Academic, author and political activist, Selina Todd is a credit to feminism and to the Left. We talk trades unions, and what a socialist response should be to the harms of prostitution.
When I worked as an alcohol and drug counsellor (about 20 years ago, in my late 20's, in New Zealand), I had a lot of prostituted women as clients. None of them were having an empowering, life affirming experience. None of them had made a positive choice. All of them had either been severely sexually abused as a child (an experience of abuse that was now being repeatedly replicated), or had severe mental illness (Schizophrenia for eg) and were being exploited. Generally the Schizophrenic (or low IQ) woman was being pimped out by her drug dealer (for a 20 dollar tinfoil of pot). The severely sexually abused woman was re-enacting her traumatic childhood in a way that endlessly re-traumatized her, to pay for the drugs that numbed the distress that came from that trauma.
If men want more sex then a woman wants to give them, they have every right to fulfil that need, by masturbating (in private). It's hard to see how anyone could possibly justify any other solution. It's in your hands boys.
When I worked as an alcohol and drug counsellor (about 20 years ago, in my late 20's, in New Zealand), I had a lot of prostituted women as clients. None of them were having an empowering, life affirming experience. None of them had made a positive choice. All of them had either been severely sexually abused as a child (an experience of abuse that was now being repeatedly replicated), or had severe mental illness (Schizophrenia for eg) and were being exploited. Generally the Schizophrenic (or low IQ) woman was being pimped out by her drug dealer (for a 20 dollar tinfoil of pot). The severely sexually abused woman was re-enacting her traumatic childhood in a way that endlessly re-traumatized her, to pay for the drugs that numbed the distress that came from that trauma.
If men want more sex then a woman wants to give them, they have every right to fulfil that need, by masturbating (in private). It's hard to see how anyone could possibly justify any other solution. It's in your hands boys.