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Originally Posted by tecoyah
I will address this for you.
Prostitution is not a forced profession. It has been with us for an extremely long time, and is respected as a form of employment in many cultures, or so is my understanding.
The primary dissent in our culture is derived from Christian Values, and has little bearing on the base morality of the profession as a whole. Should one decide to undertake this form of employment, it is of ones own volition, and is generally not due to having no choice in the matter.
Slavery, was and is a forceful removal of the rights of an individual, rather than an exercise of these rights.
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Were you addressing this to me?
I should have been more explicit, I thought everyone knew that prostitution accounts for over 2 million women and children being enslaved and smuggled internationally.
It's been in the news for the past decade.
Very few of our US prostitutes are consenting adults. Even the bulk of those are impoverished, beaten, and controlled by violent men.
Young girls comprise a large segment of our prostitution population. They aren't consenting, and they aren't adults. Most often they are tricked by dreams of opportunity and sucked into a life of drug dependency.
The bulk of our prostitutes are enslaved women and children from other countries. They pour into our nation by the tens of thousands every year at the hands of crime syndicates who either promise citizenship and stable employment or snatch them from their villages.
I should also add that in no case that I know of do prostitutes have control over their money. They work for others--so I take issue with the notion that women and men singularly exhange money and relating this to some sort of contractual agreement.
The money either goes to the slave traders, pimps, or Madame.