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What’s funny is prostitution was legal most of the time and in most places in the western world until recently. Widespread prohibition of it is not as much a ho

What’s funny is prostitution was legal most of the time and in most places in the western world until recently. Widespread prohibition of it is not as much a holdover from medieval times as a recent sex-negative feminist innovation. Which makes sense when you consider that the people punished are usually horny, kind-of-sleazy guys.

mcpackieh 3y ago
> What’s funny is prostitution was legal most of the time and in most places in the western world until recently. That attitude towards prostitution closely correlates with those same societies considering women to be property. Anti-prostitution laws and the emancipation of women go hand-in-hand.
- effingwewt 3y ago
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  - appleskeptic 3y ago
    It’s illegal in Canada, but only for the buyer. Which goes along with modern prohibition being an anti-man feminist thing.
WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
> Widespread prohibition of it is .. a .. recent sex-negative feminist innovation. I remember influential church culture as more theist than feminist. Maybe I'm experiencing a Mandela Effect.
- appleskeptic 3y ago
  It’s probably most accurate to say it’s an unspoken alliance between the two groups—feminists and traditional moralists. But when the church was actually politically powerful, prostitution was much less likely to be prohibited than it is now.
mcphage 3y ago
> the people punished are usually horny, kind-of-sleazy guys No, the people punished are usually the prostitutes.
ulizzle 3y ago
Historical rewriting liberal b.s. The Roman’s stripped you of citizenship if you were in any way involved in prostitution. Only takes a quick Google search to confirm
- JamesBarney 3y ago
  I did a quick Google. Being a pimp was regarded as distasteful and had legal consequences so most rich people running a brothel used an intermediary freedman to manage his investment. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_ancient_Rome https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_ancient_Rome

mcpackieh 3y ago

> What’s funny is prostitution was legal most of the time and in most places in the western world until recently. That attitude towards prostitution closely correlates with those same societies considering women to be property. Anti-prostitution laws and the emancipation of women go hand-in-hand.

effingwewt 3y ago
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- appleskeptic 3y ago
  It’s illegal in Canada, but only for the buyer. Which goes along with modern prohibition being an anti-man feminist thing.

WarOnPrivacy 3y ago

> Widespread prohibition of it is .. a .. recent sex-negative feminist innovation. I remember influential church culture as more theist than feminist. Maybe I'm experiencing a Mandela Effect.

appleskeptic 3y ago
It’s probably most accurate to say it’s an unspoken alliance between the two groups—feminists and traditional moralists. But when the church was actually politically powerful, prostitution was much less likely to be prohibited than it is now.

mcphage 3y ago

> the people punished are usually horny, kind-of-sleazy guys No, the people punished are usually the prostitutes.

ulizzle 3y ago

Historical rewriting liberal b.s. The Roman’s stripped you of citizenship if you were in any way involved in prostitution. Only takes a quick Google search to confirm

JamesBarney 3y ago
I did a quick Google. Being a pimp was regarded as distasteful and had legal consequences so most rich people running a brothel used an intermediary freedman to manage his investment. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_ancient_Rome https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_ancient_Rome