Sex is abuse?

So I saw this picture "Real men don't buy girls". This is a bold tactic against human trafficking. I don't think that people should be property. I believe it is our personal and societal obligation to protect our young and to not abuse the vulnerable.

STOP HUMAN TRAFFICKING!

That being said, I found this picture in a promotion for the website sextrade101.com. You should read it. There are some real concerns here. People should not hurt other people. The founder of the site, Natasha Falle, said, "Prostitution is the abuse of women plain and simple."

I think it is neither plain nor simple.

What is wrong with exchanging services for money? Lawyers do it. Factory workers do it. Computer programmers do it. Teachers do it. If you have a job, you are trading your services for money. Prostitution is the exchange of sexual services for money.

If lawyering, building, programming, teaching, etc. is not abuse, then the difference must be sex. So then sex = abuse.

That is messed up. Sure there is sexual abuse, but not all sex is abuse and not all abuse is sex.

I do not understand what is so wrong about sex. Why should it be illegal to offer to exchange sex for money (or vice versa, no pun intended)? Why should it be illegal to live off the money earned in exchange for sex?

What if the sex trade were unionized? It worked for coal miners and steel workers... just look at how much better protected those workers are under the law than in pre-union times. Not perfect, but better. Think of the income tax implications of adding all that additional self-employment income. Think of the opportunities for better support, health, education, and training. Think how the trade would not be forced into the shadows where people look the other way.

I hope sextrade101.com will help to make everyone safer and happier. If it starts to demonize sex, then maybe what we need to do is make it illegal to live off the avails of special interest propagandizing...

I'm just saying ..

We need our Education to be fully funded.

I'm pretty sure that several someones in the Provincial budgeting process could use some remedial math and problem-solving lessons.

Pop Quiz:
1) An Education department is responsible for funding the operations of school boards with approximately 553,000 students and 36,000 teachers in the 2011-2012 fiscal year. In 2012-2013, the number of students is expected to increase by 1.5% and the salaries for teachers are expected to increase 5.0%. If the actual cost in 2011-2012 was $5,884,134,000 how much should be budgeted for 2012-2013 in order to maintain the same student-teacher ratio? (Choose the best/closest answer.)
   A- $6,082,000,000
   B- $6,270,000,000
   C- Some number that we can claim is a 3.4% increase in spending
   D- None of the above

I claim the answer is B: 5,884,134,000 * 1.015 * 1.05 = $6,270,000,000 (approx.) If you answered A or C then you are a Departmental Minister or someone involved in creating the budget.  (Source: 2012 AB Budget - pg. 26)

Obviously education IS important. It helps us balance our budgets. It helps us solve problems.

Considering this is just one example of bad budgeting, I dread to think how badly forecast the entire budget is!

I'm just saying.