73 thoughts on “I’ve been thinking about…”

  1. I was viciously libeled then banned for life from another blog for pointing out that prostitution is legal in both Europe and the United States. Well that is to say in a small section of Nevada as far as in the US of A. In Europe it is legal in Germany for one.

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  2. In Thailand there is a form of prostitution that seems to benefit all concerned. It is usually a 30-something Thai single mother who shares a living arrangement with a retired man who is typically but not always a product of The Great Patriarchy.

    He pays her a monthly salary and pays 100% of her expenses. If her children do not live with them, he will generally pay her travel expenses so that she can visit them several times each month.

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  3. I am thinking that prostitution should be legalized. Pimping and ‘madaming’ should, on the other hand, both be illegal and the penalties should be severe – especially when children and/ or trafficking is involved.

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    1. Interested in the thought-process that more-widely legalizes the first of these; and whole-heartedly agree with the second…Where would pornography [digital and otherwise] fit in? How is addiction dealt with? Not dismissing out of hand, truly wondering…

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      2. Yes, please, what leads you to the legalization choice? I’ve not seen the question dealt with cogently – if at all – by someone in a more conservative frame of mind, let alone one whose thoughts I value as much as yours.

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      3. Maybe we can handle porn on another thread. I think it deserves its very own place in Hell.
        I suspect addiction is better handled (so to speak) when it is readily available and affordable – even for the high school losers. Yes looking at you guys on RB. How’s it hangen’ dudes. Miss me yet?

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      5. But, oh yeah: Isn’t that now the “Sock drawer”? As Gilda Radner’s “Emily Litella” used to say: “Never mind…”.

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  4. Which came first: Maybe “Creator/mother/father”? Members of the second-oldest have to come from somewhere…Biblically, maybe, prostitutes are first (Rahab), followed by Joshua and Caleb, who reconnoitered the Promised Land (spies)? (Acting is up there on the list, too…Esau masquerading as Jacob.) Anyway, there’s a start…(Don’t the Netherlands recognize/regulate sex workers, too?)

    Ronaldus Maximus is purported to have quipped: “Someone once said that politics is the second-oldest profession. I’m beginning to think it bears resemblance to the first.”

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  6. Feminists are against legalizing prostitution because they already cannot compete.
    They also couldn’t care less about lower class women, especially the oppressed, down trodden, and impoverished single moms in 3d world countries.

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  7. …and you just gotta love the folks from the west who come to southeast Asia on a 2 week vacation and become experts on the culture and economy here. They really very much look down on the working ladies in massage parlors where one cannot purchase a massage.

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  10. I am a member of the Santiburi Country Club, Chiang Rai. It is designed by a famous American, Robert Trent Jones II, and is rank the 10th best golf course in Thailand. Even there some of the caddies offer themselves up as a post round treat. I suppose if they don’t like their player then they do not do that.

    I suspect those of us in the West just have to be utterly amazed and appalled by such sinful goings on.

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  11. Got it, ST…If a need exists, better to fulfill it in a way that – hopefully – both serves and protects all involved. Also, takes it off the street and out of the shadows where exploitation and danger hide, yes? And, if something is legal, when you decide you don’t want to be part of it anymore, no big deal to stop. I get it, I think…Thank you for clarifying this for me. (I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to separate biology from commitment/covenant, but that’s on me.). Mr. Seger does cut to the chase, for sure. -smile-

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      1. Double-got-it, hermano…No doubt. But, a lot of the objections from the ‘conservative’ side of things involve even the *thought* of decoupling one from the other…

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      2. Trying and failing to nest properly. The conservatives should not think so much about thought control. They should also visit Realzville, BFE sometime.

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  15. Could you see legalization happening more widely here anytime soon? Or are the Puritans (both old-school and new-rules) looming over the whole idea?

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      1. Let’s see how legalization of marijuana does, as a test case, as fundraising for local/state, maybe even federal government, first?

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    1. How do they differ – aside from the obvious way(s)? Btw, what did you call me, above? I’ve seen ‘Kuhn’ before, but not ‘krap’…Enlighten me, please?

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      2. Ah, I knew that it could be appended to a statement…I also knew it wasn’t an epithet: Even though there’s no equivalent, is it sort of close to ma’am?

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      4. Got it, hinging on the level of personal investment/involvement that goes into the decision/choice to engage in the activity; and the inclusion of another person’s decisions in the process; truly levels away in complexity.

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  18. I meant in my mind/ thoughts. FYI: It should not be a physical place. We may be having bad comms. I was asking you to take me somewhere into my mind – as in to try to ‘bend’ it.

    How copy – over?

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      1. Not easy but doable. I think I can help in the transition but perhaps for a nominal fee. The last time I hosted a Western female for free she told me that I was a terrible host. I would hate for you to have a similar impression.

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      2. I have one more option here that I should try first…A new home health agency is opening in the area. A local branch of a national franchise, from what I’ve gathered so far; I’ll know more tomorrow morning, when my sister comes in…(Btw, you could count on me *not* to be ungracious, should the situation arise.)

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      1. Well, it sort of depends on whether you want to *think* about something in a new way; or to rest from something, or to stop thinking entirely…I must not be clear on what “stretching” is for you…Maybe I’m thinking too tightly, myself….Patience, amigo, I’ll get there….

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  27. I’ll admit to it, more than once – not there right now, myself….Is it Job’s anger, puzzlement, or are you ready to do battle? (I always get teed off at his three friends: they’re okay during that week that they don’t approach him, for sheer grief – great work, dudes! When they start lipping off to him – especially that twerp, Eliphaz – I wanna deck them all.

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  29. According to this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_prostitution#United_States, St Augustine was in favor of keeping prostitution legal; many leaders of the Catholic Church way back when supported legal prostitution because they viewed it as less bad than rape, sodomy, and masturbation. Some might think that to say that visiting a prostitute is less bad than masturbating is a ridiculous assertion, but is it? If I had to choose between living in a society where lots of men visit prostitutes or living in a society where lots of men constantly watch porn and masturbate (sound familiar?) I would go with the prostitutes every time. For lots of reasons, for all reasons, for every reason.

    The early Church fathers severely discouraged masturbation and viewed prostitution as a necessary evil; we now live in a society which strongly discourages prostitution and views masturbation as no problem, and as long as it doesn’t happen all that often, it isn’t a problem, but especially since the Internet came along, we all live with the image in our minds of these guys in their parent’s basements who spend an inordinate amount of time looking at porn and masturbating. If it’s just one guy doing it once in a while, that is one thing, but as it stands right now, we have a problem. The early Church fathers had it right, and we have it wrong.

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