<story><title>Should Prostitution Be a Crime?</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magazine/should-prostitution-be-a-crime.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atmosx</author><text>&amp;gt; What makes sexual labor so horrid?&lt;p&gt;Religion, especially Christendom and it&amp;#x27;s various strains. Before that in many cultures, sex was seen a something &lt;i&gt;positive&lt;/i&gt;, a pleasure in which you &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; indulge in.&lt;p&gt;You can see it on TV. Take DareDevils TVSeries, but I&amp;#x27;m sure you&amp;#x27;ll find many examples, there are countless raw violence scenes for free, but 3 seasons in and DareDevil hasn&amp;#x27;t been with a woman with the exception of a kiss. It&amp;#x27;s okay to display violence, no one will argue, but displaying explicit sex scenes... Well that&amp;#x27;s a no-no :-)&lt;p&gt;We have more than a few remnants from the dark ages.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: There&amp;#x27;s this amazing song by an Italian cantautor called &amp;quot;Fabrizio De Andre&amp;quot;. The story (lyrics) are spectacular, full of everyday life wisdom. You can read an English translation on YouTube: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=ysydBLMSbRs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=ysydBLMSbRs&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>kefka</author><text>How is prostitution any different than selling our bodies to work in a factory, or construction, or retail, or ....&lt;p&gt;Our bodies wear down and tire doing non-sexual labor. What makes sexual labor so horrid? As long as we do safe procedures (condoms, dental dams, etc.), there shouldn&amp;#x27;t be any problems with labor of a sexual nature.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s always better if you like your job. A lot of us do programming, or designing systems, or administration. We enjoy it. There&amp;#x27;s also people who like sex. I know a few, and they have made more in the sex industry.&lt;p&gt;The only real problems are disease and abuse. Disease is obvious, but &amp;quot;owners&amp;quot; like pimps and such are big problems. We don&amp;#x27;t accept this in standard employment.&lt;p&gt;And yes, sex for money for both genders is pretty awesome. It bypasses the whole mating ritual, and makes very clear expectations up front. And once done, the transaction is completed. Regular relationships can, and will get messy. I can certainly understand why some would not want to venture down that avenue in their point of life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>padobson</author><text>I find the moral outrage against sex by my fellow Christians to be a perversion of the teachings of Jesus.&lt;p&gt;Two C.S. Lewis quotes on the subject:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;...a cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to hell than a prostitute.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The desire for sex is ingrained in human nature, and so long as people can pay for things, sex will be one of the things they pay for. If we can reduce the number of victims by making it legal and regulating it, then I&amp;#x27;m all for it. But, at the same time, I&amp;#x27;d consider myself a failure as a moral guide if my daughter chose it as a career.</text></comment>
<story><title>Should Prostitution Be a Crime?</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magazine/should-prostitution-be-a-crime.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atmosx</author><text>&amp;gt; What makes sexual labor so horrid?&lt;p&gt;Religion, especially Christendom and it&amp;#x27;s various strains. Before that in many cultures, sex was seen a something &lt;i&gt;positive&lt;/i&gt;, a pleasure in which you &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; indulge in.&lt;p&gt;You can see it on TV. Take DareDevils TVSeries, but I&amp;#x27;m sure you&amp;#x27;ll find many examples, there are countless raw violence scenes for free, but 3 seasons in and DareDevil hasn&amp;#x27;t been with a woman with the exception of a kiss. It&amp;#x27;s okay to display violence, no one will argue, but displaying explicit sex scenes... Well that&amp;#x27;s a no-no :-)&lt;p&gt;We have more than a few remnants from the dark ages.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: There&amp;#x27;s this amazing song by an Italian cantautor called &amp;quot;Fabrizio De Andre&amp;quot;. The story (lyrics) are spectacular, full of everyday life wisdom. You can read an English translation on YouTube: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=ysydBLMSbRs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=ysydBLMSbRs&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>kefka</author><text>How is prostitution any different than selling our bodies to work in a factory, or construction, or retail, or ....&lt;p&gt;Our bodies wear down and tire doing non-sexual labor. What makes sexual labor so horrid? As long as we do safe procedures (condoms, dental dams, etc.), there shouldn&amp;#x27;t be any problems with labor of a sexual nature.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s always better if you like your job. A lot of us do programming, or designing systems, or administration. We enjoy it. There&amp;#x27;s also people who like sex. I know a few, and they have made more in the sex industry.&lt;p&gt;The only real problems are disease and abuse. Disease is obvious, but &amp;quot;owners&amp;quot; like pimps and such are big problems. We don&amp;#x27;t accept this in standard employment.&lt;p&gt;And yes, sex for money for both genders is pretty awesome. It bypasses the whole mating ritual, and makes very clear expectations up front. And once done, the transaction is completed. Regular relationships can, and will get messy. I can certainly understand why some would not want to venture down that avenue in their point of life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CobrastanJorji</author><text>I watched &amp;quot;Deadpool&amp;quot; on a flight the other day. It warned me that it was edited for content, and I thought &amp;quot;hrm, that&amp;#x27;s a shame, but given that there may be children around me on a flight, I suppose that&amp;#x27;s reasonable.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I then watched an entire human body literally splatter against a wall without censorship, followed later by a heavily injured protagonist standing up facing away, presumably nude because they blurred out his butt.</text></comment>