Who Gets To Have Sex: Being Physically Disabled Shouldn't Be The Dividing Line (And Doesn't Have To Be)
It doesn't have to be -- if physically disabled people are able to buy sex on the free market.
This came out of something I tweeted -- a conversation about people who are determined to stop sex work because they know what's best for sex workers and their clients...including their physically disabled clients.
And it isn't just disabled people who benefit from having access to escorts. Scott Shackford writes at Reason (about the Feds shutting down the Rentboy.com website):
Say you're a pudgy, lonely 55-year-old man in southern Illinois with a fetish for something very kinky. You're a minority within a minority. What do you do if you can't find somebody around you who shares your interest? DHS, Brooklyn's U.S. attorney's office, and a bunch of cops in New York City think you should just do without.
Prostitution used to be legal in the US in most places, even if sort of hidden. In 1970 in my college town everyone knew where the whore house was. It still should be legal. It began its decline when during WWII the army didn't want hookers near army bases.
Many people find prostitution "icky" but I say it is none of their business. Now the latest thing is to call it "sex-trafficking" with the implication that the hookers are under age/slaves/victims. Of course if the cops are after you all the time you do end up getting victimized. In some places just having a prior conviction/arrest and being caught loitering is enough for another arrest. "Loitering" can be a matter of opinion--some are even arrested waiting for the bus.
cc at August 9, 2017 2:50 PM
How many more articles about the importance of human touch, sexual relations, and the horrors of loneliness need to be written?
But those people are fat, old, or likely male, so just too icky to contemplate them having sex.
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Related:
Suggest a man who doesn't want to be a father and have financial responsibility for a child he doesn't want, and everyone will agree That man can choose not to have sex.
But suggest a woman who doesn't want babies can choose not to have sex, and omg, you'll have all of google breathing down your neck!
jerry at August 9, 2017 11:25 PM
everyone will agree That man can choose not to have sex.
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No, they won't. They'll agree that a man who doesn't know the woman that well should be using condoms anyway if he doesn't want to catch an incurable disease. Not unlike unwanted parenthood. (Or that men think condoms aren't good enough, that they could contribute to Parsemus and hasten the arrival of Vasalgel - something that even rich celebs aren't doing right now.)
And any man - married to the mother or not - could claim that he never wanted the kid and thus shouldn't have to support it. That can't be allowed.
lenona at August 10, 2017 10:57 AM
There is an element to prostitution that few realize: if you want to make it "safe", you must identify clients positively, because there is no test that can prevent disease transmission in that case. That's something none of the prudes in the USA will allow, and in fact the general public is so schizophrenic about sex you'll never see them agree to it.
Radwaste at August 10, 2017 4:09 PM
Rad, please explain further.
And you DO know that schizophrenia is not about having a split personality, right?
(If all people - especially newscasters - devoted themselves to using proper terms, grammar, pronunciation, etc., after a while it would stop seeming strange - and the less-educated viewers might even start copying them! How often does "evacuated" get used correctly on the news?)
lenona at August 10, 2017 4:31 PM
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