It’s wrong to judge those who oppose

I am writing in response to the May 27 letter, “Why so hung up on some skin?”

You are right, we do use our bodies to do our work, and the people who use them in the way you are promoting have to be 18 and in a licensed establishment. When you are buying your coffee you might as well be stuffing their tip in their underwear. I am sick of being attacked for having standards.

Let’s address some of the writer’s “where is your morality” questions, shall we? I am concerned for the safety and morality of today’s younger generation! I don’t drive a gas-guzzling SUV, I drink coffee, yes. Are the beans grown by slave labor? I don’t know the answer to that anymore than you know if some kid in a Third World country made your T-shirt.

Oh, and while our kids are dying in a war for oil, my uncle is over there as a civilian contractor playing his part, and he isn’t even in the military. When it comes to ending poverty, don’t get me started. I have and still do give clothing to the homeless, raise money to help get them off the street and feed the people others walk by every day! I do have a life and I do have pleasure. It’s called being a mother of three young boys and the last thing I want them to see is someone’s breasts draping over the coffee counter. If you had a daughter, is that what you would want her to do for an after-school job?

Taresia Merwin