It's 1,000 miles X 3,000 miles, that's pretty big, and lots of areas have very large minority populations, though what the minority is, differs greatly from region to region.  So, Hispanic groups, largely from Central America are huge in LA, but in that case, lots of them never crossed the border, the border crossed them.  They were the majority in the City of Angles from the beginning.  Other places like the Midwest, and upper Midwest are very, very, white.  Latino populations in Miami and New York are not Central American, but rather Cuban and from the other Carib islands, and have little in common with the Central American groups sharing Spanish as a language, but not much more. 

Quote from: lisagurl on January 10, 2009, 11:22:01 AMNow prostitution might solve one's immediate problem but in the long run it will destroy the fabric that makes us human.

How, exactly?

And as a feminist I don't require women to make only choices that effect all women in a positive way.  It really is ok for us to just live our lives as best we can.

the long run it will destroy the fabric that makes us human.

Considering it's the 'world's oldest profession' perhaps its just the opposite.

QuoteIt really is ok for us to just live our lives as best we can.

We are not alone on this planet. What we do has an effect on many. We can not just just live our lives, too many others depend on each other. Tell me what would living conditions be without social cooperation.

Quote from: lisagurl on January 10, 2009, 02:29:43 PM

QuoteIt really is ok for us to just live our lives as best we can.

We are not alone on this planet. What we do has an effect on many. We can not just just live our lives, too many others depend on each other. Tell me what would living conditions be without social cooperation.

What does any of that have to do with prostitution?

Isn't prostitution a form of social cooperation?  It's an economic exchange for a good or a service, which is the basis of all economics, which in turn is one of the prime kinds of social cooperation.

QuoteConsidering it's the 'world's oldest profession' perhaps its just the opposite.

The fabric now is in great shape? Prostitution has solved the worlds problems? Look at all the great accomplishments that prostitutes have brought civilization. If all those years of their hard labor, more than any other profession, what do we have to show for it?

QuoteIt's an economic exchange for a good or a service, which is the basis of all economics, which in turn is one of the prime kinds of social cooperation.

Kind of like a mercenary.

Depends on what the desired outcome was.  One person gets the money, the other the service (which in a lot of cases is not exactly what you think it is).  And the fabric of society is not being destroyed by sex, as much as by greed and our general tendency to be dumb all over. 

And its not like a mercenary at all, no one is getting killed.  They are just getting laid. 

QuoteThey are just getting laid

A slow agonizing death.

Things are not as cut and dry as you pretend to see them.  Its a complex deal, with some in a state of bondage and slavery, others who have no other options left standing on the street corner in the rain, and others who use it to enhance their income and life. 

It's not perfect, and I'll agree that a lot of the time its not very good.  However its not the be all and end all of the end times.

Quote from: lisagurl on January 10, 2009, 02:42:24 PM

QuoteThey are just getting laid

A slow agonizing death.

Isnt that slow agonising death called life? and doesnt it happen weather one has sex or not?

Prostitution is as tekla so bluntly puts it. Sex, for money, as long as people want sex, they will want to  buy it when they cannot get it free... Its the cirlcle of life for any desired substance, goods, or service.

Nobody is asking you to sell yourself... just allow people to do what they want, or have to without disaprobing looks from the rest of you....


Isnt it famouslty said, that he who is without sin, should cast the first stone....

So cast away my perfect beings.... cast away.

Quote from: Starbuck on January 10, 2009, 03:54:55 PM

Quote from: lisagurl on January 10, 2009, 02:42:24 PM

QuoteThey are just getting laid

A slow agonizing death.

Isnt that slow agonising death called life? and doesnt it happen weather one has sex or not?

Prostitution is as tekla so bluntly puts it. Sex, for money, as long as people want sex, they will want to  buy it when they cannot get it free... Its the cirlcle of life for any desired substance, goods, or service.

Nobody is asking you to sell yourself... just allow people to do what they want, or have to without disaprobing looks from the rest of you....


Isnt it famouslty said, that he who is without sin, should cast the first stone....

So cast away my perfect beings.... cast away.

WORD!

You don't pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to go away when your done.  As opposed to her hanging out for seven years and taking your house on your way out.

Trust the bloke to take that view

No, trust a guy who knows why rock stars would rather pay the 300 an hour as opposed to taking any babe in the first five rows who wants to have his baby.

Even rockstars fall in love.

Sex and love are not paticularly something that comes in series, more in paralel....

Quote from: Starbuck on January 10, 2009, 04:02:38 PM
Even rockstars fall in love.

Sex and love are not paticularly something that comes in series, more in paralel....

spoken like a lady. 

True that, but oddly enough, they don't fall in love with their fans.  The fall in love with the person who likes them for what they are, rather than what they do.  They are not the guitar, not the song, not the drum drop.  I was talking with a wife recently and I go "I'm heading up to watch some of the show, want to go?"  Her reply, "I hate this ->-bleeped-<-, I trained as a classical player, I get bored with this way too fast."  You don't want someone who is 'into' the music, the music is your job, its not you.

thanks once again for the inside scoop