Get a job in the exciting field of prostitution
School careers officers could suggest prostitution as a line of work for pupils, the Lib Dem conference has heard.
Dennis Parsons, the chairman of Cheltenham Liberal Democrats, floated the idea at a special session on sex work.
The Lib Dem said careers officers are not allowed to suggest prostitution, but added: “Why shouldn’t they?”
Good question. Why also shouldn’t they be allowed to suggest pupils could sell themselves into slavery? Careers officers could be urging pupils to sample the joys of working in garment factories in Bangladesh, or the leather industry in India, or cleaning sewers in Mogadishu, or sweeping the streets in North Korea. There are horrible dangerous jobs everywhere, so why shouldn’t school careers officers be suggesting them to pupils?
During a discussion on how to combat the stigma attached to sex work, Mr Parsons compared prostitution with accountancy.
He said: “The fact that we are asking ‘should we seek to prevent people entering sex work?’ is part of the problem. You wouldn’t ask the question ‘should we prevent people becoming accountants?’ You’d just take it for granted.”
Accountancy, yes. A chicken processing plant, not so much. Some jobs are worse than others, including some that are so bad that no schools officers should be suggesting them to pupils.
Who benefits from encouraging pupils to go into prostitution? Men who want more prostitutes to choose from, mostly.
“We have had a chap suggest that one of the areas we need to be concerned about was families coercing people to go into the sex trade. Well, again, you wouldn’t protest at families urging and coercing people into becoming accountants.”
Yes I would, if the people in question wanted to do something else and had a good chance of doing it.
But more to the point, accountancy and prostitution aren’t comparable. Accountants aren’t forced to do double-anal by men who get their ideas of good sex from porn.
“And even in this room full of liberals we have got a huge cultural problem that we do see sex work as different, and we see it as something a little bit tacky, and not quite nice, and not the sort of thing that we would want our sons and daughters to get involved in.”
Yeah that’s the problem – liberals thinking prostitution is not the best career choice for their daughters.
Who are these mythical parents who would be delighted on hearing that their sons or daughters had decided to go into the exciting field of prostitution?
This is a logical endpoint of the “Sex work is [just] work” philosophy, which is aggressively promoted by the same people who just a year or two ago were using the phrase “enthusiastic consent.”*
* Before they decided that lesbians who won’t sleep with trans women are bigots.
Whoa, let’s just back up there a minute. I have concerns about the stigma attached to sex workers (to use their phrasing), but I have no interest in sugarcoating the ugly truth of prostitution and sex-based slavery. This isn’t some abstract discussion, there are actual people to consider.
You wouldn’t protest at families urging and coercing people into getting paid for having various objects stuffed into their orifices, would you? /s
I begin to believe our modern world has slipped headlong into a parody of itself.
He has resigned, but claims he was “misinterpreted.”
It’s nice to know that public reaction forced him to step down. In online progressive circles, the idea that sex work is just another freely made career choice is so seemingly omnipresent that it can easily look like a mainstream position. But in real life, it apparently hasn’t caught on so widely.