I didn't keep track of who complained about what. I don't have any problem with legalization and regulation (and taxation) of sex work. That's a great idea. I don't, however, think that either the simple act of putting women in charge will magically make everything better OR that the act of regulating it SHOULD necessarily automatically mean women are put in charge of it. I am against "quotas" of whatever sort. If a woman qualifies for a sex-management job, and is a better candidate than anyone else regardless of gender, then she should get it; same for a man.
As a separate issue, I don't think the regulation *should* take the competition out of the job. You may be right that it was only ex-strippers/hookers complaining about that part; I'm not going to re-read it to check. But either way, competition is a part of almost any job, and saying it's the male-sexist pigs causing the competition is crap. Models compete for the best jobs by looking better than their competition. MALE models, too! It's a part of the job description that you have to be hot. For a stripper, that definition is extended to "you have to be sexy", and since sexy varies from person to person the stripper has to be willing to accomodate whatever definition her (or his) client follows, or else turn down the client. The things that male strippers do are often FAR more explicit than acts performed by female strippers. There are a lot of non-sexual jobs that pay really well that nobody likes, and yet do anyway just for the money. Complaining about it doesn't make the job "wrong" so much as just wrong for that specific person. And taking the competition out of the job doesn't even make sense.
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Date: 2005-07-29 07:14 pm (UTC)As a separate issue, I don't think the regulation *should* take the competition out of the job. You may be right that it was only ex-strippers/hookers complaining about that part; I'm not going to re-read it to check. But either way, competition is a part of almost any job, and saying it's the male-sexist pigs causing the competition is crap. Models compete for the best jobs by looking better than their competition. MALE models, too! It's a part of the job description that you have to be hot. For a stripper, that definition is extended to "you have to be sexy", and since sexy varies from person to person the stripper has to be willing to accomodate whatever definition her (or his) client follows, or else turn down the client. The things that male strippers do are often FAR more explicit than acts performed by female strippers. There are a lot of non-sexual jobs that pay really well that nobody likes, and yet do anyway just for the money. Complaining about it doesn't make the job "wrong" so much as just wrong for that specific person. And taking the competition out of the job doesn't even make sense.