prostitution means that most of the people who go into prostitution have to eschew society's blessing, and people who eschew society's blessing probably already have a lot of other things wrong with them, so we end up with "prostitution = desperate drug addicts." My question is,
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is this phenomenon at play with self harm? Like, is the intense social stigma against self harm causing a similar association, where the only people who finally go do the self harm end up doing it irresponsibly, unsafely, and out of desperation?
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Duncan Sabien has written a *darned* great article about exactly this type of self-reinforcing representation cycle; he calls it the representativeness heuristic:https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/its-not-what-it-looks-like-cde2c6104455 …
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oh of course duncan would have written this. thank you this is perfect!
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Self-fulfilling hardship/harm?
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a similar dynamic been described by
@ProfEmilyOster: after "[vitamins] are healthy" becomes known, lots of health-enthusiasts take up vitamins and it starts to look like vitamins make you healthy, even if the two are unrelated.https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aeri.20190355&&from=f …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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sorry if this is too spicy, but ozy points out a related phonomenon (https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2016/07/21/on-age-of-consent/ …) where, if adults dating teenagers is stigmatized, then only unscrupulous adults will date teenagers, making adults dating teenagers worse than it necessarily is
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I saw more than a few of those relationships, middle schoolers and up to mid 20's legit date. Like parents knew and had them over for dinner. Usually low income, with multiple children. It felt weird because it looked like "1 less mouth to feed"
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Circumcision, as I discovered when responding to a tweet a couple of days ago. Who knew you’ve got such an active anti-circumcision following.
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Many activities result in incidental self-harm (like sports or getting a tattoo). But what society promotes harming yourself for its own sake or as a coping method?
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