Survey Says?

[trinityvixen]

What is your stand on.....
Created by spyndakitrose and taken 15925 times on bzoink!
Abortion?	Pro-choice
Death Penalty?	For it
Prostitution?	Abso-fucking-lutely not
Alcohol?	Abso-fucking-lutely!
Marijuana?	No
Other drugs?	Definitely no
Gay marriage?	Definitely yes
Illegal immigrants?	Depends--are they legit refugees? Otherwise, no
Smoking?	It should be rooted out and exposed as the source of all evil.
Drunk driving?	DWI offenders have to spend time pretending to be orange cones in Student Driver testing lots
Cloning?	Hrm, can I clone things for me? I'd clone Alexander Hamilton!
Racism?	What kind of stupid question is that? Of course not
Premarital sex?	If you're willing and so is the other, why the hell not?
Religion?	If that's what floats your boat.
The war in Iraq?	You mean the post-war occupation of a 'sovereign' nation? Duh, against it.
Bush?	Is this question even necessary? The man should be strung up by his freakishly huge and sticking out ears.
Downloading music?	For it. Music should be paid for but should be paid for A LOT LESS THAN WHAT THE INDUSTRY CHARGES. Then maybe so many stupid people wouldn't be rich...
The legal drinking age?	18--if they can be drafted, they can have whatever the store's stocking
Porn?	Absolutely. Nothing wrong with it. How is this different from prostitution? For one, it's a helluva lot cleaner. Porn actors/actresses probably get fewer STDs than most people
Suicide?	Well, shouldn't be illegal or anything, but I'm not in favor of it or anything neither...
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Whew, it's Friday, innit? In other news, I watched Ju-On 2 with my friend last night, who, despite being tired as hell, watched until we got to the really really funny part, which I'd been harping on about all night. She thought it was okay but more funny that I was so amused. C'est la vie, non? Also, Carrie falls asleep no matter where she is the second she starts the inexorable slide into a lying down position. She also managed to fake being awake again when I got really excited when the funny part came on--I hit her shoulder to wake her, and she said, "I know, I'm awake, I know!" kinda testy-like. Then, after I drove Liz home, I came back and she woke up and was confused. Ah me.

Cross-stich update: I finished the ground! Time for the fan, the swords, and the shirt!

Comments

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yes, I would say so because even if it's not degrading at all to them--not just that they don't believe the act is degrading, but maybe even those who enjoy it--it's definitely degrading to women. It sends the message that sex is the woman's last resort, like violence is to a man. Historically, this is more than accurate--when a woman wants to move the world, she, well, sees that the earth moves with the right people. Men just hack, slash, and kill; women have always had to be more underhanded, and underhanded and sex go hand-in-hand. Sex shouldn't be driven undergound--if the society in general were more open about sex, prostitution would be, I believe, less necessary in general. But when you have an entire industry based on women just taking when men want to force upon them, that's degrading to women in general whether that's what rocks that woman's world or not.

Also, in regards to that link? I don't really think that sex-workers of the world have any right to make commentary on prostitution in general. A lot of the people on the board were mad about speaking out against sex-work. I believe there is a world of difference between the 'sex workers' and the prostitutes reporting in there. Sex workers think they have a right to be outraged at prostitution being illegal, but think about it: they don't do it. Why? Because they don't like it. Because it's something very few *would* like. If it's so great, go out and do it, if you're so in support of it. Stop just stripping and making dirty phone calls. I find it very hypocritical to be up in arms about protecting a profession you think is unfairly assaulted but cannot rightly be said to be a part of--if you don't choose to be a prostitute, there must be a reason.

I realize the same could be said of abortion--why be pro-choice if you don't want one yourself? I usually say it's so the other girl who does want one can have it. So, I suppose, prostitution being legal would carry the same implications as abortion: it makes it a helluva lot safer for those involved, there would be professionals who would keep the abusive, street-based folk out of it. It's just that it's impractical to apply that thinking to a system as large as prostitution rings would be. Abortions are few and far between because you have two moral considerations, sex and life/death issues, in addition to the medical know-how required to perform them. Prostitution, on the other hand, is concerned with sex and sex only, doesn't require an MD to perform, and just about everyone knows how it works, which means just about everyone can participate. Try regulating that. Imagine expanding the OSHA regulations to cover people and protect their health and safety in that line of work. It would be a nightmare.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

This is why I think porn works and prostitution doesn't. Porn allows for wish fulfillment fantasy that takes a minimum of actual performances to have a finished product. Whereas to make money a prostitute must have sex with many anonymous partners, none of whom she will know or see again most likely, a porn star tends to know the people she works with--it's an industry, after all--and probably will shoot new movies with those people and only has to shoot the one movie with many takes with the same people. It's a question of many partners for a buck and many takes with the same partner for the film that then makes the money in wide distribution. To me, for the same effect--getting someone off--porn hurts fewer people. People in porn tend to like what they do a lot more than the ones on the street--maybe they don't actually like it better, but they get a hell of a lot more perks, and it's safer.