Charles Hill, a business school professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, penned a recent blog entry looking at a change in local police tactics intended to reduce the demand for the service of sex workers.
Since the only way to reduce a person’s demand for sex is by having sex with that person, I find it very entertaining how these poor police officers go about such a task. Isn’t it entirely ridiculous that a state would waste money and manpower on such completely ridiculous tasks? Are there no actual criminals for the police to investigate?
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That’s a residual of mixing politics and religion. The Dutch system makes far more sense and would provide healthcare and employment for some who cannot otherwise do either, plus tax revenue for local government. There are other victimless crimes on which police spend their time, just as there are real crimes (e.g., rape, child abuse) that often don’t receive adequate attention.
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“Reduce demand” is a particularly insidious euphemism meaning “harass clients”. But yes, it’s utterly ridiculous.
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I don’t think you understand how awful Seattle is — the quality of people in Seattle leaves me astounded that anyone would want to have sex with them.
In Seattle, you can be harassed by the police for obeying and disobeying the traffic laws, so you can take it as read that they really do not have much better to do. You can be harassed by police for drinking a cherry soda in a brown bottle, for instance, as I was several years ago.
At least I wasn’t smacked to the ground and arrested for crossing a street freely as was that one Oxbridge don in Atlanta. 🙂
I call Seattle “Leeds-on-Sound”, and I was quite chuffed not to have to stay there after a long assignment …
It’s so awful that I provide occasional encouragement to anyone wishing to leave. 🙂
As for the University of Washington, the denizens there don’t realise how they’re protected from having to admit to the existence of certain information. My favourite case of ignorance involves a psychologist who named her “Cognitive Behavioural Therapy” with the same acronym as befits a specific type of bondage and domination technique.
It probably hurts about as much. 🙂
I went back to Seattle and found it so bizarre I actually sat down to pen this:
http://ihateseattle.com/posts/the-seattle-reset
Don’t read too much into this missive from some Yoo-Dub denizen.
Reality doesn’t work properly in Seattle.
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Presumably demand for sex is not the same thing as a demand for the services of sex workers. Some people seem to be able to have it without treating it as a commodity. And I’m inclined to disagree that demand for sex is not limitable by people simply controlling their appetites. Desiring sex =/= having to have it at any cost. Or if there is, there’s probably something wrong with that person…
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“Some people seem to be able to have it without treating it as a commodity. ”
“Or if there is, there’s probably something wrong with that person”
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And if the demand for sex has little to do with the demand for sex workers, why is the police involved in such a ridiculous initiative? Not that reducing the demand for sex workers is a productive activity for the police to be involved in, but at least it wouldn’t sound that bloody stupid.
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