Here’s the thing, I have been to strip clubs and I have known strippers (In College) and the following conversation is not about the art of Burlesque or Naked Showgirls or people who are in the sex industry of their own choosing. I am referring to the 18 year old girl who is in a dark smoky bar humping a silver pole with three dollar bills in her g-string and a string bikini top covering her newly bought boobs, while five drunk young men hoot and jeer at her feet.
Stripping is an easy way to make money but at 18 one is too immature to make rational decisions about one’s exploitation. These young women might think they have sexual power and prowess over their drooling minions, but likely can’t buy a beer yet and may feel later that they could never run for congress because of their actions. Now being a congresswoman - that's real power! In short practicing, promoting and accepting the objectification of a young adult (male or female) makes prostitution and slave trafficking that much easier and accepted by society as a whole.
Ok call me a prude, I think all strippers should at least be old enough to rent a car on their own before taking the job. (25 years old) It would just make me feel better.
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I understand where you're coming from, I do. Especially after having both worked in politics and had close friends that were in "the sex industry." However, here are some points for consideration just to give ya more to chew on.
We allow the 18 year olds in this country to make a decision that could literally *end* their life. We allow and dare I say encourage them to enlist. They can't very well run for congress 6' under.
There are countries in which prostitution is legal and nude dancing is just as "common" as in the US. However they embrace sexuality as a natural part of life thereby not objectifying women but genuinely regard women who've mastered both the sexual part of their nature with the intellectual part with the utmost respect.
I'm sure we've all run into 40 year olds that act as though they're 12.
Generally by the time someone is 18, IF they're going to ever be in politics they already know it.
I believe what you're talking about is more of a matter of maturity rather than age. Unfortunately there's no way to measure that.
However there are several things that appal me about the specific situation. The first being that nearly all "rent-a-stripper" strippers are much closer to live sex shows than stripping. I'm not speaking of bumping and grinding, I'm speaking of live viewing and even participation in the use of, ahem, devices. At 16 a boy's body is at war with itself and it's new found testosterone level. There's no way you could subject someone that age to something like that without it REALLY impacting not only what he thinks of women but what he thinks of sex in general and that's just dangerous and moronic.
Secondly I'm absolutely positive that the boy's parents didn't check with the other boys parents before subjecting them to the display. To me that NEARLY borders on sexual abuse. Think of the steps we take to make sure that SEX ED isn't taught to our children without our permission. If I were the parent of one of the other boys I would be livid.
sorry for the long post :)
I totally agree with what you are saying. I guess the real problem lies in
1. Either we teach 18 year olds to be responsible adults - FOR REAL. And give them all the rights that adults should have.
2. Or we raise the legal age of everything to at the least 21 including enlisting.
The couple were prosecuted for sexual abuse.
If I wanted to look at 25 year-old boobies, I'd just take my shirt off. When I'm paying my hard-earned money for a stripper, she better be 18 and firm and perky and naive. That's all I'm saying. ;-)
Actually I think the problem probably lies within our culture more than anything. Then again we're still actually a relatively new nation and still developing our own culture. But you're absolutely right about teaching our youth. It really needs to start before they're 18 but that in and of itself is a challenge considering there will ALWAYS be a point in time when peer opinion is more valuable than parent opinion lol.
Blarg I forgot to add that I'm VERY glad they were prosecuted properly. After Judge Edward Cashman's recent ruling you never know what to expect.
I didn't know about Judge Cashmans' recent ruling till you brought it up. Why aren't sex offenders getting help until after they’re out?! That’s ridiculous. What, they need to get raped a few times or rape a few more times in jail before they get rehabilitated? The judge may be making a good point but he’s doing it in a very harmful way. I say let the non-violent drug offenders out and prosecute all violent crimes to the maximum. ARG!
Here's the Cashman story folks
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?s=4325804
Hi,
I agree with Mightymouse Mommy - I don't think this is an problem of age - it is a problem of culture. For example, Jenny, when you say that "In short practicing, promoting and accepting the objectification of a young adult (male or female) makes prostitution and slave trafficking that much easier and accepted by society as a whole." - I don't think it is as easy as relating this stuff to the promoting and acceping of objectification of young adults - it is all adults...all people. The fact that as a society we objectify women in itself is problematic as to its wider implications. I guess what I'm saying is that I do agree with the comments here about young adult strippers, but I also think that objectification of women in and of itself no matter what age is demeaning to all women. I would even go so far to question women and their 'rational decision to strip'. Do we have a society of women making rational choices to be seen as sexual beings for the pleasure of a man - as is widely held in our culture, or do we teach women, and men, from a young age what it means to be a women in our culture?...and thus they live it out?
I would say the later is true. We teach what it is to be a woman. Why else would transvestites feel the need to change everything as opposed to JUST to their physical characteristics. Perhaps it's the way of the animal kingdom that we would objectify the younger and the more vulnerable and weaker as they are better for child bearing.
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