story idea concerns
I may have mentioned this idea before, but some new ramifications of it occured to me.
The setting is aworld much like ours, except they aren't quite as hung up about sex and related things.
The idea is a class in school (probably high school, but I could see parts of it happening in lower grades, though that'd probably just be part of sex ed classes, like the ones in the Netherlands). Specifically a "vocational" class on sex work.
It started with an idea that came up in chat a few years back. A guy taking such a class and flunking, :-)
More serious consideration was that it could be a viable story, but still keep that bit. If nothing else, it'd given more reason to go into the how and why of things.
My more recent thoughts involve some ethical/moral concerns. Mlstly regarding "choice". that is when is it not right to "force" someone to do something they'd rather not?
Both as a sex worker and a student training to be one, there's going to be the issue of being "requested" to do things you might not want to do.
Doing it for money definitely makes it an issue. Saying "no" not only loses you that bit of income, but also might lose future business from that customer. Or even from others if you get a rep for being "too picky".
In the class things get worse in some ways. Maybe it's only a grade on an exercise, but there still should be some concern about asking students to do things they aren't comfortable with (for example the flunking student in the original idea is not keen on the idea of having sex with guys, *especially* if he's on the receiving end).
At the same time, the reality is that in such a job you can't afford to be *too* picky. where to draw the line is not any easy choice. And the class really *would* have to deal with that. Among other things, they'd need to make the students think about whether or not they are *actually* willing to deal with such things. Or maybe sex work isn't for them.
So I realized there's going to be a tension (at least!) between doing the exercises, declining some, and grading.
I *think* it could be done, but there are some definite gray areas. at *least* gray.
I'm looking for input both of the "ethics" and class topics and exercises.
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The setting is aworld much like ours, except they aren't quite as hung up about sex and related things.
The idea is a class in school (probably high school, but I could see parts of it happening in lower grades, though that'd probably just be part of sex ed classes, like the ones in the Netherlands). Specifically a "vocational" class on sex work.
It started with an idea that came up in chat a few years back. A guy taking such a class and flunking, :-)
More serious consideration was that it could be a viable story, but still keep that bit. If nothing else, it'd given more reason to go into the how and why of things.
My more recent thoughts involve some ethical/moral concerns. Mlstly regarding "choice". that is when is it not right to "force" someone to do something they'd rather not?
Both as a sex worker and a student training to be one, there's going to be the issue of being "requested" to do things you might not want to do.
Doing it for money definitely makes it an issue. Saying "no" not only loses you that bit of income, but also might lose future business from that customer. Or even from others if you get a rep for being "too picky".
In the class things get worse in some ways. Maybe it's only a grade on an exercise, but there still should be some concern about asking students to do things they aren't comfortable with (for example the flunking student in the original idea is not keen on the idea of having sex with guys, *especially* if he's on the receiving end).
At the same time, the reality is that in such a job you can't afford to be *too* picky. where to draw the line is not any easy choice. And the class really *would* have to deal with that. Among other things, they'd need to make the students think about whether or not they are *actually* willing to deal with such things. Or maybe sex work isn't for them.
So I realized there's going to be a tension (at least!) between doing the exercises, declining some, and grading.
I *think* it could be done, but there are some definite gray areas. at *least* gray.
I'm looking for input both of the "ethics" and class topics and exercises.
This entry was originally posted at https://kengr.dreamwidth.org/1102644.html. Please comment there using OpenID.