Prostitution

[Darorinag]

Eh, I will keep this in this forum, to save the moderators the trouble of moving it from the intellectual forum (since they look down upon a lot of the topics as not fit to be in that forum of elites), so here it goes:

A quotation from a book, "All women are prostitutes of one kind or another."

Do you agree?

I disagree. I think a lot of women are, but to say "all" is just a huge stretch, i think. But then again, it all depends on what you define as prostitution.. anyone who goes to work is basically used (and prostitutes do get paid), so are they prostitutes too?

[Anonymouse]

Well, think about it this way, we all pay for sex, directly or indirectly, so yes women are prostitutes.

[Darorinag]

Originally posted by Anonymouse Well, think about it this way, we all pay for sex, directly or indirectly, so yes women are prostitutes.

but doesn't it mean that men are prostitutes too? if you go and pay to have sex, or even if you pay for it in one way or another, aren't you a prostitute too? just because you're the "active" one doesn't mean you're not a prostitute, or does it? lol

[SagGal]

Re: Prostitution

From what book is that quote from?

...we all pay for sex, directly or indirectly, so yes women are prostitutes.

I don't know what you mean by that. Care to explain?

[Darorinag]

From what book is that quote from?

Woman at Point Zero - Nawal El Saadawi

It's also the topic of my essay.. lol

But rest assured, I'm not a plagiarist! I'm actually supposed to write the essay based on another novel, by J.M. Coetzee, called Disgrace. But I just wanna hear what you guys think about it. I think my thesis will be that a lot of women are, but not all.

[Anonymouse]

The argument is, if you pay for sex directly, then you are paying to have sex from a prostitute.

However, I care to look beyond that and look at the normal ordinary relations. Society is based on money, commodity and exchanged. If you think about it, all of us pay for sex, maybe not directly as is the case with a direct prostitute, but indirectly we all pay for sex, with time, with gas money, with money on presents, dates, anniversaries, etc., etc.

[Anonymouse]

Originally posted by Darorinag Woman at Point Zero - Nawal El Saadawi

It's also the topic of my essay.. lol

But rest assured, I'm not a plagiarist! I'm actually supposed to write the essay based on another novel, by J.M. Coetzee, called Disgrace. But I just wanna hear what you guys think about it. I think my thesis will be that a lot of women are, but not all.

Believe it or not, I never read the book, I just came to that conclusion by myself.

[Darorinag]

Is the man who pays to have sex a prostitute too, then? And what if women actually LIKE to be prostitutes, and have the sex, and get the money, ergo double benefits? Doesn't that technically make the MEN prostitutes?

[SagGal]

.....aren't you a prostitute too? just because you're the "active" one doesn't mean you're not a prostitute, or does it? lol

I don't think so because you are just the idiot who payed for sex. The person who is selling him/herself to you is the prostitute.

If you think about it, all of us pay for sex, maybe not directly as is the case with a direct prostitute, but indirectly we all pay for sex, with time, with gas money, with money on presents, dates, anniversaries, etc., etc.

I see what you're getting at, but if that's true then I guess we're paying for the drugs and all that also since money does circle around like that.

[Anonymouse]

Hence the phrase "money is dirty". Hehe.