Is prostitution selling your body or selling a service?
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Is prostitution selling your body or selling a service?I was reading an article today in the metro newspaper about women views on prostitution in Argentina. One woman said she feels that what she does is not a sign or selling her body but selling a service.
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Re: Is prostitution selling your body or selling a service?It's sort of like renting your body out to a penis (if your customer is male) and being paid for your penis/other parts of your body to stay in crappy accommodation (if your customer is female)
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Re: Is prostitution selling your body or selling a service?Well it's more a service than "selling the body" as, to state the obvious, no part of their body is being sold. If you want to use that analogy it's more of a "rental service" than a "sale".
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Re: Is prostitution selling your body or selling a service?I'd say it depends why you're doing it.
If you really need the money, have no choice or were forced - it's selling yourself. I'd say it's also selling your body if you do it in a back hand kinf of way/want the reputation as a slut (not sure why you would, but who knows.)
If you enjoy sex for sex, chose it as a career and do it in a legal way (like the legal brothels in America) then it's a service.
It also depends on how the person sees it - if they feel it's a service, then I suppose it's a service. -
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Re: Is prostitution selling your body or selling a service?Prostitution is selling a service (sex) and to do that, the body needs to be used.
And since the body isn't given away (sold), it's more like "rented out" so I guess prostitution is loaning the body to the customer for the service.
