The Worlds Oldest Profession..., What do you think? Options

Ok this thread has the potential to ignite a forrest fire so, aside from personal opinions, lets try to keep our tongues behind our teeth if somebody says something that seems sexist or just sounds bad. The purpose of this thread is to find out what viewers think about prostitution, which includes both males and females.

This topic actually came to me, in of all places, getting plastered at a bar. A few buddies and I got to talking about sexist laws (who knows how it got started, probably the 3rd shot of whiskey after the second pitcher of beer).

Our *general* concensous was that there are laws that are sexist.

But being ever myself I had to point out conflicting views on, of course, one of the big issues - abortion - now the reason I brought abortion up in this thread isn't to discuss abortion. The reason is that one of the big reasons some women are pro choice is because they believe they should have the right to do with their body as they will and that the government has no right to dictate what women can do to their bodies.

So this idea of having the right to choose what one does with their body brought up the topic of prostitution, aka the world's oldest profession.

Any takers?

This post has been edited by Acid09: Dec 5 2006, 05:17 PM

1st -- Farming
2nd -- Killing
3rd -- Prostitution

Domestication probably came before actual "prostitution". But imagine if you were a cromagnon man with a daughter and the only way you could feed your clan was to barter with the local neanderthals by letting them have sex with your daughter for food - essentially pimping out your own daughter. Just one random senario. Crude sure. But I'd bet there're worse ones possible. People do desprate things in desperate situations.