{"id":6586,"date":"2015-04-01T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T07:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=6586"},"modified":"2015-04-01T22:48:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T04:48:45","slug":"exploring-what-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=6586","title":{"rendered":"Exploring What Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This<\/a> is kind of … odd.<\/p>\n

At a recent conference on sex trafficking in Orlando, Florida, members of a panel warned attendees about the dangers of space exploration, saying it would be a gold mine for future sex traffickers.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Space is going to be like a frontier town,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Nicholas Kristoff, who chaired the panel on Sex Trafficking: the Long Term View<\/i>. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There will be no law enforcement in space, which means that girls, some as young as 11, could be easily trafficked to colonies on Mars or in the asteroid belt where they would have to service up to 50 men a day in zero gravity.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Asked for comment by e-mail, Julie Bindel expressed support for a ban on space exploration, noting that science fiction films have frequently depicted prostitution in space. She derided series like Firefly<\/em> for presenting an unrealistic and unrepresentative model of future sex work. She noted that the film Total Recall<\/em> featured numerous prostitutes including one with three breasts. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No little girl grows up wanting to be a triple-breasted Martian prostitute.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She further attributed the recent push for space exploration, particularly the Mars One<\/em> TV show, as being due to efforts by the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pimp lobby\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to create a completely new market for sex outside of the bounds of law enforcement.<\/p>\n

After the panel, the organizers pointed to a recent study by Dominique Roe Sepowitz and the Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research which claimed that ads for interplanetary prostitution have increased 200% in the last year alone and presented evidence that shuttle launches are associated with major increases in sex trafficking. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have good evidence that women and girls were trafficked into Cape Kennedy during the Apollo program as well,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Everywhere there is a rocket launch, there is sex trafficking.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Such opposition is not new. In her seminal book Intercourse<\/i>, feminist icon Andrea Dworkin noted that rockets have a phallic shape. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The push for more space exploration is clearly an effort to thrust these phallic rockets into the universe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unconsenting vagina.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She advocated for an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153enthusiastic consent\u00e2\u20ac\u009d standard from other planets before further human exploration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t even know what to say about this. We haven’t even gotten a man to the moon in 40 years and we have people worried about the future of sex in space. Takes all types, I guess.<\/p>\n

Update<\/b>: This post was part of Maggie’s April Fool<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is kind of … odd. At a recent conference on sex trafficking in Orlando, Florida, members of a panel warned attendees about the dangers of space exploration, saying it would be a gold mine for future sex traffickers. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Space is going to be like a frontier town,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Nicholas Kristoff, who chaired the panel … Continue reading Exploring What Now?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[413,355,52],"class_list":["post-6586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","tag-humor","tag-sex-work","tag-space-exploration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-1Ie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6586"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6615,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions\/6615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}