"Summary: I believe that you think the police is that entity you can
always rely on and there is no need to take matters in your own hand,
unfortunately my experience has proven the police not only to be
incompetent, but corrupt and racist as well. I am a mathematician, well
spoken, not aggressive and in no ways in a surrounding that could
justify any of the things I have experienced with the police, so I guess
all I have to say about the police argument is the following:"
The police ARE SUPPOSED to be an entity ALL can depend on. I am aware that unfortunately that functionally it doesn't always work out that way. I marched with BLM, donate money to that cause regularly. So watch who you judge on this issue. Right now, I am busy, on top of my farming, trying to help a friend find and pay for a good discrimination lawyer to take on a major university. I don't expect a damn thing out of it. I do it, because racism makes my stomach turn and because she asked for help. She is a biology student. I never said you were aggressive. So please don't pretend that I did. I have seen white dudes act like assholes to the cops and I was shocked by their restraint. I have seen african americans, calm polite and hands where cops can see them get assaulted. Back in my uni days, I watched a drunk white guy harass some poor african american man and his little girl. I watched that poor man make so much effort to get away from that white guy and to stay calm. Then the white guy invaded his little girl's personal space, he snapped just as I would have. He hit the drunk in the face. Drunk white guy called the police. Police asked me what I saw. I told them I watched a white guy soooo drunk that he punched himself in the face. No one hit him. And when the cop looked at me dubiously I said to him if you keep pressing this I am gonna tell you *I* hit him cuz I should have. That poor guy with the little girl was so scared..... I felt so bad for him. I watched a man have his neck kneeled on. I cried for his family. I cried for him. I saw numerous people of color shot on the news due to no knock warrants and police errors and other assorted cop bullshit. These things are NOT ok. That said, we have a system, one we need to do a hell of a lot more to fix because you are right, there is no equity in it and some folks are getting murdered and otherwise abused and mistreated by the system. But it remains the system we have. Just as often, it gets it right and does the right thing. Not all cops are racists. Though, enough are. We should really incentivize getting them out of the field.
1) I apologize for the statement about "ignorance". It was absolutely unjustified. Mea maxima culpa
2) I never said or framed you as having perceived me as aggressive, but rather was I trying to explain the cases I used as an example and I was giving a general description of my character to emphasis that the police behaviour was in no way justified.
3) The examples I gave were not meant to deviate from the main topic, but rather was I trying to point out that if I ( for example) can not rely on the police - In my case it just so happens that my skin colour is the main reason I do not trust them the slightest bit - I completely understand any prostitute who doesn`t either, as that is a field which is(?) pruned to more stigma prejudice and so on.
4) I misread your last statement. Somehow I read "None should sell their body for money", which is completely different from what you said originally. That being said, I was discussing the topic under the assumption of no exploitation and so on, as our moral compasses in such cases are probably all aligned. I was thinking about prostitution solely as a business concept.
5) In the last two sentences, you state that it is the system we have. Yes it is, but everybody is an individual first before they are a citizen. You are not bound to whatever system we make up. We make up systems for the common good, but when a system is unjust or inhuman, you have to get creative for your individual sake. That being said and talking about prostitution solely as a business concept, I completely understand seeking protection elsewhere.
Yes. You see my opinion, and what SHOULD hold true for all mankind. You are NOT wrong that it doesn't always hold true and something is fucking wrong when it doesn't. I also believe I said something too that you completely ignored about prostitutes hiring a bodyguard. Or operating collectively renting private spaces somewhere and I would assume there would be several bouncers on facility private employ to deal with the kinds of icky who would mistreat women. Which would be a private solution not involving pimps.
As already mentioned above, I wasn`t talking about the things that go wrong in that field of work(?), as that has been sufficiently covered in previous posts and we can all easily agree on those.
6) I might not be familiar with the structure of such a business, but I always assumed the pimp was responsible for providing protection, even if that meant the physical execution thereof is delegated to the, as you put it, Bodyguard. isn`t the pimp the owner of the brothel?
Let's also consider for a moment, that pimps do NOT just "protect" prostitutes. Most often they fail to protect them. More often they force them to work, beat them if they don't or if they don't bring in enough money and pose as much of a threat if not more of one to prostitutes than violent johns. Then, they take almost all the money the prostitute makes, and if she is lucky, he leaves her with some tiny portion of her own earnings.
7) What we are ignoring here is there aren`t only such cases. During my stay in Austria a few years ago, I got to know a guy who regularly had visits from a domina, as he enjoyed being treated like ****. She could choose her customers and earned amounts even I, who is relatively well paid, can only dream of. I know this because after talking with him about this, I watched several interviews with escorts and dominas from different EU countries. I understand that this are not the centre of the Bell curve, but neither are the cases you describe in such countries (In theory). A pimp/bodyguard or however we call them is always nearby, so at least we have the argument of latency. Next I think the client knowing that there is probably a giant somewhere around the corner just waiting to step in, if he misbehaves is more of a deterrent than the police, as he is probably less bound to the law.
I imagine that in countries were prostitution is legalized, you will find less of the cases you described, as the regulatory organs should have measures to control and identify such cases, the same way a restaurant is regularly checked by some regulatory instance. As I already mentioned in a previous post, the city of Bucharest is literally one big brothel. And in Rumania prostitution is illegal. I think you will find way more abuse in Bucharest than for example in Amsterdam ( assumption ). The following could just be the result of a naiv situational awareness, but during my stay in Bucharest I went to a bar (at least it looked like one). Quelle surprise, it was a brothel, as I later found out. After finding out, It didn't bother me, as the prostitutes and the bodyguard weren't bothering me. We had normal conversation and they gave me tips about cities close by and were to go ski. During the entire time, I noticed no tension between the prostitutes and the bodyguard. the were having normal conversations and fooling around even with me being there. it didn't seem like anyone felt pressured to get money out of my pocket. One girl did ask if I wanted her "service", which I deniied and that was the end of it. Tghe tonality of the conversations we had even after refusing didn`t change.
8) Yes there are of course those that do not have a conventional business relationship with the prostitute. There are also those involved in human trafficking, but that is a different topic and has nothing to do with the necessity or lack thereof of a pimp in the business in general.
So, if the cops don't work, then try one of the 2 private solutions mentioned as a method of security for these women. That is totally legit. But saying because cops are n0ot a perfect solution for all every single time nono we must have pimps who beat these women too and take all their money as a mechanism to protect them.... That isn't protection.
I have no way of proving this, but my intuition is that in cities such as beforementioned Amsterdam the cases of abuse you are referring to are a small fraction. I think once one starts to think of this as a business, one might understand that there are probably a bunch of prostitutes, escorts, dominas and whatnot out there that treat it in just the same manner. And as we all know, a happy employee is a more productive employee. I am not disregarding the cases you are talking about, but only arguing in the context of the legality of prostitution, if that makes sense.