>>1920>What's this to you. ?I just understand the importance of prostitution as a social regulating mechanism.
>when you suggest that rich people shouldn't be able to use money to rent the bodies of poor peoplewe're talking about democratic socialism here, so no rich people or entrenched unaccountable bureaucrats
>Currently 90% of prostitutes only do it because they are forced into it, usually it's economic coercion but there's a lot of human trafficking too. You can objectively measure how it's destroying people.Yes, I told you I've been to brothels, and can see that they are doing it not because of the happy life.
>If you have a socialist society where everybody can pursue a regular job without getting exploited, you're not going to find many volunteers for this. How can you hope to turn this into a public service if you won't find any applicants ? You do realize that once a socialist economy has been fully established, people will get payed according to labor-time, you'll only be able to give people extra bonus payments if people vote to have their income taxed in order to fund these bonuses.Bingo. That's precisely why prostitution would be not exploitative in socialism.
People would need to democratically decide that prostitution is a necessary social service and so agree to deduce some surplus for it just like they would deduce it for healthcare services or any other unproductive but necessary social activity.
You would find applicants by paying them more than average, providing various bonuses like housing, vacations, increasing prestige of the profession, de-stigmatizing the activity, and making prostitution more than just about sexual intercourse. It should be about public sexual health and socialization.
It also should be made clear that a prostitute is a valuable educated professional that costed society many hundreds of thousands of labor hours to produce.
>As far as socialist economics goes, prostitution doesn't count as productive labor, because it doesn't produce a non-ethereal effect in the form of a tangible good or a service that has a permanently lasting beneficial effect, like a medical service that permanently cures an ailment.ok theorylet, medical services aren't considered as productive in marxist theory
you should maybe google how USSR divided its industries among productive/unproductive in its plans
why is it always uneducated brainlets who are arguing against me?
>So all the bean counters that try to optimize the economy they wouldn't want to divert human labor to this either, because other activities will be better at societal wealth-accumulation.We'll leave this decision to the democratic socialist society, ok? We're talking about a developed and wealthy socialist society here, not a yesterday's feudal state.
>Socialist theory considers prostitution as alienated social relation.If we're talking about classical marxism then it was primarily concerned with domestic prostitution under a patriarchal family, not prostitution as a millennia-spanning social phenomenon.
And if we're talking about post-modern feminist "theory" then it has very little to do with actual marxism.
And lets not even talk about modern idpolled "theory" lol