Is prostitution moral?

govannonfrei (55)in #philosophy • 8 years ago (edited)

[Assumptions:]

A person has the right to own their own body
Sex is intended to create a human life.
Man pays woman for sex.
payment in the form of money

Man has a family (wife and children) then pays a woman for sex.
Effect on man, pleasure
Effect on woman, payment
Effect wife
Wife: Losses value form husband
Child: losses value form father.

(Prostitution immoral)

Man without family pays a woman for sex.
Effect on man, pleasure, loss of money, time.
Effect on woman, payment
Woman doesn't know if man is married or not
(Prostitution immoral)

8 years ago in #philosophy by govannonfrei (55)

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clains (68) 8 years ago

you can do whatever you want so long as it doesn't harm anyone else.
buying sex from someone voluntarily selling it doesn't harm them or anyone else.
selling sex to someone doesn't harm them or anyone else.

You see this clearly if you just imagine one example where prostitution seems okay, then you can infer from that single case that whatever seems bad in the other cases are external to the essence of prostitution itself.

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govannonfrei (55) 8 years ago (edited)

In a free market a seller has a responsibility to their customer, if they are negligent then they will lose.

What responsibility does a prostitute have to her client?
Prostitute that know's who her clent is

She knows her client is married
Does she go ahead with the transaction? Is it moral or immoral?
She might have a decease, that could affect her clients wife?
She might get pregnant?

Her client isn't married
All well?

Prostitute that doesn't know her client

Does the lack of knowledge absolve her from moral responsibility?
She might have a decease, that could affect her client's wife?
She might get pregnant?

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pharesim (74) 8 years ago (edited)

In times of open relationships even a married man may very well be allowed to get his satisfaction somewhere else. So it's not the prostitution that's immoral, but cheating on your partner.

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nenad-ristic (63) 8 years ago

You have a lot of assumptions in your argument, very few of which you have actually mentioned, and even fewer justified.

Of the assumptions that you do make, I would seriously argue about 2, and 3 seems to provide a very limited definition of prostitution.

Also, you are trying to figure out whether something is moral, without actually defining what you mean by moral, and the couple of examples you mention seem extremely cherry picked to justify your conclusion.

Really weak argument there.

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