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No one in their right mind finds paying a decorator degrading.
What the fuck? Visiting a therapist is degrading now? I've heard some weird things, but you take the biscuit.
When people tell me they found therapy degrading I believe them. You, however, appear to treat their feelings as a joke. I guess if it gets you out of answering the question it must be fair game.
Sorry, not me.
Or do you not know what degrading means, despite the reference I gave you.
no, prostitution is a service. Do keep up.
no, I'm not. I can't even see how you're trying to twist my words to reach that interpretaion. not as big as your lack of english comprehension
'Ms Mactaggart told BBC News: "Frankly I do not buy the view that it is the oldest profession and we have to live with it.
"There are things that can and should be done to reduce the impact of prostitution on communities, to reduce the number of women involved in prostitution.
"It is a form of child abuse - most women who are prostitutes started being prostitutes at the age of 13 or 14 and we have got to have strong mechanisms to reduce prostitution."
I would imagine it's this element of child abuse (which wasn't referred to in the original post) which has fundamentally led to the decision not to carry things forward, there's been an increasing examination by children's charities over the last couple of years at the level of child prostitution that exsists in the UK, though of course you could agree that legalising prostitution, rather than what was being suggested, (which was pretty much unregistered, unmonitored cerb-crawling in certain areas), would make this easier to regulate.
Prostitution might be "as old as any institution" however I hardly believe that those women being trafficked to the UK or trafficked to any country for sex would see it as a harmless service. I expect that they feel very vulnerable. Being raped time and time again day after day is not a harmless service, prostitution is certainly not something that should be advocated. I think zero tolerance should be introduced, but I agree with what others have said...this will need to be backed up with real support for those women involved and they need to be given the opportunity to gain skills that will help keep them off the streets.
You're seriously comparing paying for a decorator with prostitution? You really are quite an odd chap.
You must be having some bad sex if its like doing a puzzle!
A service? Like a taxi service? You get weirder and weirder.
I'm not the one with the problem - you're the one comparing paying for a decorator with prostitution.
We are talking about legalised brothels for women over the age of 18.
Have you ever seen or heard of the bunny ranch in the usa? it is a borthel there were the girls choose to be prostitutes, earn thosuands of dollars a month, get free valuable goods, places to live some of them and enjoy their time there. None of them were force dinto it, noe of them HAVE to do it. They choose to. Why should we make what they want to do illegal when it doesn't hurt anyone.
Drugs hurt people so lets get off that subject. Thats the difference.
and excuse me bu tno1 has defined what form of prositution we are talking about. Brothels come into th edebate. You cannot single out and only mention the worst kind sof prostitution just to support your argument.
isn't up to the individual what is degrading and what isn't?
oh and blagsta I am reporting you, I have had enough of your personal insults and comments against me.
And Blagsta, stop being so pedantic - it's doing nowt for any of the debates.
So in your world, prostitution doesn't hurt people?
Report away.
Where am I being pedantic?
Every prositute I have ever met or spoken to or even know of has been a victim of abuse in their childhood. Prostitution is a continuation of this abuse.
I admit I haven't asked this question, but I would consider it unlikely. I agree it can be, but regulation would be a better route to addressing this than prohiition.
So selling sex is the same as, say, selling potatoes?
You don't half write some shit.
Okay so it was a crap example but the point being made was that in general there can be services where it is the user of the service who is degraded, not the provider.
Actually I'd say that the wall-paper thing is kind of the opposite- if you can afford to pay someone else to hang your wallpaper that is. But this isn't about decorators so it's not really relevant.
50% of cold call operators I know have quit to become prostitutes; the remaining 50% just quit.
37.5% of IT support staff have been reduced to tears by our customers, 12.5% quit because of it
how the hell is she supposed to carry on being a whore?
accepting it as normal?
people have provided sex and sexual favours like forever ...and your still afraid it might be seen as normal!
Many women (and men and children) are trapped in this way of life either literally and physically e.g. human traffic victims or in so much as they have not alternative way of earning money for food etc.
Perhaps you believe that Civil partnerships mean people will accept gay partnerships as normal, which would "obviously be a bad thing"