State/Country Age of Consent = Age to Whore out?

[Guest Les]

RE: State/Country Age of Consent

 

>seems to have so issues he needs to work on related to it.

Yes, you are right Kalifornia plus he should remember as he gets older the price goes down... maybe that causes his supposed concern for the under 24 crowd to grow as so many young guys enter his chosen profession.

[Guest newawlens]

RE: Age to Whore out?

 

>Surely the "generic risks" of hooking are obvious to most

>young people: AIDS, STDs, arrest, assault, rape, drug

>addiction, drug overdoses -- these fates are all, in the

>popular imagination, associated with prostitution, and not

>for no reason. I don't think you'll find many young people

>who describe prostitution as a risk-free profession. And

>military service comes with its own subtler risks as well,

>risks to soldiers' physical and mental health that are not

>even easy for experts to grasp, sometimes, until well after

>the point of injury.

 

 

All true, but the risks of hooking you describe are not really the ones this thread seems focused on. Seems to me the psychological risks are the ones Rod has been talking about. And the subtle risks of life in the military are definitely not what the poster I was talking to focused on. He was talking about the risk of getting killed.

 

>I agree with this, but I'm not sure how relevant it is to

>the question of whether it's fair to bring up the military

>service age when discussing the age of consent or what age

>is appropriate as the earliest point to start escorting.

 

Other posters were the first to bring up the issue of military service, not me. Their idea seems to be that military life is riskier for young people than hooking because in the military you can get your head blown off, so it doesn't make sense to say that the 'age of consent' for hooking should be older than the age for military service. I just pointed out that that reflects a very outdated view of the military experience for most young people. The people who use this argument are thinking of the way our military was twenty-five or thirty years ago, not today.

[Chuck50]

RE: Age of Consent = Age to Whore out?

 

JUst wondering if the HORSE is dead yet????

[Guest Thunderbuns]

RE: Age of Consent = Age to Whore out?

 

>JUst wondering if the HORSE is dead yet????

 

Hell no - probably good for another 50 lashes.

 

Thunderbuns

[Guest]

RE: State/Country Age of Consent = Age to

 

I know I'm jumping in a bit late here, but even in countries with lower ages of consent, I don't think will allow escorting before the guy turns 18. In the Netherlands, for example, I think free sex is legal at 15, but paid sex isn't legal until 18. That certainly makes sense to me. How many 16 year-olds can turn down $200? Yet I don't think most 16 year-olds have the maturity to understand the implications of being an escort. Paid sex, is, after all, always "coerced"...

[Flower]

RE: State/Country Age of Consent = Age to

 

>I know I'm jumping in a bit late here, but even in countries

>with lower ages of consent, I don't think will allow

>escorting before the guy turns 18.

 

Better late than never

Very good observation U and highly relevant to this thread. Kinda knocks the wind outta some sails here who were about to fly over to Spain for those 13 yo pre-pube bois.

 

> Paid sex, is, after all, always

>"coerced"...

 

Another good point--especially since I agree with it entirely But I would imagine that young boys having sex with boys their own age either out of experimentation or lust carries an entirely different emotional baggage than sex for hire with older men, making the age of consent really irrelevant to this discussion since it's the morality involved rather than the legality we're talking about.

 

Flower :*

[marc anthony]

RE: State/Country Age of Consent = Age to

 

Flower: Your reaction to this post makes me believe that you didn't read my response to your thread (it is #21).

 

I am wounded to the heart... after all that hard work! :+

[Guest Les]

RE: Age of Consent = Age to Whore out?

 

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[Flower]

RE: State/Country Age of Consent = Age to

 

>Flower: Your reaction to this post makes me believe that

>you didn't read my response to your thread (it is #21).

>

>I am wounded to the heart... after all that hard work! :+

 

Oh NO--please not the crying thing--I just can't handle it :'(

 

Sorry MA -- I did read it right after it was written and remember saying to myself that this guy has the right idea, but didn't comment -- maybe cause I had just been dogged for a "too long of opinion" :+

 

Anyway, I totally agree and didn't mean to ignore you in commenting on Unicorn's statements--can you ever forgive me?

 

I think, afterall, that excercising judgment in these matters, as you point out, is all that can be expected and not sure that we can make hard and fast rules. Very few moral questions can be answered that way.

 

Flower :*

[Guest sdmuscl4hire]

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Pedophilia is simply that. So you took your twisted sick mind and body to a country that has no regard for their children and allows it. The life time of emotional scars you caused will not be lessened.

[FrancoDiSantisxxx]

Another Country

 

1. The age of consent for full sexual impression should not be chronological, it should be based on self-esteem, self-confidence, maturity, and unfortunately must take into account both local custom and practice, based on tradition, history and culture. It is both inappropriate and presumptive to speak to what may or may not be appropriate in a culture that would bind it women's feet, arrange marriages at birth, or not permit a woman to divorce a man, or stone a woman for having a child outside marriage. I personally do not agree with any of these practices but no one has (yet) declared me God In Disguise to pass judgment.

 

2. Sexuality is expression and it should be freely given. Unfortunately, life itself is full of economic factors, influences, inappropriate cultural conditioning (n.b. "youth is ideal" "beauty is the highest good."), and peer pressure, to name just a few, and frankly, life is full of choices which are not genuine free will but between the lesser of a number of evils.

 

I do believe a very young man or woman can sexually express him or herself. Whether they should do so for economic considerations and whether they may or may not suffer consequences for doing so, is another very open question.

 

Finally, as expressed elsewhere, homeless and disadvantaged youths who are forced, for whatever reason, at any age, to do anything is a prime example of a choice between the lesser of a number of evils. Whatever Mr. Hagen motives may be, I certainly continue to applaud his concern in that regard and, as always, I believe that questioning anyone's motives on this board is simply devisive and ineffectually contributes to a decline in the tone, respect, civility and nature of this community's discoure, which I think we ALL value.