Comment on Zoe Broklehurst's blog "prostitution"

Just reading through this brought my own opinions up on prostitution. Now I mentioned these views not too long ago to someone in the class, and don't think I was taken too seriously. You see, I personally think prostitution should be legalised for several reaons, including safety both for the prostitute and the buyer, cleanliness, and basic integrity.

I don't know if anyone has ever heard or seen of either A) a film called Serenity, or B) a series called Firefly - both sci-fi written by Joss Whedon (the writer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer), well I got the ideas from that, as it is law there that a "companion" is kept on a ship as a diplomat (a woman called Inara in this case), you see prsotitution in that world is a very prestigious job, they're academy trained, very well educated, clean, beautiful. So basically not only should it be legalised, but it should be protected by law. Every six months the prostitute (or escort, or companion) should be taken to a testing facility and be tested for every STD/I and general health, before going ahead with any form of service, a contract must be signed by the consumer stating he/she agrees to pay "X" amount and abide by a certain code, i.e. - whatever the prostitute (escort/companion) has agreed to do.

If that happens we get a decreased amount of sexualy transmitted infections and diseases, a decreased amount of illegal prostitution, and eventually over generations it will become most likely a better adhered to job than toilet cleaner.

Smoking?

Well, I smoke - so it can't be that bad.

I've been an official part of the Nicotine club for the best part of 6 years now, and considering I'm only 20 then I'd say I was a young-ish starter. When people who don't smoke, or even worse, people who are anti-smoking come up and talk to me about it, they usually say things like "Aren't you scared of cancer", "doesn't it make your teeth yellow?" and "oh god, it makes you smell" - well, cancer... people get cancer anyway, my uncle was a non-smoker (maybe not all his life) but died of cancer anyway. So, I can't be scared of something that I don't really have any control over. It doesn't make my teeth yellow because I found this great little invention called a toothbrush, and smells.... generally I tend to smell of YSL L'Homme aftershave and Lynx so it rarely causes bother.

That said, I wouldn't recommend it for anyone. I started young because at the time there was some lads that I used to hang around with and I was convinced it was cool, I was also convinced that it added a certain "bad boy" look to it. The proverbial rebel in me took over I guess. I have noticed a few things though, my stamina isn't what it used to be back when i didn't smoke as much and played Rugby, also I do have a consistent slight cough which I can only assume will get worse with time.


Now, is it bad? Well, I'm not hurting anyone - so i guess it can't really be called bad as such, it hurts nobody else and I'm confident that it won't decrease my life expectancy to the point where my parents will have to bury me. the thing that is more likely to reduce my life expectancy so much is catchng pneumonia from standing out in the rain because our "over P.C" government will no longer allow us to settle our nicotine cravings indoor. I mean, come on - what was wrong with a desginated smoking area?!

Oh well, I'll leave it there I think... time for a cigarette...

Blog setup

So, here we go, I've jus set up the blog for Being bad... let's see if it works. =D

Oh, and apparently we need to suggest something to do in Week 12. Right, well it's going to have to be a field trip somewhere, because we all enjoy being out of the classroom don't we? =P

Um, hm... So children where would we like to go? Im thinking multiple places... Amsterdam, Russia, Germany - oh the endless possibilites for students in the fruit of life. But, im guessing we're not thinking about international excavations. So, maybe something that could show us being bad in a broad sense. Though, in saying all that I have no idea where, but field trip anyway!!