Moderator? Reason?

I've just skimmed through the last few pages and can't find a single sentence where I've reflected on a person's character.

'Stressed' on the other hand: -

Sleepyhead... I'm from the UK.

I'm quite happy to put forward views contrary to the status quo. I need only look at the disintegration of the world around me to know there must be ignorant people willing to defend its decadent standards.

Also, you may want to look up the definition of ad hominem to understand why I'm winning this debate.

Ruby, I'm a biologist -- roughly in the same field as "Belle de jour" herself. I just found her comment "I stand by it all with pride" as inexcusable as her voluntary descent into prostitution.

From a government paper 'Paying the Price, a consultation paper on prostitution, has been published to prompt a public debate on how to deal with the issues raised by prostitution in England and Wales'

What problems are caused by the existence of a sex ‘trade’?

2.17 Prostitution makes victims of many of those involved in it, and of those communities in which it takes place.
Key concerns include:
-the nuisance caused to neighbourhoods through noise, litter and harassment
-the impact on the neighbourhood in terms of undermining economic regeneration
-and neighbourhood renewal
-the advertising of prostitution, particularly through soliciting on the street and
-the use of prostitutes’ cards
-the spread of sexually and drug transmitted infections
-increasing use of the internet as a grooming/advertising medium
-links with drug abuse / markets
-links with criminality, including robbery
-related violence, including serious assaults against those involved in prostitution
-the increasing stigmatisation and social exclusion of those involved in prostitution
-the abuse of children through prostitution
-the impact on their families
-people trafficking for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation
-the effect on the attitudes of men to women, and on gender equality more generally.