I am currently in college for Human Services (essentially a stepping stone for a number of careers like addiction counselors, mental health counselors, social workers, etc) tonight our seminar was about pornography and prostitution, and was truly appalled by how many people supported legalized prostitution and considered the banning of something like porn unreasonable. However, interestingly enough my classmates were more critical of the porn industry and were actually shocked that no “age verification” is required for porn sites. I am disappointed that so many women have fallen victim to this illusion that prostitution and porn are lifestyle choices no different than being a “paid athlete” (that was an actual comparison someone used.) One of the stats in our text book mentioned that the average sex worker had 694 partners a year-I am not sure how any woman can interpret that as empowering experience “that’s totally not exploitative.”