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From: davek@masscomp.UUCP (David Kearney)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Sex by numbers (really, prostitution)
Message-ID: <671@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 11:05:51 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 24 11:05:51 1985
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Reply-To: davek@masscomp.UUCP (David Kearney)
Organization: Masscomp - Westford, MA
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Summary: 

>	Sorry, I can't resist.  I'm against prostitution because it:
>
>	1)  is illegal
>		Laws are set down for the good of the society, yes?
>		And, although we have overturned laws (e.g. slavery)
>		when our society has "seen the light", prostitution
>		remains illegal.... hmmmmmm

Is it illegal everywhere?   In certain parts of Nevada, prostitution
is legal.  I am sure there are other places in this country and other
countries that the oldest profession is still legal.  Who is right?
Do you begin to profess what is right for me?  Are you declaring that
your limited puritan ethics can even begin to tell me what I can and 
cannot do as long as it effects no one but myself?

>	2)  is morally wrong
>		It's immoral because it is psychologically degrading and
>		against biblical (gasp!) teachings.  Is there a religion
>		that supports prostituion?
>

MORALLY WRONG??!?  By whose standards??  Yours?  Are you suggesting that
your twisted sense of right and wrong be the same as my twisted sense
of what is right and what is wrong?  Obviously, the evil spacegod WOTAN has
not let you in on His infinite "Wizdum".  My bible is NOT yours.  In the
Church of "Bob", as the esteemed Archbishop of Chelmsford previously said,
Prostitution is fine so long as the price is right.

I am repulsed by the idea that you even begin to profess moral standards
to me, and to other potential followers of "Bob".   

>	One note on the "psychologically degrading" comment.  Some claim
>that some people can function normally and lead happy and healthy lives
>in situations where others fail.  Sorry, humans is humans, I respectfully
>disagree with any form of the above claim.
>

I'd like to see hard evidence stating the psychological degradation due to
such recreational activities.  I think you would be hard pressed to produce
such documentation.  So I will make the following statement, which is
BOTH TRUE AND FALSE AT THE SAME TIME:

	Prostitution promotes mental healthiness due to a decrease in 
	sexual anxieties caused by marital obligations and society's moral
	rules.

>
>				Gypsy  ihnp4!ihuxe!hoff

Dave Kearney

It's so lonely on my saddle since my horse died!