Comments on: Cyber-escort as power gamer: Interview with Daphne Molinari

By: Saucy Susan

Saucy Susan — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:07:27 +0000

I love the hupocrisy of the modern liberated thinkers. They say women should have the freedom to explore any economic opportunities afforded them by society, but they do not like it when we choose to prostitute ourselves? Is it only alright if we choose what everyone says is alright to choose? How is that a choice then? We then become as constrained in our options as we were in the middle ages. yes more options, but also still limited. If we are going to feel free to do what we wish…we have to be able to do what we wish even if society doesn’t like what we choose. In second life, I have worked had on my avatar to be as appealing as possible, i have invested time and lindens in my shape, skin, clothing, dances. I am highly imaginative, erotically talented, can improvise well to adjust to a clients desires and do it in non-repetative boring ways. This is valued by my clients. What Anne Rampling does for the masses with her Erotica, I do one on one. It is what I wish to do, what I choose to do…but when I make a decision to do as I wish… everyone says ” what has liberation wrought?” TRUE liberation means we are free to allow ourselves to be prostituted if that is what we desire. True Freedom implies the freedom to be exploited, if that is what we wish. If we cannot allow ourselves to do as we please, because society frowns on it, there is no true freedom. So to answer the original poster…

“Its a shame that after liberating women to this point and giving them the freedom to make whatever they want of themselves, THIS is what they choose to do.”

YES it is the wonderous thing of after liberating women to this point and giving US the freedom to make whatever we want of ourselves, THIS is what I….choose to do.

By: ian

ian — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:55:15 +0000

no i am totally for women in the workforce, rather anyone who is able to , i am also for that. but i am saying how some people look at women in the workforce as a joke, because they think down on women

By: Urizenus

Urizenus — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:53:22 +0000

what are you saying? Are you saying that women shouldn’t be in the workforce? why is it that, in your words, “‘women in the workforce’ has turned out to be a joke”

By: ian

ian — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:53:44 +0000

because they are taken as sex objects.

By: urizenus

urizenus — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 01:07:42 +0000

“this is why “women in the workforce” has turned out to be a joke,”

huh?

By: ian

ian — Sun, 19 Sep 2004 21:53:35 +0000

yep she is right, this is why “women in the workforce” has turned out to be a joke, because it is an okay mentality to see women just as objects and a way to “Get off” rather than your hand. all i can say is, someone such as daphne has much more potential than to sell herself, or work for pimps

By: Mafioso

Mafioso — Sun, 19 Sep 2004 21:47:04 +0000

All I am saying is this:

Its a shame that after liberating women to this point and giving them the freedom to make whatever they want of themselves, THIS is what they choose to do.

There is no accomplishment in winning against the weak, and praying on a guys hormones? Its an easy way to make money and a reliable one, but dont ask me to view this development with pride.

There is a scene in Crime and Punishment where a ‘progressive thinker’ claims that in the future, prostitution will be an accepted form of society and would not be scorned. How sad that all our progression has simply led to this. Perhaps the days of a man greeting a woman by kissing her hand *were* better Uri, in some ways women got more respect back then than they do now.

By: urizenus

urizenus — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 21:38:33 +0000

In the first place I never wrote an article about escorts in There, I linked to one. And I never judged the article or the people reported on or even the even editorialized on it, except to say that the author made a good point about people ho-ing themselves in a lame game economy, but noted that he included ho-ing their intellectual talents by writing for newspapers. I *do* find it humorous, however, that there was a parade of Therians charging in to the blog ready to deny that cybering was happening. I never suggested that I would think less of them if there was cybering. Go read the thread.

As for Daphne I don’t see why she hasn’t earned your respect. She should have.

By: ian

ian — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 17:30:17 +0000

thanks mafioso

i am not forcing morals, i was just explaining my morals with many others morals. women can have their own choice, but don’t expect people to have respect for you, when you sell your body for money. uri, i dont get you, you are saying that since it is virtual *pretend* sex, and well that doesnt matter, but on the other hand in your There articles about whores, you do not condone those actions. and please, i am sure on the other side, the men she pleasures prolly feel themselves or jerk off. i am just telling daphne my personal opinion, not forcing anything, but i am sure my morals are expressed by many people. i never said that women have to hide their flesh or any thing of that nature. just tell this “accomplished” phone sex /virtual sex/real life sex whore to cut her whole ego trip and look in the fucking mirror. to get respect you gotta earn it.

By: urizenus

urizenus — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 13:10:39 +0000

Well I guess I *still* don’t get, because I would have thought that respecting a woman and her body meant giving her control over it and not telling her what to do with it (or,in this case, telling her what to pretend to do with it in cyber). When did we decide that respect meant inventing restrictive rules of behavior and insisting that people obey them. What’s next? We make women wear burkas because we respect their bodies? We make them wear chastity belts because we resepct their bodies? We have ritual clitorectomies because we respect their bodies? We ostrasize them because they roleplay escorts in online games…because…we respect their bodies?

Respect means treating someone as an autonomous moral agent with control over their own actions and persons. There is nothing respectful about forcing archaic patriarchal morality on people.