by JustaLittleUnwell » Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:16 pm
I\'m just thinking aloud on what would be the consequences of this \'legalizing\'...
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Prostitution would become corporatised with the Tatas, Birlas and Ambanis vying for their marketshare. Designations like Trainee Pimp, Sr. Pimp, Solicitation Manager, etc. would become the order of the day. \'Customer Service Specialist\' would become an apt title for a sex worker. These jobs may become sought after (mein banoongi sex worker???) and professional colleges who wouldn\'t want to be left behind would offer \'crash\' courses so that aspiring candidates can compete effectively for these well-paying jobs. It would become an \'equal-opportunity\' industry, i.e. there would be as many men as there are women and vice versa. Last but not the least, customers would get to enjoy the benefits of loyalty programs (like you have frequent flyers), early bird incentives, happy hours, etc.
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Sounds a bit extreme - but just rewind a couple of decades when modelling and fashion shows were considered taboo. Gradually, they gained respectability and today we get visuals of bikini clad women (and their male counterparts) walking the ramp routinely, streaming right into your living rooms. No one even raises an eyebrow as we have come to accept it as a part of our daily lives. And we have our esteemed corporates vying to sponsor these shows, as they result in greater brand recall or whatever industry jargon they use to describe it. Suppose prostitution also gets elevated in terms of acceptance like modelling/fashion did. Would that be a step in the right direction for our future generations?
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I\'m afraid legalizing would offer it a stamp of acceptance, following which it would no longer be wrong to be a sex worker or a customer of \'sexual services\' (as it could probably be called). And all the fears I expressed above may come true!
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