While Cannold didn’t explicitly give a definition of morality, at least she stuck to just one, katieO. This is hugely preferable to changing definitions twice within the same sentence, as you admit.

You accuse Cannold of trotting out “a definition of morality along the old ... line that morality is limited to behaviour that directly or indirectly affects others.” Yet you are spruiking an even older line that morality is nothing more than blind adherence to an historical novel. Frankly, I don’t see any morality here at all – you can’t be a moral agent when the book you’re slavishly following allows you no freedom to make moral choices.

Especially when it comes to selling sex. Clearly your reading of your book is that there are no circumstances under which the sale of sexual services is moral. By stating that sex workers are moral agents, Cannold is arguing that they are indeed able to make moral choices, and with those choices come responsibilities.

You are yet to present an argument to counter this. In fact it’s beyond me to work out what you’re trying to argue at all. Claims about who is wanted in brothels, and that prostitutes are “moral arbiters of the social impulse” don’t advance an argument.

However they do make one wonder where you got the inside information.

“I'm stuck on re-dial.”

You said it.

Profession?

Bwahahahahaha.

Of areas in NSW where street work is proscribed [even after midnight] is included near view of churches. Oh of the privilege accorded to these tax-exempt citadels of irrational supernatural belief.

Just because prostitution has 'always existed' doesn't mean it should always exist as humanity evolves.
Many middle class intellectuals seem to grandstand philosophically, without really looking at the actual long term effects on the women workers, or the criminal involvement in the industry.
Today's 'relaxed' sexual environment has aggressively devalued sex as a bonding agent for relationship and marriage. However, participating in prostitution is another aggressive, socially alienating step again.
It is obvious why Gunilla Ekberg, the co-executive director of the International Coalition Against Trafficking in Women is pre-occupied with 'prostitute as victim'. S/he is in a position to meet so very many more victims of the trade than the author is, wouldn't you think?

floatinglili, the problem being is that rather than seeking to improve working conditions and removing the criminal element from the industry, people like Ekberg are acting directly against the interests, rights and desires of the workers. LISTEN TO THE WORKERS. *Nobody* is better placed to describe what needs to be done to improve the situation.