[lbo-talk] sex at the margins

[John Thornton]

Chris Doss wrote:
> That's not my attitude. That's society's attitude. (Well, society's attitude is that they're either desperate for money, have serious psychological problems, are immoral scumbags, or some combination thereof.)
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> --- On Thu, 3/12/09, John Thornton <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> What they objected to was the attitude you are putting
>> forth. That this is the lowest class of job available to
>> someone, that they must be desperate for money and will
>> therefore fuck anything waving a few bills in their
>> direction. 

I don't mean your personal attitude but the attitude you're putting 
forth here. I have no idea what your personal attitude is.
I disagree that this is "societies attitude".
I don't think there is one specific overwhelming attitude in the US 
towards prostitution.
I think American's are frequently selfish moralizing self-righteous 
pricks but I don't see anything close to a monolithic disdain for 
prostitution.
I currently live in the lower Mid-west. One of the few states McCain won 
this last go 'round.
A great many of my neighbours think they're Real Americans in a Sarah 
Palin sort-of-way and yet they don't have this attitude about prostitution.
Nowhere I've lived have I ever seen this as the overwhelming attitude.

John Thornton