I love my parents, but...

they can be quite obnoxious sometimes.

For example, I was having dinner with them last night, and a friend of mine who my mom happens to seemingly not like very much came up in conversation.

I don't know why my mom dislikes this person so much - I mean she is quite a bit older than me (in her 30's), but she's more of a mentor than anything. Maybe it's because she's a flamingly liberal activist who used to write a sex advice column? And my mom is kind of a freeper? Who knows. My mom has never met this person, and therefore really doesn't have a right to pass judgement on her.

So anyways, my mom got really insulting, saying how she doesn't like her facebook display picture, because it looks "hookerish". (For the record, it's no worse than anything in a fashion magazine). My mother then went on to ask me, flat out, if my friend was a prostitute, and then said "I don't want you hanging out with her if she's a prostitute".

My friend isn't a sex worker, but so what if she was? She is also one of the smartest, kindest, funniest people I've ever met... she has an absolute heart of gold, and I would never judge her based on her sex life.

I told my mother that I was sick of her insulting my friends in front of me, and also, I don't feel like it's my place to pass judgement on other people's sex lives, so long as what they do is consensual. My mom went on to say how she has a right to say whatever she wants, and how disappointed she is in me for not thinking sex work is inherently wrong and immoral.

I was already in a sh*t mood, and this is really not helpful. The friend who my mother was badmouthing moved away back in December (only for a year, though, to travel around southeast Asia), and I was kind of having a hard time with her not being here for me to talk to. I'm also missing a lot of my friends from camp, who are scattered all around the world right now. So I've been in this kind of "loneliness" funk.

:(

I am sorry you're having so much trouble with your parents...

You're still at home, right?

You live under their roof, and you are subject to their ways...

But...

They should have more respect for you than that...

But if I'm wrong, and you're independent of them?

I'd stay the hell away...

I wish I could give you better advice...:hug:

I still live at home... but only 19 months until I go to university.

Like I said, I love my parents, they just drive me slightly insane.

:hug:

University is a complete change of pace...

You will have so much more freedom there...

You will learn and grow as you never have before!

:hug:

Still made... mistakes... but my parents were right. (not re: prostitution, but that issue is not even remotely germane to this conversation.)

Prostitution is dangerous. Forget the moral/immoral/amoral discussions; it is currently illegal. Never mind that, but prostitutes tend to get mugged (easy money), and may or may not be "clean".

Jerry Springer glamorizes the behavior before giving the 180 degree rubbish speech at the end of the episode.

Relationships van break up over time and all, but it's bad news for all involved to buy it or sell it. A shame people have to sell it and it's a shame other people need to buy it.

If regulated and people really have nothing else, why not? I mean, one night costs as much as a computer these days... talk about cheap.

Just my two cents. But to learn the hard way is utterly terrible. STDs, associated stigmas... no, it's nobody's business.

But sometimes people who pester in their loved ones' lives care, which is why they make it their business.

Is it too late for me to have learned my own tangent...

Still, the thing is, my friend isn't a prostitute! I don't know why my mother would ever say that!