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Originally Posted by anticipation
its just as easy to argue that the hypersexualization of lolitas and young women through porn spurs just as many rapes as it prevents.
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That's actually a very good point.
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Originally Posted by 216
Most people would probably consider sex workers to have some of the lowest services to society. Helping a fat, bald 45 year old get off in his computer room really isn't seen as beneficial to anyone except for one individual for a few minutes.
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I think thinking of this "service to society" thing in extreme cases like rape or pedophilia is way too extreme and you can argue both sides of the coin and come out with **** all. But at the lower level, like just visiting or a prostitue, or even just watching porn can be considered a service surely.
Has visiting a prostitute
saved a marriage? Could be. I bet watching porn definitely has, there are probably loads of blokes who want more or something different than their wife will give them, or visa versa, so they turn to porn. Now while I don't condone those actions I find it hard to come down one way or the other how beneficial it is. If a man watches porn and this stops him having an affair that would break a marriage and scar his kids etc-is that not a benefit to society? Immoral perhaps, but when does morality on its own standing further society?
Anyway, they provide more of a service to society than say football agents (or agents in general), call centre operators or the infamous "no armani, no punani" toilet crowd. Those people actually detract from my life as a human being in a way no sex worker ever has, simply because they don't inconvenience me on a daily basis.