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Zonie63 -> RE: Salvation of Prostitutes (5/4/2014 7:44:38 AM)
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ORIGINAL: BenevolentM
I happened by a IFC film that depicted a woman who is broke and turns to prostitution. I lost interest in the film, but the film did get me thinking. She was inexperienced. A man picked her up for a hand job. One of the things he negotiated with her was he wanted her to talk dirty. She naively told him the truth when he asked her why was she doing this? She said it was because she was broke. What he wanted her to say was she was a horny slut. He admitted that he found her desirable. To me this should lower the barrier for compassion. Human love is imperfect. Though imperfect it is still real. Why aren't the men moved to compassion and say what can I do to get you out of having to do this? Perhaps men are and we just don't hear about it. Perhaps they don't because such feeling is impractical. If so, why would it be? If it is because he is married, I do not see that as an excuse. But perhaps it is unwise because such women cannot be trusted or the system cannot be trusted. Or perhaps it is because it costs money and it is a lot cheaper just to exploit her circumstances than to be of assistance to her.
Comments?
I suppose it would depend on the circumstances, although I oftentimes find myself scratching my head at some of the behavior of some men out there. Every so often, one might hear of a sex trafficking ring being broken up (just like a recent thread about an Air France couple trafficking women from Brazil). The women were lured in but soon found themselves stuck with no way out. They were forced to see several men per day, but I had to wonder: Who the hell are these men who aid and abet this kind of stuff?
Personally, I've never been to a prostitute, although I was propositioned once. I was working as a courier at the time and stopped to get gas, and this young lady walked up to me and asked if I could give her a ride somewhere. Against my better judgment, I said okay, but it turned out I was heading in the opposite direction from where she said she was headed. 5 seconds after pulling out from the gas station, she asked me "Do you date?" I thought she meant something like dinner out and a movie, but I quickly caught on that she meant something completely different. She offered to give me a blow job for $15, however I declined. She still asked for money, so I gave her what little I had in my wallet, about 5 or 6 dollars. Then she didn't even want the ride anymore, so she got out after two blocks.
I didn't really ask her about her situation, as it wasn't really any of my business anyway. As far as I could tell, she wasn't being forced into anything, and she seemed able-bodied enough that she probably could have gotten a job as a waitress or a maid somewhere. But she was making her own choices of her own free will, so I just left it at that.
But there was another situation I read about in the Bay Area a few years back, where they busted a sex-trafficking ring in which Korean girls were being illegally smuggled into the United States to work in brothels. So, they were in the country illegally where they didn't know the system and had a poor command of the English language, putting them totally at the mercy of their pimps. But out of the (apparently) numerous customers they had, not one of them had enough scruples or conscience to say "Hey, this is wrong" and report it to the proper authorities?
Although considering who the "proper authorities" are, that may be where part of the problem lies. The police have had periodic sting operations, in which police women have posed as prostitutes in areas where the "johns" are known to frequent. The public reaction was mixed, and even those who supported it were pretty lukewarm about it. It seemed it was attacking a symptom and not really dealing with the root of the problem. Some might believe that if prostitution was legal, it could free up police resources so that they could spend more time going after the real scumbags and sex traffickers.
Another option is that we men could all get together and boycott the sex industry completely. If there was no demand for it, then there'd be no money in it, and nobody would get involved in it.
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