[lbo-talk] Re: alt-porn & explicit content

Wendy Lyon wendy.lyon at gmail.com
Fri May 6 13:28:18 PDT 2005


On 5/6/05, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Except that this person sleeps with whom he/she
> chooses. Prostitutes have sex with whomever demands
> it.

and Joanna wrote:


> Yeah, I've heard of it, but it wouldn't occur to me to call it prostitution, volunteer or otherwise.
>
> I guess my mother would call it "sluttish." I would just call it someone wanting to have sex. Presumably, there would be some choice about partners, or we would all call it obsessive, but still not prostitution.

Prostitutes can and do choose NOT to sleep with some of the people who seek their services. It seems to me, Joanna, that you are either unaware of this fact, or else you are using a tautological definition of 'prostitution' to which the word 'volunteer' can NEVER apply.



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