heart of the 18 year old was matter of the rights of women, of
stone cold. The same people who oppose Feminism, of sexism versus sexuality.
legalizing prostitution also oppose Feminists will argue that prostitution
distribution of contraceptive devices, will only make women seem more like
arguing that "if sex is safe, then more objects and less like individuals with
sex will be committed." These people interests and emotions. First, there is
would rather that disease infest and a double standard. There are gigolos, or
destroy the bodies of young people than male prostitutes, and one might inquire
allow them to take happiness in the how this impacts the image that women
warmth of each others' bodies. The have of men. Some might agree, and
puritanical spirit is still among our believe that both institutions should be
society, unfortunately, and it is the abolished. Yet, such an action would be
people who are paying for it. Venereal too hasty and too reckless. Sex, whether
disease and unwanted pregnancy effects paid for or not, is usually about
all ages, all races. By doing all that satisfying an urge. A Feminist might as
we can to eliminate these social ills, we well say that men and women shouldn't
are elevating the spirit of humanity, the have sex with each other at all, to
creed of kinship, the bond that may be prevent them from having sexual thoughts
called our experience together. about each other, or from developing
Among the primary arguments of those who ideas about the other gender. No doubt,
oppose prostitution, there is the purity everyone will disagree with such a social
argument. It is not a question of the plan. Eliminating sex will perhaps cause
disease spread by illegal prostitutes, or the greatest misery in society. And, the
of the criminal element associated with fact that nobody wants to eliminate sex,
it, but rather, it is a matter of purity. is fair and good evidence that the spirit
By allowing people to exchange sex for of Puritanism is slowly but surely dying.
cash, we are allowing people to engage in Whether or not prostitution will put a
impure acts, which are destructive prejudice in the mind of men is not
towards themselves. My response to this something that can be battled by
is simple: irrelevant. It is irrelevant prohibiting prostitution, but only by a
whether an action is judged to be pure or real and honest education given to all
impure. Personally, I believe that people, so that they can appreciate the
allowing children to live in poverty, relationships they have with each other.






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