So these grown adults have no agency? You speak of them as if they aren’t responsible for their activity.
Male performers don’t enter it for easy money and to screw many women? The producers don’t make it for huge profit margins? No woman does it because she wants quick money or likes being a sex object?
I’m sure plenty of these people had dysfunctional families, but they are responsible for what they do on purpose.
Actually many people are the way they are not because of their parents but because they are like their parents. My dad was negligent in parenting and vice prone. And although this certainly affected me, it made me all the more set on being a responsible, highly involved parent. My brother? He is vice prone, like my dad was, because he is like what my dad was. And he is responsible for what he does, as am I, despite bad fathering. Same parents, different inclinations inherited.
The only male sex worker I know is a guy who worked out at my gym years ago. I think he sex trafficked himself onto the Magic Mike nationwide tubesteak tour for the money, not the middle aged accountants who feel him up at bachelorette parties.
Who knows though? It looks like he’s having some fun being exploited.
I should add to my last post that although bad parenting can definitely lead to bad life outcomes (as I’ve written about the social pathologies that are linked with this) there does come a time when an adults have to accept bad things that happened to them and cut the shit.
When a woman who has “daddy issues” continues into adulthood doing dumb and dangerous things it’s on her at that point. A pass can perhaps be given for when she didn’t have the intellect and introspection developed yet at a very young age.
This one sure seems like she have always wanted to be a performer from a very young age.
She doesn’t seem like she had a difficult upbringing (one can never say for sure) but she doesn’t seem like the brightest bulb either.
I watched the first few minutes. She did that by her own volition. She was not trafficked, as who know how many are not.
However this doesn’t discount cases of felony assault, coercion, and trafficking, all of which occur in the “industry”. Spreading HIV has occurred. @darnell_becker
I don’t understand the point of government and a legal system if there is no moral framework.
This doesn’t mean I want a suffocating government interfering with all important matters. That sort of system attracts some of the meanest people.
There are matters of conduct that don’t require government. I only want a government taking care of matters that harm society at large. That’s what our current government fails to do.
I also don’t want to get jammed up with morality to the point of being ridiculous and neurotic.
Do you ever think some people aren’t willing to make the necessary sacrifices for what they want in terms of society? Or maybe they don’t care as much as they say they do?
It’s so weird to think about honestly. I could complain about this and that, yet what have I done so far to get to where I want?
It’s like if I were to complain about homelessness, but not take the time out of my day in my life to help homeless people.
In terms of self reflection, it’s really mind boggling. Makes me tend to think twice before complaining about something tbh (sometimes).
Those are good questions. I don’t think such enormous burdens should be on the common people. Regarding your example of homelessness, such a problem is to be dealt with institutions that should have never created a situation that lead to the homelessness crisis we see now. When homeless people and drug users are loitering and doing drugs in public spaces, complaints from people using these same spaces are perfectly legitimate considering that is an unsafe and frightening situation. And the onus is not on them to fix it. They didn’t create this issue and it is they who are being put upon. The onus is on institutions who should have never created this situation
Well yes, because there are plenty of things people can do to help those in need.
In some cases that is plausible. In others it isn’t, as described above. My complaints are about matters others and I cannot fix. School shootings and mass shootings are examples of this and are now regular occurrences, like today for example. Perhaps that’s a topic some would like to discuss in this or the other thread dealing with America’s degeneration.
For some time I wanted to start a thread titled “Theories for the Causes of Mass and School Shootings in America”.
@tlgains I’m taking your questions as compliments because I assume the reason for them is you are interested in what I have to say.
I don’t think I’m a particularly wise person. I am just a guy who accumulated a lot of shit in his head from years of experience, observation, and reading and listening a ton of content.
@BrickHead You and I are about the same age and in my opinion we haven’t accumulated enough time on the planet to self-declare ourselves as “wise men”. We’re still ordinary men now in our fifth decade on the planet.
@tlgains You are becoming a more thoughtful person about serious topics over the last few years. Keep it up.
That doesn’t mean you should see things the same way I do, or that Brick does, or like anyone does. It does mean that you’re a lot less of a dumbass than you were a few years ago, which means you are out-performing your peers when it comes to escaping the chains of adolescent ignorance and arrogance.
I appreciate the remark. I’ve been working on following my advice lately, too. I’m even back underneath the barbell and not pushing the strength envelope at all, just trying to move well and stimulate.
