Should Prostitution Be Made Illegal In Argentina?

[sleslie23]

Thanks, Captain Obvious!

I almost fell out of my chair! The main reason anyone goes into anything is financial.

 

[Joe]

Prostitution is based more on instinctual behaviors than social indoctrination. There are even documented cases of prostitution in animals.

It is not simply a case of "retraining men's bad behavior".

With the emergence of the Political Correctness movement this is going to make a lot of people angry - as I have learned on other subjects that violated the tenants of political correctness.

Anyway I will refrain from elaborating on this further in order to limit the venom heading my way on this issue.

Ceviche on a street corner with a pocket full of pebbles.

The female penguins, even when in a committed relationship, will exchange sexual favors with strange males for the pebbles they need to build their nests.[sup][1][/sup]

"Strange Males", seems like a bit of a value judgement.

 

[khairyexpat]

Prostitution is based more on instinctual behaviors than social indoctrination. There are even documented cases of prostitution in animals.

It is not simply a case of "retraining men's bad behavior".

With the emergence of the Political Correctness movement this is going to make a lot of people angry - as I have learned on other subjects that violated the tenants of political correctness.

Anyway I will refrain from elaborating on this further in order to limit the venom heading my way on this issue.

Now you've gone a bit tooo far this time ... that is crazy

How do you come up with this stuff ? Eh?

One baby step at a time .... you're asking for too much all at once. .. You're the one who's goina kill us all.

Or may be you're trying to tarnish Wikipedia's reputation for personal vendetta?

 

[Bajo_cero2]

I think it's pretty clear the main reason women go into prostitution is financial.

Guys, you are in a mistake, he is Captaing naive.

I suggest this reading about a report from UN about how trafficking mafia works in Argentina with dominican women with children.

http://www.un.org/wo...-sp.htm#recom19

 

[Jaredberryman]

Guys, you are in a mistake, he is Captaing naive.

I suggest this reading about a report from UN about how trafficking mafia works in Argentina with dominican women with children.

http://www.un.org/wo...-sp.htm#recom19

No Bajo. Don't you know that those women whores just do it to get an iphone? Or maybe they must become prostitutes to fill some sociological sex more that's been programmed into them. How silly of them.

 

[Montauk_Project]

@Joe I don´t want to imply that prostitution is the fault of men, it is the fault of an entire system of thought and belief. I agree with you that there are a lot of instincts at work. But if women were more open to having sex and not asking for anything in return, the demand for prostitution would drop considerably. There is more prostitution in sexually repressed societies.
Women are trained to be prostitutes from a young age. I myself was--I was supposed to get a good education, learn to play tennis, cook well and in return I would get a husband who would pay for the lifestyle my mother thought I should have. We are talking about wall street bankers, not turning tricks on the street corner (the "one client" model of prostitution, or traditional marriage). When I traveled to Cuba I for the first time became the John, as I had more money. This caused me to do serious self examination and question the beliefs I was taught from a young age. It was very painful for me to realize that for my parents my education was just an excuse to get a better john, that I would often go on dates with men for the dinner, make them pay for drinks, or I would dismiss men in a rude manner--all behavior that is considered normal in the modern world.
It took me years of self examination to change my behavior and to become a responsable actor. I can understand that many women would not want to do this, and many men like "buying" women.
But liberation is never easy.

 

[Ceviche]

Men "buy" women, not to stay with them...but to leave when asked! ahem! ahem!

 

[khairyexpat]

@Montuak ... How rich ... riveting ... powerful ... eloquent .. frank ... one can be?

 

[French jurist]

1950's song about hookers (subtitled). Kind of agree with it.

 

[Joe]

The concept that the difference in male and female behavior is dictated primarily by societal influences, child rearing, etc. does not hold up under scientific or anthropological examination. The case of prostitution is closely related to that of promiscuity which was discussed here previously. Many people want to believe that men's proclivity to promiscuity is simply a bad habit. Again this is not backed up by science or anthropological studies.

Nearly 1,000 of the 1,154 past or present human societies ever studied--and these include most of the world's "hunter-gatherer" societies--have permitted a man to have more than one wife. These are the closest things we have to living examples of the "ancestral environment"--the social context of human evolution, the setting for which the mind was designed. The presumption is that people reared in such societies--the !Kung San of southern Africa, the Ache of Paraguay, the 19th century Eskimo--behave fairly "naturally." More so, at least, than people reared amid influences that weren't part of the ancestral environment: TVs, cars, jail time for bigamy.
There are vanishingly few anthropological examples of systematic female polygamy, or polyandry--women monopolizing sexual access to more than one man at once. So, while both sexes are prone under the right circumstances to infidelity, men seem much more deeply inclined to actually acquire a second or third mate--to keep a harem.
They are also more inclined toward the casual fling. Men are less finicky about sex partners. Prostitution--sex with someone you don't know and don't care to know--is a service sought overwhelmingly by males the world round. And almost all pornography that relies sheerly on visual stimulation--images of anonymous people, spiritless flesh--is consumed by males.

Most of the cultures studied, which were formally called "primitive cultures" had ZERO influence by western or other societies. They evolved in isolation.

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[background=rgb(245, 245, 233)]Humans and chimps share a surprising 98.8 percent of their DNA. [/background]

A study conducted by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and published online in the Public Library of Science, found support for the meat-for-sex behaviour hypothesis, according to which, in early human societies the best male hunters had the maximum number of sexual partners. Researchers observed chimpanzees in theTaï National Park and concluded that a form of prostitution exists among the chimpanzees in which females offer sex to males in exchange for meat. According to Cristina Gomes of the Institute, the study "strongly suggests that wild chimpanzees exchange meat for sex, and do so on a long-term basis".[sup][6][/sup]

I was trained at a scientist. I have to look at the actual facts and the actual behaviors - not what I or someone else wants to believe - no matter how fervently.

I fervently wish that humans would stop going to war with each other. It's idiotic. But unfortunately there is no prospect of that behavior changing. I remember when I was a kid and I liked to watch war movies with my brothers. My mother invariable said "how idiotic these wars". Which I didn't understand - it was a cool movie. Now I watch a war movie and even if I enjoy it, I can't help thinking "How idiotic these wars!"

http://youtu.be/mM6OIlreneA