Hip hip hurray! Now women in Iceland can live in a globalized raunch culture
but never get paid for their participation. Liberation indeed.

First of all, if you think women are objectified by our hyper-sexed culture and
you want change, the banning of strip clubs is certainly no place to start. At
least those women earn money doing what they do. I wish I had been paid for
those hours I put in at school discos back in high school where bumping and
grinding was simply what was done to ‘fit in’.

But let’s get to the bigger picture. So-called ‘feminists’ are now powerful
enough to tell women who disagree with them that they have no right to
capitalize on their sexual power. That they are deluding themselves if they feel
empowered by earning money with their ‘tits and ass’. I thought it was
supposed to be patriarchy that attempted to control the way women use their
sexuality, not the ‘women’s movement’ itself?

One’s ability to do manual labour involving heavy lifting often relies on having
typically male biological traits, just as stripping tends to depend on having
typically female ones. In our economy, we capitalize on our assets – whether
genetic or learned, physical or intellectual, etc.

So unless you’re trying to undermine the entire capitalist system of selling
labour, the sex industry is like any other service industry and should be treated
as such. That is, after all, what so many sex workers are fighting for
themselves.

But no, we read that “the men of Iceland will just have to get used to the idea
that women are not for sale”. Why is dancing on stage in clothing selling your
service as a dancer, but dancing on stage without clothing actually selling
‘you’? It’s pure discrimination that reeks of puritanical notions of sex and self –
particularly with regard to women.

If women involved in the sex industry are not there by choice (a relative notion
– how many work their lives at McDonalds by ‘choice’?) then that is something
to work on. But it is only through the de-stigmatisation of sex work that we
will start to see a sex industry where those working do so because they want
to, and those who don’t find a job they’re better suited to.

Let’s not disenfranchise women in the name of feminism. Because when it
comes to women’s rights, it’s all about choice – right, sister?

http://www.thedailytransmission.com/375/

Quote:
The politician behind the bill, Kolbrún Halldórsdóttir, explained: “It is not acceptable that women or people in general are a product to be sold.”

A common sense point to be sure. But it would never fly with the anachronistic neanderthals here - not to mention the “adult” entertainment industry that profits billions $$$ off them.

Hey, the Icelanders did a great thing ! 

Imagine how it would hurt to get your nor-nor frozen to a brass pole in -20 weather.  (Remember the kid with his tongue frozen to the flagpole in the “Christmas Story” movie?)  Frozen brass poles are a public health hazard. 

Notice that they didn’t ban nude bathing in those volcanic springs and mud pots - that’s an Icelandic tradition. 

To rfidler:
Can you give us MapQuest directions to your church socials ?  PLEASE !!

Exactly, Gman. Nanny-staters decide what’s best for us.

Funny, it seems more feminist to me to allow women the right to choose in what ways they want to use their bodies to make money.  Five minutes in a strip club makes it very clear that the girls on the stage are the one’s doing the exploiting, not the men watching, drinking, and throwing away money to an illusion of getting something more.

Does the photo depict Icelandic “strippers?” I’ve see more risque dress at church socials for Christ’ sake!

Somewhere Jerry Falwell is smiling.