To not be ashamed...

[GirlFriendExperience]

That I'm an escort girl/call girl/high class prositute (whatever you want to call it) ...

I love my job, I'm very good at it, I pay taxes, it's not illegal and I help a lot of people. So why should I spend my life apologising for it/lying about it/defending myself??

• Yes have name changed in case I get flamed... which in itself is depressing!

"The question is whether women's hands, mouths, vaginas, anuses and breasts should be turned into a marketable body which men pay for and profit from"

So that is the question on whether sex should be a commodity or not

They buy and sell men and boys too.

So because there are fewer women paying men for sex than men paying women it ought to be dismissed-merely because the numbers don't add up the same way? Selling sex is as bad as buying it, no matter who is doing the selling or buying (gender wise).

The trafficking of human beings is different to consenting adults choosing to prostitute themselves.

That issue is surrounding the traffiking of people which is a seperate issue from prostitution although they are linked, due to the high nmbers of peole who are traffiked to work in the sex industry. Many other industries also use traffiked workers which is also very wrong but I think we need to address the issue of traffiking directly as the priority to stop traffiking of people and whilst going after certain players in the industries that use traffiked workers is definitely part of that, the banning of all players in that particular industry is not the way to go to address it IMO.

I have a friend who is a prostitute (or was, there are some major legal issues happening now and she's likely to have jail time; she's stripping now) and she claimed to love it and be happy. But anyone who took the time could see the issues behind it all.

I think it is dangerous, all of it. Porn, stripping, prostitution. It furthers the idea that people have a price, that it doesn't matter if they want to do something or not if you have enough money to throw at them.

And I don't often say it, but on this I'm behind Dittany 100%.

I don't necessarily disagree totally with Dittany.

I'm just making the point that there are male prostitutes in the world, and women do indeed hire them.

Just as long as you are willing to accept that there are women who pay men for sex, then it's all amicable.
I despise the sex trade, but I shan't be pulling out tales of woe merely for women, when men do the same thing.

Just because they haven't been trafficked, doesn't make them self loathing and miserable either.

LOTM - logically, your argument leads you to say there is no issue of gender inequality in political representation because we've had ONE (bloody awful) Prime Minister.

No. My argument is that men choose to be prostitutes as do women. Men and boys are trafficked, as are women.

Men are paid for sex, as are women.

I'm not talking numbers and ratios, I'm talking facts. Just because a feminist wants female superiority doesn't mean you disregard the fact that men are being sold for sex too.

So what about the women who are running the child trafficking rings in South Eastern Asia? Is that to do with men too?

"I love my job, I'm very good at it, I pay taxes, it's not illegal and I help a lot of people."

GirlFriendExperience

What do you love about your job? I'd genuinely like to know. I haven't had the chance to ever ask an escort girl, who says they love the job, that question.

OP YANBU What goes on in a bedroom between 2 consenting adults is up to them. If a man chooses to pay a woman to have sex with him then that is their business.

Yes, as long as you're willing to admit that women do indeed pay for sex, and that they too should be criminalised for it then that's fine.

It isn't just women; despite how the apologists dress it up.

You think it's tedious? Reading that women are the victim in EVERYTHING they do is tedious, and also damn right patronising.

I think the OP got bored of the people trying to put thoughts into her head or make ill informed guesses about her mental state and is not watching this thread anymore.

Men are indeed victims as well; you know, when women pay them for sex.