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Number 10 petition to criminalise men who buy sex

461 replies

policywonk · 27/01/2010 17:03

Sign here if, you know, you want to

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AnyFucker · 09/02/2010 20:44

I have a question. It is for OLKN.

It may offend you.

Have you ever been involved in prostitution ?

dittany · 09/02/2010 20:47

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Lovecat · 09/02/2010 20:48

Having read this thread from start to finish with no particular opinion on the matter, I'm signing the petition. OLKN (more than TSH, she's been pushing her own bizarre agenda since she started posting here), I'm shocked at you.

Agree with AF, this is a horrible thread, but at least it's made me think about these issues and try to do something about it.

dittany · 09/02/2010 20:51

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AitchTwoOhOneOh · 09/02/2010 20:53

fucking hell, olkn, i'm afraid those blogs do nothing to help your case. this guy tried to kill her

OldLadyKnowsNothing · 09/02/2010 21:01

Oh do give over ditanny - you claim (without much by way of evidence of convictions) that prostitution is incredibly violent, I point out that monogamy would appear, on the face of it, to be more dangerous still. Why is that puke? What's the violence level like for soldiers, for A&E staff on a Friday night...?

Not all brothel keepers are men - where on earth do you get that from? And certainly not all "customers" are, either.

And most brothel keepers don't "sell another person to a man to use for sex"; they don't generally own people, for a start. (Please remember that I am talking about the part of the industry that is staffed by women who want to be there, not "enslaved" women, whose numbers are so small that Operations Pentameter 1 & 2 couldn't find any, despite involving every police force in the country.)

Brothel keepers rent space to prostitutes, provide heat, light, shower facilities, clean towels and sheets. They usually provide a maid and perhaps some further form of security. They do this in return for a fee. No prostitute is employed by a brothel keeper and every prostitute is free to go home at the end of her shift, or to put her feet up and have a cup of tea and a gossip with the other "staff" when it's quiet.

Have you visited your friendly local brothel lately, ditanny? Ever spoken to a happy hooker? Your friend Bindel was given the opportunity recently, she inexplicably declined.

AitchTwoOhOneOh · 09/02/2010 21:02

are you professionally involved in prostitution, olkn? or a user of prostitutes?

AnyFucker · 09/02/2010 21:06

oi, aitch, I asked that first !

AitchTwoOhOneOh · 09/02/2010 21:07

i know, but olkn ignored it when you asked.

AnyFucker · 09/02/2010 21:07

olkn...are you really sgb ?

AitchTwoOhOneOh · 09/02/2010 21:08

sgb wouldn't adopt a nom de plume, i don't think. not her style.

AitchTwoOhOneOh · 09/02/2010 21:09

i hope, anyway.

AnyFucker · 09/02/2010 21:09

oh right, I thought I was being ignored in favour of the big guns on this thread ?

I have no links, I have no research to quote (too, too scary for me)

bit I would like an answer to that question

PollyTroll · 09/02/2010 21:09

Fair enough, af. (Had thought you were pretty much unshockable tbh! In a good way.) I have the luxury of already knowing what I think so haven't forced myself to read all the links/testimony.

Lovecat - that's interesting.

Anyone watching this prog about birth on C4? This poor woman's husband is a tosser.

AnyFucker · 09/02/2010 21:10

that's what I thought too aitch, but

dittany · 09/02/2010 21:10

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StayFrosty · 09/02/2010 21:10

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AnyFucker · 09/02/2010 21:12

well, polly

I am fairly unshockable, but not at all "unupsettable"

Is that a word ?

dittany · 09/02/2010 21:17

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Mumcentreplus · 09/02/2010 21:17

nah..but it should be AF

PollyTroll · 09/02/2010 21:19

Maybe 'not 'imperturbable'?

OldLadyKnowsNothing · 09/02/2010 21:20

I'm not SGB.

I note that the usual cycle is starting; TheShriekingHarpy was accused of being a man, of being one of "those people from Punternet", now it's coming to me. How very imagiinative - if a woman disagrees with you, she must be a bloke in disguise.

Yes, there are reports of abuse on those forums - I specifically linked to the RSS feed of the "Dodgy Punters" earlier, in fact - but my point is that those reports are not coming in daily by any means. And those are reports that are made by sex-workers to benefit other sex-workers, so avoiding potentially unsympathetic police. If the levels of abuse are as atrocious as ditanny would have us believe, why are those boards not inundated?

AnyFucker · 09/02/2010 21:24

olkn, I didn't accuse you of being a bloke

I just wondered why you seemed so invested in the merits of sex for money

it's a simple question, really

AitchTwoOhOneOh · 09/02/2010 21:24

now hang on, i've not asked anything difficult or offensive, particularly given your position on this thread.

i just said 'are you professionally involved in prostitution, olkn? or a user of prostitutes?'

you could be a support worker at a base centre, for all i know. if you are professionally involved then that would be interesting, i think.

were you going to answer the questions or just take umbrage and ignore them?

Mumcentreplus · 09/02/2010 21:27

I have said it before and I will say it again..selling your arse (prostitution) is a means to an end..not a career..

you can play it anyway you want but its about women selling their bodies..

No prostitute is employed by a brothel keeper and every prostitute is free to go home at the end of her shift, or to put her feet up and have a cup of tea and a gossip with the other "staff" when it's quiet.

free to go home?...its her own business..she can surely go home when she pleases?

she can put her feet up and gossip with staff when its quiet?...its her business!..she can gossip all night and decide to go home if she wants right?