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My summary/impressions of the opinions y'all got from textbooks;
You wear rose tinted glasses through which you see a world in which women would only ever give free and willing consent to a sexual act if they were forced. You throw out some ill-concieved loophole line about exceptions, (like did anybody notice how Alan thought unforced prostitution was totally cool and Versus decided it was a Utopia, then someone posted a story about how a girl they know got ***** and knocked the fuck out and nobody batted an eyelid?), but at the end of the day you're turning away from some potentially disturbing truths.
It's like someone asks you "what do you think of contract killers" and you start yelling "THEY ARE ALL CHILD SOLDIERS IN AFRICA" (while also making some questionable inferences about the stance of the person asking the question, forgive the bitching). Is murder an appropriate analogy for sex? You-know-who (Dostoevsky) makes the comparison in you-know-what (Crime and Punishment) and his understanding of morality and human nature was profound; not that I wish to appeal to authority, but I must question where the perception of the immorality of the deed comes from. Even Dostoevsky, the great sympathiser, had to excuse his character from her profession by casting her into desperate circumstances; why does there have to be an excuse!
You guys probably like to think of yourselves as modern and progressive, the champions of those burdened by unfair stigma, but on this question you just throw up walls. You deny the group in question agency of it's own; rather than saying "it's okay to be a whore if you want" (some of you agreed but it didn't seem very, how shall I put this, well thought out) you say "nobody chooses to be a whore*" and the question "is it okay for people to start whoring themselves out and do they deserve the ostracism and castigation people would dish out on them if they knew" is completely dismissed.
*"also, the fact you asked this question means you support slavery! by the way, it's really enlightened of us to be against slavery. It's a special club that only the best and most brilliant minds can be a part of, just like atheism!"
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