sex work

http://www.alternet.org/sex/51408/

Well, IS stripping feminism?

The article above asserts that it is, because the money earned from it helps women economically achieve equality to men.

True. But the question is, must we give up one principle of equality for another? Let's not forget that feminism is striving towards political, economical, and social justice. Do we have to give up the idea of social (i.e. sexual) equality in the name of advancing economic equilibrium?

And it isn't as if women are even the major profiteers of sex work anyway. Behind every whore is the pimp, and behind every stripper on the pole is the manager of the bar.

"We can talk about anything you want, as long as you're naked." – Striptease (1996)

In the Christian Bible, Job was a man who was tortured by his God as a test of his faith. Poor Job ended up being the pawn in a heated argument between God and Satan. Today, we use the word "job" to refer to a torture that we endure as a test of our sense of irony. We're pawns in a heated battle between very different gods: corporate masters, enslaving the masses in a whole new social division known as "the middle class."

We middle classers don't have it too bad. We are expected to possess proficient English skills, but only moderately so, and may still engage in some enjoyable slang without fearing reprimand from our fellow MC'ers. We are expected to dress in a humble Wal Mart wardrobe, and can do better if we please, but don't have to wiggle into any corsets. We can afford fairly amusing entertainment, with a constant flow of Hollywood blockbusters to satiate any discontent amongst the masses. We even get to paste little patriotic stickers on our cars, so that we feel connected to our leaders. In general, we're a fairly well-taken-care-of population.

Feeling a lack of identity reading that summary? Sort of swallowed up in a mass statistic? Read on…