Comments on: Threadbare: Clothes, Sex & Trafficking (2016)

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By: Kagehi

Kagehi — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:46:23 +0000

Wish they allowed it to be that simple, but you have those who would argue that how someone dresses is sufficient to make them somehow exploited (even when they are choosing the clothing themselves), and will stand by that view regardless of whether the person is 50, or 15, and… far, far, more people would argue that you are not really, “selling you body”, by their strict definition unless you strip naked, or, to an even greater extreme, actually involve sex somehow in the transaction. Like most moral issues, people like to think they are being nuanced by setting arbitrary standards, then ignoring the agency of the people involved, by insisting that any and all cases, no matter the age of the participants, is exploitative, in some case (which may be so, but.. so is every job. Its about how, and to what extent this is happening, and whether or not they are being robbed of choices.), or, alternatively, some similarly arbitrary case “doesn’t count”. So.. Of course most people don’t define modelling as exploiting teens, from which they need to be saved – it doesn’t involve porn or sex, so it can’t be “wrong” to treat them like interchangeable furniture, any more than it is to do the same to someone working for any other business.

By: Amanda Brooks

Amanda Brooks — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 11:54:33 +0000

I’ve been wanting to read this book for a while and I’m glad it’s as good as I thought it would be. (Though I will buy an ebook for my ipad so I can enlarge until I can actually see it. Thanks for the warning.)

After reading “Model” by Michael Gross in college, I have always thought modeling was essentially high-end prostitution, with the added “benefit” of allowing teens to be legal victims of predators. I’ve yet to discover anything since that disproves this notion and I still wonder why no one tries to protect teen models in any way, but go apeshit over teen and adult sex workers (including and especially those who are working of their own volition). I’m so very glad this book looks directly at the modeling industry without any glamorizing of it.

A woman selling her body is a woman selling her body, right antis???

By: Kagehi

Kagehi — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 12:48:15 +0000

Makes me wonder… When you follow the money like this, you inevitably find gullible people, who think they are doing right for moral reasons, being conned by those who profit from the cause. Sometimes the profit makers even pretend to be the pious. So.. with the drug war a failure… one is left wondering how much of the new trafficking war is about someone, someplace, even when the garment industry isn’t included, is making money off of all the arrests. For example, since private jails still exist, even if they are now being very, very closely looked at, and even the government is calling to end them, it makes “economic sense” for these people to promote the false idea that they are “saving” people, by trading one prostitute, which they may not be able to keep in jail, for a revolving door of dozens of “traffickers”, i.e. clients. After all, the ones making money off it are almost certainly not so naive as to believe it will just stop, or become less common, the way the well meaning, but badly deluded, “moralists” are convinced is possible.