[soc.feminism] legal prostitution

baranski@meridn.enet.dec.com (12/08/90)

gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit) said:

>Quite a few women feel that they are degraded and/or in a risk of being raped
>because there are prostitutes around.

Then why don't these woman take the problem up with the other women, the
prostitutes, instead of trying to get the government to do their dirty work for
them?

Interesting, isn't it that feminists cry 'you can't legislate morality' with
regard to abortion, but want to legislate morality on pornography.

>An increase in the number women who *choose* to be prostitutes is
>something that most main-stream feminists don't want to see...  (Just
>try to fit it into the theory...)

When a Theory doesn't fit Reality, the problem is often the Theory.

Jim Baranski

gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit) (12/08/90)

#Quite a few women feel that they are degraded and/or in a risk of being raped
#because there are prostitutes around.

In article <93781@aerospace.AERO.ORG> baranski@meridn.enet.dec.com writes:
>Then why don't these woman take the problem up with the other women, the
>prostitutes, instead of trying to get the government to do their 
>dirty work for them?

Because the prostitutes founded an organization called COYOTE (Call 
Off Your Old Tired Ethics) and told their "defenders" to fuck off.