......OK, first off, no one can speak for all of us in the hobby. We are as diverse a group of people as you will EVER find. All walks of life, all socio economic strata, some religious, some not, in fact some are libertines...raises hand. YOU and those you know may fit your description, but me and those I know, don't. And as a matter of simple logic, how are you going to have married men (which many hobbyists are) encourage legal prositution? Look, the fact is that most married men go to great lengths to hide their activities. All you have to do is look at the mulitude of threads on hobby security steps. "Soften the harsh wind without coming out of the closet"? Well, my friend, I am not in the closet, I'm not married, owned my own companies over the years so never feared being "outed" at my job, I have nothing to hide and I am not alone. If you are asking married hobbyists not to bash prostitution that's fine, they shouldn't, that's being a hypocrite. But support it? That's a bridge too far for most. Another issue is that many, including some who are NOT religious fanatics, think that legal prostitution would harm families. For instance, powerful groups who back women's rights do NOT support it, in fact NOW (National Org. of Women) supports programs that help women get out of prostitution. They consider the sex business in general, bad business. This is not to say that what we do won't be legal someday, but the forces arrayed against it are still quite strong. I don't think it will happen in my lifetime. Oh well, let me see, who do I want to have playtime with this week?? Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Posted By: breadmaker
hobbyists stopped living in a closet as enemies of our own lives. It is a cliche how many of the most moralisitic 'family values' characters have private lives quite different from the iron puritanism that they use to batter others.
There are many of us--possibly as many as gays and lesbians-given the recent Gallup poll putting that population at 4%.
And yet how many of us can recall any body speaking with less than strong ardor against "prostitutes" (the legal term for a criminalized profession) and those who solicit etc?
Each of us has the power, without coming out of the closet, to soften the harsh wind and to correct the myths.
If we will not, who will?
