Texas Teacher Gets 5 Years For Sex With 18-Year-Old Jocks

[Traitorfish]

You don't seem to understand: the practice of tipping increases the power disparity between service-worker and customer, because the worker is no more dependent on the whims of the customer to sustain her/his income.

 

[Snorrius]

You don't seem to understand: the practice of tipping increases the power disparity between service-worker and customer, because the worker is no more dependent on the whims of the customer to sustain her/his income.

Well, in Russia (or in other countries where I was) you pay for haircutting according to price. As well as for sex service. No one prohibit to tip but it is not really one expects. And thinking about it - the prohibiting of tipping makes more sense then prohibiting sex services as other services also can be subject to it making relationships "unequal". The sex itself is just service like haircutting or going to restaurant. I do not expect "relationships" when I go to a sex worker or to a haircutter, I expect a good service.

 

[Traitorfish]

That's grand, I'm sure, but your expectations have precisely nothing to do with how commercial interactions actually work. Service-workers need customers more than customers need service-workers; this constitutes a power imbalance, and regardless of what conclusions are drawn from this, it has to be kept in mind when addressing issues related to service work.

 

[Snorrius]

That's grand, I'm sure, but your expectations have precisely nothing to do with how commercial interactions actually work. Service-workers need customers more than customers need service-workers; this constitutes a power imbalance, and regardless of what conclusions are drawn from this, it has to be kept in mind when addressing issues related to service work.

It can be said about almost any service industry.

Haircutters needs customers more than customers need haircutters.
Restaurants needs customers more than customers need restaurants.
etc.

So any "power imbalances" have nothing to do with sexual side of this service but with nature of service industry itself. There may be issues but I doubt one will call for prohibiting service industry entirely because of "power imablances".

UPDATE:

Actually we are perfectly agree here as I can see. I doubt you have any issues with sex service industry then.

 

[Borachio]

It can be said about almost any service industry.

Haircutters needs customers more than customers need haircutters.
Restaurants needs customers more than customers need restaurants.
etc.

So any "power imbalances" have nothing to do with sexual side of this service but with nature of service industry itself. There may be issues but I doubt one will call for prohibiting service industry entirely because of "power imablances".

UPDATE:

Actually we are perfectly agree here as I can see. I doubt you have any issues with sex service industry then.

This is an absurd analogy.

It would be like two players in a symphony orchestra paying each other for the service they provide for one another.

Sex is a team game. Though played in a brothel it isn't. There you play solitaire with some assistance.

Do you see where this is going?

 

[Snorrius]

Sex is a team game. Though played in a brothel it isn't. There you play solitaire with some assistance.
Do you see where this is going?

Absolutely no. When I was staying in a hotel in Jakarta it was possible to hire a guy to help you play tennis because it is not fun to play it alone. You could pay for simple assistance or for actual teaching how to play. In such kind of services may be a certain specifics but yet again it is not something specifical to sex. There are a lot of services which imply some team activity, and I do not see anything inherently bad in paying for it nor in earning money by providing such types of services.

P.S. And certainly this guy needed customers more than customers him...

 

[Borachio]

not fun to play it alone

That's certainly a point of view.