He would undoubtedly view prostitution as a denigration and enslavement of women, just as he views pornography the same way. He even compared female actresses' consent to appear in pornography to Chinese workers' "consent" to work in a factory that burns down. To me, this is an utterly illegitimate deontological view that he ought to know better than to believe. The dead Chinese factory workers have clearly suffered a far more intense infliction than whatever suffering he imagines is inflicted on American porn stars, and just as he doesn't maintain an absolutist stance against state functions in all circumstances, neither should he maintain an absolutist stance that groups all forms of wage labor together.
American prostitutes in poor areas do not have it easy by any means. But their suffering, (and even more so that of high-paid escorts), is not comparable to that of women locked in dog cages.
I met Noam once.
He didn't strike me as a libertine to be frank. IN fact he struck me as a pretty cold fish emotionally.
So I am not surprised that he'd take a stalinist left view of things sexual.
Now you seem to have missed the mirth I was trying to inject into this somewhat depressing "let's all agree to get outraged" thread.
I'm likely to mock such attempts to forge board unity by posting something that is drop dead obviously outrageous.
Not because I am not outraged, but because I object to people trying to manipulate us into agreeing about something that is so drop dead obviously evil.
I feel the same way about group hugs and drumming when the liberal do it, know what I mean?
I mean who here is likely to come out and say abducting girls and forcing them into slave prostitution is a good thing?
Nobody, right?
So why even bring these outrageous and depressing things to our attention?
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