Do you think Prostitutes deserve Respect?

Who would enjoy the risk of rape and murder each time they do business?

But your 'belief' doesn't hold up to the facts. There is no reason why someone who likes the idea of having sex for a living for a lot of money has a "mental illness".
Just because someone enjoys doing something that you wouldn't doesn't make them "troubled".

Look at Sasha Grey, at the age of 18 she decided she hated the mono-culture of sexually repressiveness inherent in society. She then wrote to heads of adult-film production companies and insisted they give her a job telling them exactly what kind of sexual acts she was interested in doing.

She cites the reason she became a pornographic actress as "to help stop the stigma and stop the stereotypes against the adult film industry".
When asked "why porn" she replied "because it feels good". She comes from a supportive background, had a happy childhood and has no mental issues.

A. O. Scott of The New York Times described her pornographic career as "distinguished both by the extremity of what she is willing to do and an unusual degree of intellectual seriousness about doing it."

Those that work on the street only fear that as agencies are more stringent with whom get to see the women, also they share information with each other so if there is one trouble maker, he/she is barred for all other escort agencies.

As for rape, how so? they are paid before they start and most carry various items to help them get out of such situations.

Yeah, but through word of mouth and family friends it will eventually be known to both our families my wife or daughter is in that industry, it will inevitably be heard by the rest of the neighborhood that we have someone doing porn and to avoid any comments or remarks about people in my family it's best to stop it at it's root. ie, find a good woman in a decent job.

obviously if you were to live in say a desert with almost no social interactions then it's fine whatever you do, you can even have sex and lock your daughter in the basement like Frizel; but in completely normal middle-class family this is deemed unacceptable.

erm, I'm not gonna go into details

I'm not saying they have a mental illness. If you look at the two examples posed there is bound to be something in their past a factor that has compelled them to take up that profession. I think having a career in the adult industry where you are working with other pornographic actors to produce pornographic films is very different to a prostitute that sells sex to clients for money, surely you can see that.

Who would enjoy the risk of rape and murder each time they do business? Or having to have sex with weirdos?

But your 'belief' doesn't hold up to the facts. There is no reason why someone who likes the idea of having sex for a living for a lot of money has a "mental illness".
Just because someone enjoys doing something that you wouldn't doesn't make them "troubled".

Look at Sasha Grey, at the age of 18 she decided she hated the mono-culture of sexually repressiveness inherent in society. She then wrote to heads of adult-film production companies and insisted they give her a job telling them exactly what kind of sexual acts she was interested in doing.

She cites the reason she became a pornographic actress as "to help stop the stigma and stop the stereotypes against the adult film industry".
When asked "why porn" she replied "because it feels good". She comes from a supportive background, had a happy childhood and has no mental issues.

A. O. Scott of The New York Times described her pornographic career as "distinguished both by the extremity of what she is willing to do and an unusual degree of intellectual seriousness about doing it."

Risk of rape and murder? I guess you don't advocate walking down the street then...

The kind of life you're suggesting people should live is a very miserable and pathetic one.

The same Sasha Grey who quit the porn industry after a grand total of three years? I doubt she enjoyed it that much.

wait what the heck are you on about? Obviously being a prostitute would not be a good job, weirdo

Why wouldn't you approve of their career choice?

She has starred in over 250 films, became world famous and award-winning. She says she has done as much as she could possibly do in the adult film industry and pushed her boundaries as far as they could be pushed, so it was time pursue other artistic endeavours. I guess there's only so much you can do in one art form. She's now pursuing modelling, art and regular film acting. She's also been doing charitable work and reading to schoolchildren.

She also published a book which shares with the reader her "visual mosaic through photography, my sexual philosophy, and observations."

Sasha Grey: "It’s become quite evident that my time as an adult film performer has expired. Don’t worry, I haven’t found Jesus. One thing is for certain, I’m proud to say I have no regrets, I genuinely feel I accomplished everything I could as a performer. I was able to work with the industry’s most professional performers and companies, and I’ll always cherish the friends and relationships I was able to build. It was simply the perfect time for me to move on … while I was on top (pun indeed, intended). Life sometimes takes us in a direction we never could have imagined.”



Tell that to Belle Du Jour.

The differences don't seem significant enough to be worth mentioning. Both are having sex for money. Just one has a camera in front of it and the other one doesn't.

Nonetheless, Sasha Grey said,"You should be able to explore your sexuality without being ashamed of who you are inside." Including wanting to be a sex worker.

Sasha Grey "I want to change how women are perceived as asexual beings."
"A lot of women are repressed sexually. I want to show women that is okay to have fantasies. It's okay to push your own boundaries. And I'm here to push my own boundaries."

Porn for her was a political statement. In the same way many women will do sex work in order to fund their studies, or empower themselves as women.

So basically you're going to allow what other people think to dictate your life. Interesting... you know, I would prefer to live my own life how I see fit despite what other more ignorant/prejudiced people dream up in their little closed-off minds. But that's just me.

Who cares if they know? Shout it from the rooftops and be proud of it.


And homosexuality was once deemed unacceptable by "normal middle-class families". So a person could not even admit who they really were, they had to deny their self and their sexuality, just to fit in with 'appearances'. How superficial.

Only closed-minded people would find such things 'unacceptable'.

All these moral jackasses who are convinced that sex or selling sex is bad don't live by that... but because of their moral hypocrisy there are others who hear that message and try to live by it...

...even though every ounce of their rationality and their biological instincts resists what they have been force fed into their minds.

Guilt is what we feel when we violate our own sense of morality, or have conflicting moral beliefs about what we've done.

Shame comes from others. Those who seek to coerce us to conform to their beliefs use shaming as their control tactic.

Most people are ashamed to live openly, ashamed to admit to others who they really are.

Sadly, many of us don't even truly know ourselves. You wear a mask for so long and you forget who you were beneath it.

I think it is significant! I doubt highly that a prostitute who goes out and sleeps with strangers and not pornographic actors is doing it to explore their sexuality. A porn star performs sex acts in front of a camera with a fellow pornographic actor. It is normally contrived, edited and re done, so it is wholly an artificial process taken place over numerous takes. A prostitute sleeps with strangers for money and doesn't see the profession as a performance. Economic circumstances, drug addiction and in more cases exploitation and trafficking are the reason prostitutes decide to sell their bodies to STRANGERS for sex.

My point is that they should be treated with respect, as there are always severe circumstances that compel a person to sell themselves to strangers for money, that does not mean they are bad people, so we should not judge their actions with callous.

It's true what you said, we all live to please the crowd. But I would still not encourage people in my family/friends to go into the porn industry for fear of contracting an STI or being subjected to forms of violence and doing something they regret in the future.

I guess in the end it's not shame or setting a bad example which will deter me from letting people go into that industry it's actually their safety that im concerned about, and i guess we're all led to believe in that industry your loved ones could be exposed to bad-influences, meeting bad people who will exploit them.