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My mother awlays told me that just because I dislike the choices i have does not mean they are not present.

Sometimes you're given the choice between eating a turd sandwhich or eating a plateful of puke perogies. Just because you dislike one choice does not make that one choice go away. It's still there."

"The assumption that buying people things entitles you to sex is inherently ill-judged in the first place. It's one thing to *encourage* sexual activity by material means, it's entirely another to purchase sex or approve of it as a lifestyle.

The thought process doesn't condemn all forms of labour for payment. Sex is not labour, it is pleasure and a biological process, it is literally the renting of a body for a body's sake.

Again, "voluntary" isn't really voluntary if society is inherently unequal. The coercive ability of a lack of money is not to be underestimated. "Consenting adults" tend to have their opinions warped if they'll go hungry otherwise."

"I agree with Sharpie. If you walk up to a woman every day and ask her if she wants to f*ck, but you're a foot taller than her and outweigh her by forty or fifty pounds, and you look like the kind of guy who wouldn't balk at getting physical to get what you want, then "or else" can come across loud and clear whether the words ever pass your lips or not.

The sad truth is that laws these days are written, or at least interpreted, in such a way that you don't need proof of coercion, you just need proof that the victim BELIEVED they were being coerced. It ain't right, but it is what it is."

"EE, Sharpie, and w76k are all correct but by different shades of grey.

What the law says and how its enforced are different sides to the same coin. And the continuation of asking is thought of as verbal coercion and him being an authority figure and male just added to the issue. I still think its wrong if he didnt physically threaten her. In my book both where idiots on this one."

"I'd just like to toss this article out there as a counterpoint to the "all prostitution is rape" argument.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/jun/29/prostitution-a-means-to-an-end-for-college/
According to this one woman, it's a "dream Job".
I'll freely admit, this is probably not the norm. However, there are SEVERAL different articles like this on the internet, and I do recall a segment on (60 minutes, Dateline NBC? I can't remember) that covered this very situation. Some people are not in ANY way forced into that lifestyle, and in fact, enter it by choice.
Ergo, not rape."

"Realistically, I'd probably do that as a means to find slaves. No joke, you can fit a lot of things in a corset/skirt combo."

"I'll have to still contend that avoiding the situation is the best defence. Medusa does have a point. I've got enough things to worry about anyway than just getting my rocks off.

Personally, I find the brothel concept unsavory to say the least."

"you still gott the switch blade as long as you keep your <nobr>boots</nobr> on and potentially the .38 if you keep that 10 gallon hat on too, heck you don't even need to keep on the rest of your clothes. yee haw?"