Commodification of sex

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

Bad jobs and bad treatment are bad. However, you can't seriously tell me that when you see an unhappy office worker, you feel as bad for him/her as for some tackily dressed hooker yelling at cars on a street corner in a bad neighborhood in the rain or for some drug addict on a web site blowing a horse.

An unhappy office worker can be far worse than unhappy. There are plenty of suicidal, lonely people stuck in jobs that drain their personality, energy, and self-esteem dry. That's why they call it "going postal".

There are also plenty of self-destructive people living in wealthy situations. It's not always about money. I personally think that people that let cameras into their actual lives for the entertainment of others (like Jessica Simpson or Danny Bonaduce) are the worst kind of whores there are. Game show-style reality series are a different beast than these my-awful-existence-is-on-display type freak shows. If my child came home saying they were doing THAT, I'd definitely be disappointed. That's where I start using words like "exploitation" and "degrading".

Making issues like exploitation supposedly gender and career specific is entirely off-point, IMHO. I truly believe that whatever makes people happy, honestly happy, is what they're supposed to do, regardless of designation.