[lbo-talk] Marriage and Prostitution

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Mon May 9 11:27:36 PDT 2005


Old New Yorker cartoon from the days when you could ask hotels with a bellboy to send you up a girl. Guy opens the hotel door and there is a balding, middle-aged man with a tweed jacket and a portable typewriter standing there. "You sent for a prostitute?"

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> joanna wrote:
>
> >But just as celebrating abortion is not the right
> move in support of
> >feminism; neither is saying "sex work is just
> another job" ...
> >because ultimately we don't all want to be whores
> of any stripe.
>
> Your choice of words here suggests that you're
> viewing the prostitute
> as the prototype for all workers, not seeing the
> prostitute as an
> instance of the whole class of exploited workers.
>
> Doug
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