george carlin on prostitution
I don’t understand why prostitution is illegal. Selling is legal, fucking is legal. So, why isn’t it legal to sell fucking? Why should it be illegal to sell something that’s legal to give away? I can’t follow the logic. Of all the things you can to do a person, giving them an orgasm is hardly the worst. In the army they give you a medal for killing people; in civilian life you go to jail for giving them orgasms. Am I missing something?
From Napalm & Silly Putty
At first, his argument is no different from any other common-sense argument regarding prostitution. But as he points out — in this society — “heroes” can be made by killing lots of people. Even serial killers are celebrated celebrities (most of the time their victims are women). But a woman who gives an orgasm to a man (who might not have had it otherwise) is a criminal and despicable human being.
I would ask that someone explain the logic to me in a way that makes sense. That won’t happen because it’s not possible. Even sadder, many of the arguments against prostitution operate off the base assumption that sex is violence. Only violence is violence, regardless of the form it takes.
Consensual orgasms between adults is not violence.
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Yeah, but pleasure is against some peoples’ religion.
JW,
Apparently so.
A cartoon in Playboy: a young woman leaving a church tells the pastor “If sex is dirty and degrading and will ruin my life, why should I save it for someone I love?” (I’m paraphrasing, but that was close.)
XX
I’m all for prostitution.
Except there aren’t any hot chicks offering me money to have sex with them. WTF?!
Ian
Ian,
Yours is the lament of men everywhere.
XX
It seems like everyone is thinking along the same lines. The illegalality and immorality of prostitution is likely rooted in religious beliefs. It does seem silly that it is illegal in all but one state.
Laura,
Religious values based on what? The purity of a woman’s womb? The purity of a man’s bloodline? I examined part of that line of thinking over here.
It is illogical though, especially since the modern American woman is supposed to be her own boss. Apparently it’s okay to place a value on a woman’s sexuality, as long as she doesn’t take matters into her own hands. I think that’s where the real “logic” comes in and it’s at such a base level people don’t even realize it.
My $0.02, of course.
XX
I think it should be made legal!