Talk:Prostitution

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I'm pondering merging this with prostitute, they say practically the same thing at the moment. Armondikov 12:00, 17 September 2008 (EDT)

Sounds like a good idea. Which one do you think should be the redirect and which the article? ħumanUser talk:Human 14:21, 17 September 2008 (EDT)
Toss a coin I suppose but "prostitution" is the more overarching term. Armondikov 15:25, 17 September 2008 (EDT)
I tossed a coin, got same result. ħumanUser talk:Human 15:31, 17 September 2008 (EDT)
Yes, I say keep this title/heading/whatever, but merge by all means. Carptrash 15:41, 17 September 2008 (EDT)
Done, I'm going back to clicking "random page" until something interesting turns up.

[edit] Evolutionary origin/Other species

Although I don't have any strong opinion for its inclusion or removal, it is observed that early human societies exhibited what is referred to as "meat-for-sex" behavior. Whether this behavior can be called "prostitution" is a matter of debate. However behavior what is interpreted as prostitution do exist among certain animals. May be that can be included under a section title "Prostitution among animals"? --SupernovaExplosion (talk) 15:05, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

I'm getting less and less convinced by this. When all the sources on the Wikipedia article - and the source quoted her - are news reports of scientific reports rather than the reports themselves it raises suspicions. I first heard this theory propounded by Allen and Barbara Pease but they're hardly the best of sources and it doesn't seem to have that much widespread scientific support. Can we come up with anything better than an article from the Independent? Jack Hughes (talk) 15:24, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
It's a "feel good" study, in the sense that "this might have been the start of things', but nothing takes into account the changes in human culture from likely egalitarian food roles, to a more male focused culture as we became agrarian. Nothing looks at the role of being a second class citizen on the reality of prostitution. There are no cross cultural studies listed, etc. It's fun to speculate why some things are the way they are, but attaching "evoultion" to them, when our brains and complex cultural settings really make us fairly different from other animals so its very hard to make any assumptions of how this works. Pink mowse.pngGodotGrow a vagina 15:40, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
"it is observed that early human societies exhibited what is referred to as "meat-for-sex" behavior" - by the way how has this been "observed". we don't have any early human societies to watch this in.Pink mowse.pngGodotGrow a vagina 15:42, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Try Essex. Sophiebecause liberals 17:51, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Rape

Sex with prostitutes is also considered rape. Klop789 (talk) 22:54, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

Since when, by whom, and in what way? If they give informed consent it isn't rape. Wehpudicabok [話] [変] [留] 23:03, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
There is a school of thought that views prostitutes as victims of a "system of exploitation," and thus advocates the reform of anti-prostitution laws so that only "johns" and pimps can be arrested, not prostitutes themselves. It could be argued that such a policy implicitly denies the ability of prostitutes to give informed consent. Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX 23:25, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
The Swedish Model, yes. But even if their consent isn't recognized by law, it still exists. And in this case it is neither rape in law nor in reality. Wehpudicabok [話] [変] [留] 23:29, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

Since all nations, over thousands of years, were forced to need money. No woman, child or man would be a prostitute if there was equal wealth worldwide. You don't know that?

“When Corporations Rule the world” explains how we were forced to need money: “One of the major challenges faced by colonial administrators was to force those who obtained their livelihoods from their own lands & common areas to give up their lands & labor to PLANTATION development; that is, to MAKE them dependent on a money economy so that their resources, labor, & consumption might yield profits to the colonizers…“Forced labor was piously justified as ‘developmentally beneficial to the enslaved’!.....“The black does not like work ….It is therefore necessary to use….slavery to improve his circumstances … (1901 NOTE 1901!!)!!) “In many colonized countries, the imposition of taxes payable only in cash was used to FORCE people into the cash economy…. In Vietnam, the French imposed taxes on salt, opium, & alcohol. The British in Sudan taxed crops, animals, houses, & households. In their West African colonies, the French punished tax evasion by holding wives & children hostage, whipping men, burning huts, & leaving people tied up without food for several day. Development was a hard sell in those days…” “Korten came to believe that the deepening crisis of deepening change, growing inequality, environmental devastation, and social disintegration he was observing in Asia was also being experienced in nearly every country in the world –including the United States – and other “developed” countries. Furthermore he came to the conclusion that the United States was actively promoting –both at home and abroad – the very policies that were deepening the global crisis. For the world to survive, the United States must change.”. Read online Third World Traveler to see how USA causes world poverty with capitalism/slavery. Klop789 (talk) 02:49, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

And I saw a guy say it's rape on TV the other day! But I don't know who he was. Klop789 (talk) 02:55, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

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