First of all, you're the one who said that given that everything is commodified why shouldn't sex also be commodified. Second, I never uttered a word about political correctness or political spheres. Nor did I ever say anything about people being "trained" in any kind of pc sex. In fact, everything I said argued for the importance of freedom...for both sides...in sexual relations. I tried to draw attention to the ways in which porn and prostitution constrained sexual relations -- though I know you see them as examples of some kind of freedom.
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> >As for "sex work is for most people the only means to satisfy their
> >legitimate sexual urges"....most people? really?
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>Yes, Joanna, really....sometimes men and women get horny, and they can't
>rely on their significant mates to relieve their desires. Would you
>prefer that they repress these desires just for the sake of
>"anti-commodification"??
Acting out or repression? Are those the only two choices in your universe?
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> >Do I believe that sexual urges are legitimate? That's not the issue. They
> >exist: people get horny. But there's no direct link between sexual urges
> >and visiting a prostitute that I can think of.
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> >Joanna
> >
>Ask any horny man or woman who's been rejected by his/her partner and he
>or she will beg to differ with that.
>
>Anthony
>(A dildo is an object; a prostitute (or a sex worker) and her clients are
>real human beings. Why can't some people accept that basic fact???)
In your ideal world, where sex workers are essentially therapists who freely choose to do this kind of work, a sex worker would be a real human being. In this world where prostitution skyrockets as immiseration grows or where a young woman "chooses" to be a prostitute over an 12-hour shift in a factory or starvation, they are still human beings, they're just not treated as such.
Joanna