Comments on: Ruminations on the Oldest Profession

By: David Broockman

David Broockman — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:14:15 +0000

I have no problem with capitalist coercion generally. Why else would anyone work?

It’s fine when it’s in terms of coercing people to have to do dignified things - lay bricks, or anything else. But call it for what it is - hanging the threat of starvation over someone’s head to make them do something. And it’s fine, because that’s the only way it works. Whatever. Cool.

But when it turns sexual, it’s rape. Not by the person giving the woman the money, but by the society that requires money for food, etc. Again, there’s nothing wrong with this in my eyes when it’s something ordinary. But when it’s sex, that’s how I see it.

By: Nicola

Nicola — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:27:13 +0000

I wouldn’t go so far as to say that capitalism is coercion, but certainly offering a woman money for sex when she has no other way of feeding herself/her family is edging on rape. I have another post coming about why some kinds of coercion in the workforce (Jake’s sewage plant example) are okay, and some aren’t.

By: David Broockman

David Broockman — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:23:52 +0000

Also, capitalism = coercion, prostitution = social coercion to get money, ergo prostitution = rape by society.

By: Iqra’i: The Profane Profession

Iqra’i: The Profane Profession — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:22:05 +0000

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By: Jake McGuire

Jake McGuire — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:59:04 +0000

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http://yalefreepress.blogspot.com/2008/03/prostitution-and-conservatism-round-2.html