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Is paying for a legal degree by prostitution ethical?

ernestm May 30, 2020 at 04:18 5375 views 22 comments
A student asked if I'd pay her for virtual sex to raise money for her law degree. Is that ethical, do you think?

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jgill May 30, 2020 at 04:26 #417619
Did you mean virtuous sex? It may not be ethical, but the irony is pleasing. :smile:
Outlander May 30, 2020 at 05:50 #417643
A student? Meaning you're a teacher? If this is the kind of questions teachers these days are wondering, whatever diploma mill you got your certs from needs to be shut down.

The only remotely ethical argument that can be made is any man who would pay for something you can watch or essentially experience for free would've- somehow- inevitably wasted it on stupider things anyway.

Sorry I lost focus for a moment. Two questions. Is prostitution ethical? Rather is it unethical? If so, does using the money for something that benefits society as a whole redeem it? Prostitution spreads disease, cheapens a society and a people, and nine times out of ten makes for quite a few disappointed family members.
TheMadFool May 30, 2020 at 07:17 #417664
Quoting ernestm
A student asked if I'd pay her for virtual sex to raise money for her law degree. Is that ethical, do you think?


What's the alternative? Marriage? What is marriage but a contract wherein a man agrees, in the traditional sense of wedlock, to finance a woman's wants? Too cynical for your taste? Diamonds are a girl's best friend. :chin:
Benkei May 30, 2020 at 07:19 #417665
Reply to ernestm Depends on your relationship with her.
GTTRPNK May 31, 2020 at 09:48 #418024
Your title and the content look like 2 different questions/issues. I don't believe prostitution is unethical. I'm not sure what you mean by "virtual sex" but I don't believe any cam girl stuff is unethical. If you're both consenting adults, do whatever you like. Being your student shouldn't really matter, unless it becomes an interference in the classroom.
unenlightened May 31, 2020 at 15:47 #418135
Quoting ernestm
A student asked if I'd pay her for virtual sex to raise money for her law degree. Is that ethical, do you think?


No. It is immoral to charge students for education.
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ernestm June 01, 2020 at 02:11 #418595
Reply to tim wood Apparently quite a few people here do, because some of the girls asking money for it have been 18 for years.
Relativist June 01, 2020 at 02:31 #418598
Quoting ernestm
Apparently quite a few people here do, because some of the girls asking money for it have been 18 for years.

This answers your question about whether or not its ethical: of course it's ethical, since it will keep her perpetually young.

ernestm June 01, 2020 at 02:39 #418600
praxis June 01, 2020 at 02:51 #418602
Reply to ernestm

I guess it depends at least in part on how good she is at virtual sex, as well as how good virtual sex is, for that matter.
praxis June 01, 2020 at 03:04 #418604
Reply to GTTRPNK

There's the moral issue of objectifying women.
fishfry June 01, 2020 at 05:39 #418647
Quoting ernestm
A student asked if I'd pay her for virtual sex to raise money for her law degree. Is that ethical, do you think?


If you ask a woman out, buy her dinner, and have sex with her, that's a date. If you ask a woman out, have sex with her, and give her money so she can buy her own dinner, that's a crime!
GTTRPNK June 01, 2020 at 06:25 #418665
Reply to praxis I'm not disagreeing that there is an issue with that in society. I don't think that one particularly applies here, however. I think the actual ethical dilemma is the student-teacher power dynamic. If she wants to be objectified, that's her thing and she gets to do that. But if he, as her teacher, engages in that way, there is an imbalance of power and that could have rather dire consequences.
fdrake June 01, 2020 at 14:13 #418933
Reply to tim wood

Phonesex with webcam/wanking together over webcam.
Alternatively people writing personalised erotica in emotes while wanking, like love letters with read receipts.
Deleted User June 01, 2020 at 15:15 #418972
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SkOwl June 04, 2020 at 04:35 #420162
Hi everyone
Well...
A student asked if I'd pay her for virtual sex to raise money for her law degree. Is that ethical, do you think?
@ernestm

Does it really matter? She gets the money for the degree. Nobody from university will ever ask her, where she gets her money. Well, there is interesting point, that she needs to use her body to "make her brain better".
The ethical question, I suppose, is question of a student for her teacher. Another one, if she agree with "selling her body" for a diploma. Some kind of machiavellism, I suppose.
ernestm June 04, 2020 at 04:52 #420171
Reply to SkOwl Well, thats why there are 'peaceful demonstrations' about a policeman killing someone by mistake while gangs loot private businesses in this country. Do the 'peaceful demonstrations' try to stop the looting? No, that's not their problem, they say, they take no moral responsibility for anything except a paycheck, as far as I can tell, and she is just another like them, according to you.
SkOwl June 04, 2020 at 06:03 #420201
Reply to ernestm
Alora. Yes, I agree with you. But, if you want to take it as fundamental (I hope I used the right word - sorry, I am not english-native speaking), it doesn´t matter for paying something how you get the money. You have something to pay, you pay it. But, the reasons, the options, the methods of earning these money are questions of a morality or ethics.
GTTRPNK June 12, 2020 at 10:07 #423064
Reply to praxis Someone can choose that line of work without there being objectification.
praxis June 12, 2020 at 14:18 #423151
GTTRPNK June 16, 2020 at 11:58 #424314
Well, the example given is the student asking for the teacher to support them, so I don't think ethics really comes into this situation, with regards to objectification. So you've taken it from "Is this ethical?" To "Is objectivification ethical?" when I don't believe it must be necessarily objectification.