'We're tired of being prostitutes'

[The Straight Story]

'We're tired of being prostitutes'

Prostitutes in Catania, Sicily, left a letter on a wall on a street in one of Catania's poorest suburbs, appealing to the city's mayor, Enzo Bianco, to help change their lives.

"We live in this neighbourhood, we voted for you...we want to identify with the world of work, we are tired of being prostitutes."

The letter was pinned to the wall of an apartment block, which houses a brothel in the suburb of San Berillo, the Catania edition of Corriere del Mezzogiorno reported.

The suburb is one of the poorest in Catania, "where prostitution and delinquency co-exist", the newspaper said.

http://www.thelocal.it/20130703/were-tired-of-being-prostitutes

[MrSlayer]

1. I was hoping it was a bunch of congressmen…

But that kind of honesty is so rare in Washington.

[OneGrassRoot]

2. DUzy! n/t

[geckosfeet]

3. Honesty in Washington is rare. But I don't they are tired of it. The money is too good.

[Squinch]

4. But I thought

people only become prostitutes because they like the sex and meeting new people.

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5. Well

the 99% do prostitute their bodies for the 1%, does not always translate into sex though - usually into labor.

Personally, if I could start my own business selling myself for sex to women I probably would.

But yeah, that ain't gonna happen as my only clients would be my right and left hand and they don't pay well....

[Squinch]

6. Right. Because prostitution, in the traditional sense of the word, in the

sense that these women are so desperate to escape, is much easier than working for the man.

I understand you were making a joke, but it was insensitive to what these women go through.

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7. Problem here is

We all trade our bodies/labor.

When it is forced, in any manner - that is wrong.

And forced can be, as some would note, the absence of other choices.

Given choices - if someone wants to do such things, they are using their skills for their own gain (which they should have the right to do).

Absent choices, that is a different matter.

In that our society (not just the US) leaves little choice in the matter at times I get the anger/etc over prostitution. On the other hand, still in the society thing, I think people should be free to do so if that is what benefits them the most.

Ideal situation - where no one needs to but wants to.

Current situation - People need to work and choose that line as it best fits their interests (ie, they make more doing that than other jobs).

Worst situation - forced to as no other choices exist.

It is not all black and white.

[Squinch]

8. While you wrote that, somewhere in the world a prostitute

in the traditional sense, was beaten to a bloody pulp.

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9. Do you think I am fine with that because I believe in choice?

If so, maybe you are just trolling.

[Squinch]

10. I think you are equating difficulties in the labor market with the dangers of prostitution.

I am making the point that, though there are great difficulties in the labor market that need to be addressed, there is no comparison, and that equating them shows insensitivity to the plight of the women making this protest.