Would you support your son/daughter child becoming a prostitute?

fizzypish wrote: »

Its probably a bit late to be "supporting" them now if they are considering the sex industry as a viable option. You already ****ed up somewhere along the way.....

Not necessarily. Not everyone who chooses that career path does so because they are some how damaged or desperate. Some people do it solely because they _want_ to.

Any child of mine who wants to do it will have my acceptance and support. Any child of mine who is getting into it for reasons or desperation or coercion or anything which means they are doing it against their choice and will - will get the relevant kind of support from me for that too.

It is not up to a parent to choose or veto a career for their children. It is up to a parent to ensure children have all the education - skills - and emotional support to make those choices for themselves.

fizzypish wrote: »

I mentioned it initially but you are right. Some in the industry have their heads screwed on but I find it hard to believe that is the majority.

I have no idea what the figures are on that to be honest. And the variety of people in sex work makes it hard to even guess at. Not everyone is a career sex worker for example. There are also a number of people who only do it for a short period to do things like - to take examples from girls I have known personally - subsidise a college education.

But I would not be surprised at there being a large number of people who do it purely because they want to. Look at a porn site like newbie nudes for example.

There you have large quantities of people making porn and sexual content - hard and soft core - entirely for free. Merely for the pleasure and fun of it.

It is not a massive leap to suggest that such people might occasionally say "Ohhh I can enjoy this - and make money doing it too????"

fizzypish wrote: »

Your adult child decides to go into sex work. I'm assuming you'd sit down to look through all the options and encourage another decision rather than an immediate big hug and "I support you honey".

I would never second guess anyone - even my own children - going into such a career. I would want to know nothing more that A) are they doing this of their own choice and volition and are they fully informed on the pros and cons of such a career path.

If the answer to both of those questions turns out to be yes - then that is where my role as a parent ends for the time being until something else changes.

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

Even if prostitution was fully decriminalize and regulated I still wouldn't want my child to be a prostitute

Oh nor would I. What we _want_ for our children is a different question to what the OP was asking in the thread title and the closure of his OP.

There are any number of careers I do not _want_ for my children. I would not like them being a career toilet cleaner for example - or one of those people who goes into people's houses to reposses their house or furniture because they could not meet their bills. Or one of the people who puts parking tickets on cars. And so on - and so on.

What we want and hope for our children is one thing. What they choose for themselves is another - and I think as parents it is not our role to choose or veto a career for our children - but to merely ensure as best we can that they are equipped to make that decision for themselves. Be that decision anything from mad scientist down to sex worker down to politician