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So today in class when we were asked to do the questions exercise I was kind of stuck. Well, actually I wasn't stuck at all. I had so many questions to ask, but no answers. Sex work and its ethics has always been a very confusing subject to me. I'm not about to delve into my conservative religious upbringing (again) but I really think it effects my thinking (on everything...).  Someone in class today was asking about morality and how it plays into peoples thinking on this issue. Basically I go in circles in my mind. On the one hand I think that it is degrading and that a woman's (or man's) body is priceless. On the other hand, we can choose whatever we'd like to do with our bodies, and we are free to set our own rules, and if a woman chooses to use it in a certain way she should be entitled. Sex is a big part of life, and a very important one--so should we treat it like any other need? Should we put it on a pedastool?

I guess my official policy on it would have to be a little bit of a mixture of the two. I think that personally sexwork would be degrading to my body and not for me, and I would not encourage any of my friends or loved ones to engage in it. HOwever, I think that it is a woman's (or man's) choice and that, just like anything else, good or bad can result from it.

As much as I criticized Julia (the main woman in "Live Nude Girls Unite") for being hypocritical, I think I probably would react similarly... I would not want my daughter to be involved in sex work and yet would support those who were. I guess we can talk all we want but when it comes down to our own lives and loved ones, it's different.