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Sex for Personal Gain

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,376 ✭✭✭metrovelvet


    If I remember correctly, Aquinas argued for the preservation of prostitution so as to prevent the decent women from being raped. I dont think it was that he thought the prostitutes would be raped but without the side outlet available to men, men would start raping decent women.

    The church have historically had an ambivalent attitude towards prostitites, and were also if I remember correctly one of the main reasons purgatory was invented.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    If I remember correctly, Aquinas argued for the preservation of prostitution so as to prevent the decent women from being raped. I dont think it was that he thought the prostitutes would be raped but without the side outlet available to men, men would start raping decent women.

    Practically it is better if the State can minimise the prostitution industry as small as possible using police force as they have in Sweden than maximising it out allowing for more people to be in potential danger of being exploited.

    N.B In Sweden it is illegal to seek out prostitution. So the crime falls on the one seeking it rather than the prostitute.

    I like Aquinas' thoughts on some things. However I don't believe the Church Fathers are infallible. I regard him as a philosopher.
    The church have historically had an ambivalent attitude towards prostitites, and were also if I remember correctly one of the main reasons purgatory was invented.

    I personally don't believe in purgatory.

    Carrying on though. I think that it is good that the Christian community stand up against the harm caused to vulnerable women through prostitution even if there are some who do it out of their own will. There will always be casualties through prostitution, so we're better off without it.

    We're also better off as a society without encouraging the objectification of women as mere sexual objects. They should be appreciated as far more than this.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,349 ✭✭✭nozzferrahhtoo


    Jakkass wrote: »
    We're also better off as a society without encouraging the objectification of women as mere sexual objects. They should be appreciated as far more than this.

    Yes exactly. They should be treated as autonomous people who have control over their own body. People who can enter a career path of THEIR choosing without us wrapping them up in cotton wool telling them what they can or can not do consensually with their own body or career choices, especially when you are yet to show a single argument against prostitution in and of itself except a hand full of guilt by association fallacies.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 911 ✭✭✭994


    Jakkass wrote: »
    N.B In Sweden it is illegal to seek out prostitution. So the crime falls on the one seeking it rather than the prostitute.

    Is that really just? So a woman can sell an illegal service with impunity, but a man who buys that illegal service can be jailed?


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