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JDawg said:
No, it isn't. And why the female-centric view on this? Are there no male prostitutes? Male pornstars?
Where's the gynocentric view on this?
The reason prostitution isn't the same thing as pornography? There are many. First, adult film stars are routinely tested for STDs. Second, they are both professionals, and both paid for their services. And technically, the service offered by a porn star is not the other person, but to the studio he or she works for; whereas the prostitute is offering sexual stimulation.
Only one of those differences is relevant. After all, prostitutes in legal brothels are routinely tested, too. The only substantial difference between the two industries is that your money pays the producer (analogously a pimp) to have the porn star (analogously the prostitute) have sex with someone else; the prostitute is paid to have sex with you.
Beyond this, the essentials of the job are the same; from the prostitute or porn star's point of view, it generally doesn't matter who they are having sex with.
Also, you have an interesting argument pattern. Thesis, support, contradiction, support, conclusion. Most people, I admit, routinely leave out the part where they contradict their thesis.
Saying they are the same is an archaic view on the subject, and anyone who prescribes to it should be ashamed of themselves.
It depends on how similar you intend to describe them. They are,
essentially, the same. The differences that make pornography effectively legal are small, technical details of the kind a lawyer is paid to figure out. Namely, pornography can, in certain contexts, be called "art". For instance, here really isn't much of a First Amendment issue with basic prostitution.
In the end, though, they
are both fucking for money.
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Challenger78 said:
Maybe because prostitution isn't taxable ?
The differences, as I noted in the prior section, are small. Namely it has to do with who the prostitute is paid to fuck, or, from the consumer's point of view, what you're actually putting down money for. Beyond that, prosecutors are reluctant to lose a First Amendment case about pornography, so they only bust egregious violators, and usually for other reasons. Prostitution, on such occasions, is a prosecutor's tax evasion to the pornographer's Al Capone.
