If you're local Target or Walmart started selling something controversial, we'd be likely to direct our ire at the seller, mostly because that's how we'd expect to effect change.
I think there's the same thing with prostitution (which don't forget, includes men selling to men). For the most part, wo…
If you're local Target or Walmart started selling something controversial, we'd be likely to direct our ire at the seller, mostly because that's how we'd expect to effect change.
I think there's the same thing with prostitution (which don't forget, includes men selling to men). For the most part, women put themselves out there and men look to see what's out there. Men don't just offer money (for the most part) to random women to see if they'll have transactional sex.
You could, of course, attempt to control it from either angle. But it's probably easier to change the behavior of the smaller group of sellers than the much larger group of buyers, just like it's easier to pressure Target or Walmart than it is to prevent people from buying what they sell.
You can't say it's all one or the other.
If you're local Target or Walmart started selling something controversial, we'd be likely to direct our ire at the seller, mostly because that's how we'd expect to effect change.
I think there's the same thing with prostitution (which don't forget, includes men selling to men). For the most part, women put themselves out there and men look to see what's out there. Men don't just offer money (for the most part) to random women to see if they'll have transactional sex.
You could, of course, attempt to control it from either angle. But it's probably easier to change the behavior of the smaller group of sellers than the much larger group of buyers, just like it's easier to pressure Target or Walmart than it is to prevent people from buying what they sell.