I have just had the most exhausting and wearisome argument on Telegram...

This person expressed the opinion that all pimps should be executed, prostitutes should be exiled, and prostitution must never be normalized in society.

Whilst I agree with his first point regarding pimps, who are invariably abusive of the women they allegedly protect, I took exception to the other two points. I asked this person why it is that he feels that way, and his response was to tell me that transactionalizing sex is objectifying to women.

I asked him which part of prostitution offends him, the sex or the financial transaction. He refused to answer, instead asking me the same question about rape. When I informed him that it is the force (by which I mean the denial of bodily autonomy) that makes rape so objectionable, he asked me if it was objectively bad to force someone to eat ice cream. He continued pressing forward with his fallacious comparison of sexual intercourse to eating, and declared victory because I consider the act of forcefeeding someone against their will to be detestable as well.

He is currently doing a metaphorical victory dance, claiming that I have said that eating is equivalent to rape.