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This is what I don't understand about anti-prostitution feminists. There's this site I'm looking at :
http://www.catwinternational.org/about/index.php
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women.
They say this:
"Prostitution affects all women, justifies the sale of any woman, and reduces all women to sex. "
Well what about male prostitutes? Does that affect all men, and are all men reduced to sex? I don't understand the problem. We are all sexual beings. We are many things. I am sexual, intellectual, emotional, etc. I don't see how a woman working in sex trade reduces ME to a sexual object and nothing else. Does that mean that a businesswoman has been reduced to a purely intellectual person because she uses her brain to earn a living?
We are all made up of many qualities, but most people focus on one area when they choose a profession, usually they do what they're good at.
They also say this: "All prostitution exploits women, regardless of women's consent. "
How do they define consent, that's what I'd like to know. If you are doing something because you want to, and you're comfortable with it, and you're not coerced in any way, then I think you are giving consent. If you're doing it because there's nothing else you can do, and you're addicted to drugs, and you would be living on the street and dying of hunger if you didn't do sex work, then it is certainly arguable if you are consenting. But to say that ALL women CANNOT give consent is a disgustingly sexist idea. They are saying that women are INCAPABLE of deciding what they can do with their bodies. THAT idea is degrading to women. That mentality holds women back.
I think women will only be recognized as truly equal to men when people recognize that we can make our own choices.
http://www.catwinternational.org/about/index.php
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women.
They say this:
"Prostitution affects all women, justifies the sale of any woman, and reduces all women to sex. "
Well what about male prostitutes? Does that affect all men, and are all men reduced to sex? I don't understand the problem. We are all sexual beings. We are many things. I am sexual, intellectual, emotional, etc. I don't see how a woman working in sex trade reduces ME to a sexual object and nothing else. Does that mean that a businesswoman has been reduced to a purely intellectual person because she uses her brain to earn a living?
We are all made up of many qualities, but most people focus on one area when they choose a profession, usually they do what they're good at.
They also say this: "All prostitution exploits women, regardless of women's consent. "
How do they define consent, that's what I'd like to know. If you are doing something because you want to, and you're comfortable with it, and you're not coerced in any way, then I think you are giving consent. If you're doing it because there's nothing else you can do, and you're addicted to drugs, and you would be living on the street and dying of hunger if you didn't do sex work, then it is certainly arguable if you are consenting. But to say that ALL women CANNOT give consent is a disgustingly sexist idea. They are saying that women are INCAPABLE of deciding what they can do with their bodies. THAT idea is degrading to women. That mentality holds women back.
I think women will only be recognized as truly equal to men when people recognize that we can make our own choices.