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[Nuclear Unicorn]

186. So this thread calls out the "Prostitution is Violence" thread

Supposedly to point out some absurdity in the latter thread. To do this the new OP conflates prostitution with masturbation and we're supposed to just acknowledge this as fact, admit to the presumed absurdity and move on.

Except I don't see it that way.

If prostitutes are are the equivalent of maturbation than they have been just as dehumanized as if they were treated violently. Perhaps the OP is just really bad analogies but it seems to me it's equating women -- living, breathing, dreaming human beings -- with tissues that wipe up the mess and are thrown away. Prostitutes, in fact no human being, should not be considered so readily used and disposed of when no longer useful.

Look at every evil destroying our world and you will see the exact same attitude of disposability for someone else's pleasure at work. War. Corporate greed. Environmental destruction. Genocide. All of it is based on humans becoming commodities to be bought, sold, exhausted and traded by those with money.

I stayed out of the original-original OP because I had some mixed feelings on the subject. This thread may very well tilt my opinion; but not in the manner in which the OP of this thread had hoped.