There is an important point you should consider here, if a kid went there, they would just see a place where women are dancing naked and a bunch of men around; that’s it. Kids judge things by face value because they have no prior knowledge. There is something important about this way of assessing reality that we should learn from them, to see beyond our biases and ideologies.
To say that a strip club is a ‘slaughterhouse’ of young women is to presuppose a misconception that isn’t there. Under proper regulations, they wouldn’t be more ‘forced’ to work there than a McDonald’s employee would be ‘forced’ to work at McDonald’s. Some of those women love what they do and their work should be valued and respected. If some don’t quite enjoy it, a society that embraces sex as part of life and values the importance of sexual work would impose regulations to protect them.
lath@piefed.social 2 days ago
I’m sure there’s plenty of important points not being considered here as we each have a goal in mind and tend to ignore what doesn’t push it along.
For example, you speak of proper regulations as if they already are the rule instead of the exception.
Our imagination can run wild as much as it wants, while reality remains fixed beyond these written words. And it isn’t optimistic in whichever direction it looks to follow.
Can things still be changed? Yes, but it’s highly unlikely. The fight happens beyond these tiny walls where better people than you and I make worse mistakes than we can imagine. Because theirs are grounded in reality and affect more than simple thoughts.