History of Feminism

And quite frankly forgot them.

I'm a Joss Whedon fan, so I'm going to head toward the realm of Sci-Fi here. But until some fundamental inequities are overcome, there will never be enough risk reduction. This is shown by what happen countries where legalized prostitution exists.

The reason I would like to see prostitution as we know it eradicated is because it's built on a rickety structure of sexual norms, fantasy that involve gendered power plays, evolving out of repressed sexuality. This repression evolved from religion, yes, but also war-- to conquer a people you conquer thier reproduction. This is still happenng.

In a Joss Wheadon world, his "companions" still weren't able to overcome the stigma of "whoredom" but they gave it the old college try. So schools were formed, male and female and all inbetween went through a rigorous process of training. A companian was considered (mostly) an honored profession, and there we arrive at the crux of the matter. Prostitutes are not honored. They are subject to violence and abuse. They are a punchline of a thousand jokes. They are objectified and dehumanized.

The legal brothels need to have protections in place. Prostitutes are reliant on these protections-- just like the pump structure. Along with prostitution, legal and not comes any number of illegal activity. Drug running, child prostitution, other violence. I don't see legalization as improving this in any way, although I do believe in decriminalizing it.