Many of the 'women have a right to their own bodies' people are really 'women have a right to their own bodies insofar as we think it's a good idea' people, as evidenced by the laws that prohibit women from choosing to have sex if there's money involved.
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It’s not a choice when it’s exploitation of economic vulnerability and poverty, in the same way organ trafficking is not about bodily autonomy and free will. If so many women were willing, sex and surrogacy trafficking wouldnt be a global issue & multi-million $ industry
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I'd be okay with this argument if you applied it equally to everything. Don't allow people in economic vulnerability to work as massage therapists, in coal mines, anything that involves their body or any sort of risk. Only wealthier people can do it.
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it's remarkable how consistent support is for other people's right to make choices that the person being asked approves of
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Freedom of choice (pro abortion) tendencies correlate very well with favouring legalization of sex work.
They might not overlap perfectly but your take is wrong
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I think it’s more of a christian attitude about sex for money that they deem it “bad”. But it also comes from a period where women’s lives were ruled by men. It was not until the 60’s sexual revolution that women were given more freedoms. You can have free love but not paid love
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Well, the laws against prostitution are supposed to apply to men, including male customers ("Johns") as well.
But selective enforcement and so on.
Ostensibly those are supposed to protect prostitutes from exploitation by pimps. But, well …
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"Men have a right to their own bodies" = a right to fully express the potential of violent oppression afforded by muscularity?
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