Do Kristof's Proposed Policies lead to Murder

Nicholas Kristof, New York Times op ed columnist, misrepresents the facts about prostitution and seeks to oppress women who freely choose to have sex for money by advocating targeting their clients (see "Targeting the Johns in Sex Trade," New York Times FEB. 26, 2014). If Kristof's attempt to have ray ban sunglasses outlet prostitutes' clients prosecuted is successful, women who freely choose to have sex for money won't be able to do so. Even if they freely engage in and enjoy their work as prostitutes, as millions of women (and men) do, they'll have to resort to working in jobs they abhor, for a much smaller wage.

Kristof conflates two entirely different issues by jumping back and forth between a discussion of prostitution in general and remarks about underage prostitutes, with no apparent awareness that critical remarks about underage prostitutes do not necessarily apply to prostitutes in general. Why should we prevent people from hiring prostitutes who are over the age of 21 just because some people hire prostitutes who are 14 years old? By Kristof's reasoning, no one should be allowed to drive because sometimes people who are 14 years old drive. We should also prohibit the sale of tobacco to adults because sometimes people who are 14 years old smoke. Such shoddy reasoning does not belong in the op ed columns of the New York Times.

Kristof also maintains that because sex trafficking sometimes occurs, it follows that all prostitution should be illegal. This argument is quite raidiculous and is based on a complete lack of awareness of the facts about sex trafficking. As the New York Times has reported, "The International Labor Organization estimates that more than three times as many people are trafficked into work like domestic, garment and agricultural labor than those trafficked for sex." "The Price of a Sex Slave Rescue Fantasy," Melissa Grant, New York Times MAY 29, 2014. Thus, by Kristof's absurd argument, no one should ever be allowed to hire a maid, no one should ever be allowed to purchase clothes, and no one should ever be allowed to buy food. After all, to do so would be to support trafficking.

Many millions of women throughout the world have discovered that they can make more money through prostitution in one hour than they can make in one day at a job in a factory or a restaurant. They freely choose to engage in prostitution, and Kristof's attempt to prevent them from doing so is one of the most oppressive and vicious acts imaginable. A person's sex life is entirely private, and whatever two consenting adults choose to do sexually is none of Kristof's business (unless he is one of those two adults). There is really no difference between laws against prostitution and laws against sodomy, homosexuality, adultery, or fornication. Police interference in adults' consensual sex lives is a heinous offence.

Prostitution is, in fact, a great social good which our society should strongly encourage. After all, in May, 2014, Elliot O. Rodger, age 22, a student at Santa Barbara City College, killed six people and wounded 13 others before committing suicide. "Barely 24 hours before the killing spree, Mr.

Now notice that these brutal murders were caused in part by the murderer's sexual frustrations. Just imagine how differently things might have turned out had there been a plentiful supply of low priced, high quality prostitutes available to Elliot O. Rodger. are very expensive, and only upper middle class people, or more likely upper class people, can afford them. Mr. Rodger could probably have hired a desperate crack addict to have sex with him for a lot less than $300/hour, but he might also have found that prospect less appealing than shooting himself. Rodger, who very well might not have killed or shot anyone if he'd had regular access to a low priced, high quality prostitute, as well as to (b) other people who can't find desirable sex partners who aren't inclined to kill anyone as a result of their frustration but who would be a lot happier if they had access to low priced, high quality prostitutes. to work. We should also make visas available so that foreign prostitutes can come here to work. Ideally, if enough prostitutes perhaps half a million or a million were given visas to come here, the price of a high quality prostitute might be brought down to as low as $25/hour, which would probably make her (or his) services available (at least once in a while) even to people with low incomes such as the now deceased college student Elliot O. Rodger. to work.

There are other advantages to be expected if a large number of foreign prostitutes were allowed to work here. Sex with love is better than sex without love, but sex without love is better than no sex at all. Inexpensive sex without love should therefore be made easy to obtain. Notice that a lot of the unhappiness experienced by two people in a romantic relationship is due to mismatched sexual desires. One partner may need more sex than the other. One partner may need sex twice a day, while the other prefers to have sex once a week. Or, one partner may completely cease to have sexual desires for the other, and may find it beneficial to cheap ray ban sunglasses the relationship if the one who still wants to have sex is able to obtain sex from someone else. The relationship, after all, may still be of great value to the couple even if they stop having sex with each other. If a large number of foreign prostitutes were allowed to work here, much of the unhappiness due to mismatched sexual desires could be alleviated. More marriages could be saved. Couples could focus on building strong relationships without mismatched sexual desires constantly getting in the way. There is no sign that Nicholas Kristof is aware of any of these aspects of the prostitution issue. His shallow editorials on this subject show shoddy reasoning, a desire to oppress others, and an ignorance of the link between crime and sexual frustration.

There are additional advantages to be expected if a large number of foreign prostitutes were allowed to work here. Many female college students have reported that they have been sexually assaulted by male students at their colleges, and that the college administrators have done little if anything about this problem. See "Fight Against Sexual Assaults Holds Colleges to Account," New York Times MAY 3, 2014. Evidently, on some campuses, there is a shortage of female college students interested in having sex, leading male college students to sexually assault females. military bases in South Korea and the base that used to exist in Angeles City, Philippines, before a minority of Filipinos succeeded in having the bases in the Philippines closed. (The majority wanted them to stay open.) These bases attract a very large number of local prostitutes, who work in bars nearby or in other businesses or independently. Any soldier at any of these bases could have as much sex as he wanted. college campuses were similarly surrounded by a large number of brothels or bars that had prostitutes, there ray-ban wayfarer would be an outlet for the college men who couldn't find a female college student to have sex with, and the number of male college students sexually assaulting females would certainly go down. is certainly an experiment worth trying. They could be placed in areas where there is an unusually large number of ray ban sale sexual assaults on women, such as certain college campuses where many complaints of such assaults are being made. college campuses are plagued by a shortage of female college students interested in having sex, of course. Sometimes campuses have a shortage of male college students interested in having sex. For example, a female friend of mine who graduated from Oberlin College about 15 years ago told me that there was a huge shortage of heterosexual male college students interested in having sex at Oberlin because so many of the men there, who were studying classical music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, were gay. She said that lesbian activity at Oberlin had been rampant, but only because of the shortage of heterosexual male college students. These women would have preferred having sex with men rather than with women. But good looking male prostitutes brought in from Third World countries to service these women would have been able to do much to alleviate this problem.

Another example of this shortage of men occurs in the Five College Consortium in Massachutts Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges, and U. Mass. Amherst. Two of these colleges are all female, and women from the all female colleges frequently seek sex from men at the three schools where men are allowed to matriculate. A male friend of mine who graduated from Hampshire told me he felt guilty about having so much sex with so many women from the all female colleges. He said that obtaining sex was so easy that he always wanted to say to his numerous lovers, "Stop making it so easy for me! Make me work for it!" But at least we can be grateful that the many sexually frustrated women from Smith and Mount Holyoke have rarely if ever sexually assaulted male students as a consequence of their frustrations. Again, good looking male prostitutes brought in from Third World countries to service these women would do much to alleviate this problem.

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