Commodification of sex

[Alex]

No, but the reasons don't have to do with the sex.

I also don't assume that the woman blowing a horse on a web site is a drug addict. I know enough people to know that isn't the only reason someone would do such a thing.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

No, but the reasons don't have to do with the sex.

To expand a bit. I don't equate doing something for bad reasons to the thing itself being bad.

Now, the bad reasons that lead people to prostitution and the sex trade are frequently more pitiable (to my view) than the bad reasons people end up living in a cube farm, even if in the end result both are equally miserable (how do you measure misery? five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes...).

Then there is the fact that because society as an average has decided that being a sex worker is distasteful, it is sad that a person who feels it is their only avenue (or simply because they like it) is burdened with the extra baggage that has nothing to do with the actual sex but rather the reaction of others.