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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 2042162" data-attributes="member: 3887">The fact is the examples I sited went to address your statement that women always had a meaningful choice regarding prostitution. No matter where or when they are...They were not intended to address to quesion "is prostitution always wrong?".Which point? That I'm a knuckle-dragging chauvanist for having the temerity to point out that brutal socioeconomic conditions exist that force women into horrible situations? I'd like to think my post demonstrates thats false. Seeing as you didn't weigh in on that point, I'm assuming you agree that it does.You're making the assumption that that's even remotely possible. Why?And this opinion is based on something other than a deeply-felt desire for it to be true?Frankly, the example is meaningless. You do understand that large numbers of people exist in places riven by such poverty, civil disorder, collapse of even the most basic elements of civil society that they don't have the option to work an honest job. You get this, right?'Social conditioning?' Do you honestly think that's a deciding factor in areas where vast numbers of people still starve to death and die of ridiculously-preventable diseases?Choice is a lovely thing. And we're terribly fortunate to live in a society that affords us so damn much of it. But do you honestly think that your being compassionate and pro-woman by assuming that everyone, everywhere has the same?</blockquote>

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