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[rozk]

In a puff piece about Sheila Jeffreys' new book here , Bindel cheerfully accepts Jeffreys' claim that heterosexual marriage is closely related to prostitution. She also uncritically accepts Jeffreys' claim that 5% of the Netherlands' GDP is prostitution-related; if you read further, it is clear that Jeffreys regards any economic activity in which prostitution has any role as totally implicated. Thus, taxi-drivers, and presumably other forms of transport, move prostitutes and punters around and are so profiting from the sex industry. I'd call this shoddy research, and even shoddier scholarship, but I am hopelessly biased against both women...

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I haven't read enuf of the woman to have an informed opinion

[dmsherwood53.livejournal.com]

But the example you quoted seems almost a parody of economic analysis. By that method i can prove the whole economy is a false mask for hamberger stands. The streets are there to provide a place to put your hamberger stand ;the police are there to make it safe to run a hamberger stand; people have jobs in order to afford hambergers. But I labor the point.

Re: I haven't read enuf of the woman to have an informed opinion

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

But since (some) prostitutes eat (some) hamburgers it's all prostitution.

Superficial

[dmsherwood53.livejournal.com]

But since some RC priests get serviced by Prostitutes AND eat Hamburgers its all part of the Roman catholic's conspiracy to take over the world !!!!!

Re: Superficial

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

But since some roman catholic priests are gay, it's all part of the gay conspiracy to make everything pink!!!!!!!!

I think I'll stop now before the black helicopters come to take me away...

Re: Superficial

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't stop yet! You left out the Mormons. And the Scientologists. And and and.

Re: Superficial

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm .... maybe the black helicopters are being flown by a mormon pilot and a scientologist co-pilot... And as for the ground crew...!

Re: Superficial

[dmsherwood53.livejournal.com]

Too Late your name is already on a death List; you have 3 day to set your affairs in order