It's about free choice over your own body
anonymous
June 28 2006, 21:10:36 UTC
For starters the rape rate in the US has been on a steady decline since the late 70's, with a marked drop occurring around the same time the internet really took off. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/rape.htm Given these stats, if one were to draw a parallel between the two, the conclusion would be pornography causes a decline in the number of rape incidents. After all, it is pretty obvious that the internet has made porn more readily available and increased the number of regular users of porn drastically. Yet the rape rate has dropped from 1.2 per 1,000 in 1995 to .04 per 1,000 in 2004
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Re: It's about free choice over your own body
anonymous
July 6 2006, 22:41:28 UTC
I agree that legalized prostitution (at least in this country) screws women over, which is why virtually ALL women in prostitution want it decriminalized, not legalized. The difference is that legalized prostitution means being pimped by a brothel on which you are a virtual prisoner (can't leave the compound). The establishment takes half their earnings, and if a customer arrives by taxi, an additional 20% of her earnings goes to the cabbie. Brothel workers must abide by strict rules and can't turn away clients unless they are intoxicated or have visible signs of an STI, yet they are considered contractors and therefore they don't get employee benefits and they must pay self employment tax, which is much higher than what they would pay as employees
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Re: It's about free choice over your own body
anonymous
July 6 2006, 22:44:27 UTC
The findings of the abolitionist-minded researchers, such as Melissa Farley, Donna Hughes and Janice Raymond- just to name a few, are highly suspect. Here's a great paper that points out the flaws and flat out manipulation of research results these women have used http://www.woodhullfoundation.org/content/otherpublications/WeitzerVAW-1.pdf Reliance on unrepresentative samples is widespread. Although random sampling of sex workers and customers is impossible, too often the findings and conclusions drawn from convenience and snowball samples are not properly qualified as
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