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Gos wrote:Why is it appropriate for a sex worker to be a moderator on this board? I'm not comfortable completely condemning the industry entirely but I do find it intriguing that this board has reached a point where this is entirely not an issue whatsoever. When did it become accepted that prostitution was an entirely moral and acceptable profession?
I'm quite sure that many (or most) of the members of this board have angrily condemned this or that politician, lobbyist, or corporate executive for being a "whore" to one special interest group or another, so why is it that someone that is an actual prostitute is completely ok? I don't look at it as a victimless crime. I would advise anyone that does to call up your middle aged mother and ask her how she would feel if she found out that her husband had been sleeping with a beautiful, young prostitute.
Now, I read a bit of your blog Peregrine, and one of the first things I noticed was that you refer to yourself as a courtesan. I didn't know exactly what that meant so I looked it up and here's the definition:
"A woman prostitute, especially one whose clients are members of a royal court or men of high social standing"
So, basically, what I'm trying to understand is why, when this board has no hesitancy to refer to our countries royal court or men of high social standing (and those that do business with them) in the most vile and condemnatory language, we think nothing of those that would reward these bastards with sexual gratification. Not to mention the basic inequity that surrounds who can actually AFFORD to pay for high class prostitutes. We get infuriated when the wealthy can afford gated communities and gold plated toilets by exploiting the populace, yet we care not a whit that their exploitative ways can net them as many beautiful and talented young women as they desire? Why?
American Dream wrote:Whoah! That's what I call a very personal attack!
Sex workers are to me workers, first and foremost. They deserves dignity, respect, rights.
American Dream wrote:Under Capitalism, most everybody is selling something of themselves that is precious. Should we all be shamed for this?
American Dream wrote:Why such a divisive and personalizing post?
barracuda wrote:It's a legitimate question, I presume, although coming from a poster whose sole public interest in the board up to this point has been exclusively to seek out fellow member's sources for Cointelpro information, I must say it seems strategically a bit weird.
barracuda wrote:But Peregrine's acceptance as a moderator here has very little, if anything, to do with her activities outside of the board. Her value is assessed according to her contributions and demeanor here, as you may assume is true of the contributions of any other anonymous poster. I'd hate to have the first stone thrown at me for my experiences or record in real life, outside of here, which have included any number of actions which might actually be deemed somewhat more than unsavory by somebody's hypothetical middle-aged mother. It just may be that this particular forum is not particularly geared toward your average middle-aged mother, unless of course she happens to be all about post-graduate research concerning the jellyfish invasion awakening of the transhumanist corporate UFO inevitable, or possesses a genuine interest in the world of MC-RA, or any of a number of topics rarely discussed at the bridge club.
barracuda wrote:In other words, take your conservative ideas about what constitutes appropriateness and place them about two inches to the left of your right hand pants pocket, and take a seat. And look out - the information on this forum, if properly used, may lead you to the understanding that you, yourself, are a willing prostitute to forces you consider to be beyond even your control or understanding, but succumb to nonetheless. Most people do.
barracuda wrote:And get that fucking log out of your eye while you're at it.
Simulist wrote:I didn't know that I could still get fighting mad by reading "words on a screen," but you've just proven to me, Gos, that I ain't dead yet.
What do YOU prostitute yourself at, Gos? I'd like to know.
Why? Because just about everybody in the world does it, and probably you do, too. People "sell themselves" all the time to make a buck, doing things they'd rather not do, with people they'd rather not be doing it for, and in ways they'd rather not be doing it — and I'm not talking about "courtesans" of any kind! I'm talking about bankers, store clerks, soldiers, gas station attendants, priests, ministers, rabbis, and the schlep who sells vegetables by the roadside.
We ALL reward "bastards" of "high social standing" every time we pay our taxes, every time we buy goods or services from corporations wholly-owned or even partially-owned by the vile, disgusting dirt-bags that really run your country and mine.
Which one are you, Gos? Whose ass do you kiss to make a buck?
If you want to single out "sex workers" for your scorn, you're certainly not alone. Hypocrites are everywhere, and they come a dime a dozen.
Peregrine, on the other hand, is no hypocrite — she's honest about who she is. You probably don't even deserve to prostitute yourself by shining her shoes.
Stuff it.
I think in the case of prostitution one agrees to an excess of degradation for an excess of money. Sorry.
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