Legalize prostitution misc10
Prostitution: Prostitution might appear to be an odd topic for historical inquiry. As "the world's oldest profession," concerned with buying and selling something as "natural" and "unchanging" as sex, it might seem to have no history. However, prostitution is subject to historical change and is shaped by the society in which it exists. In the United States, over the last couple hundred years, the nature of prostitution and the experiences of people working as prostitutes have varied a great deal. The character of women's economic options has affected them by economic depression, by wars, by changing popular attitudes and, in particular, by the law and the ways in which the police, the courts and the prisons have administered the law. Organized political resistance has also played a role. Women working as prostitutes have developed strategies to survive and resist increasing social control. At the same time, the unique cultures of prostitutes are also formed by factors not immediately related to their work. For example, prostitution is more prevalent in working class communities and families. The historical record of prostitution, however, points us towards examining issues of social control, religion, profits, disease an
So now, in my hypothetical world, we are taxing and regulating prostitution, it is an established industry that is generating revenue. The women are unionized and the pimps are long gone. American business thrives and the stigma attached is lessening although it will be quite sometime before it is gone completely. Boys can save a couple of hundred dollars and learn what they are doing before they end up date raping their girlfriend, women can have it all because the need of finding and keeping a man is no longer so economically urgent. All of these are a benefit to society but there is an even more important issue at hand. The government will have finally sent a message to the American people. When we reach this utopian attitude towards sex. The government will have finally recognized two things to which they currently apply a lot of lip service and very little action. Feminist philosophers believe that each person has a private domain, and area over which one is the sole sovereign. People have their offices, their gardens, their kitchen, their car, but when a woman does not have the right to say what she does with her body, and what the going rate is to join her, then she does not have even that most basic of domains, and if her own body is not her domain, then can anything else really be? Moralists would say there is a large difference. Prostitution is about sex, and so it is dirty, and wrong, and illegal. But is it really so dirty wrong or even as illegal as we are lead to belive? Is it even what we think it is? The conundrum that I come to is that we only seem to know prostitution when we see it. Defining it is a stickier wicket. Okay, we know that sex for money is prostitution, but what about sex for a place to live, if one does not live and have sex with one's significant other, then one must either find another other, or pay rent on a place of their own, yet a man who pays his girlfriend's rent could not be arrested. As a matter of fact, a man who gave his girlfriend money because she needed it could not be arrested, neither could the woman. But if the man and the woman do not know each other before the sex act, and have an agreement spoken or otherwise that there will be no social contact after the act, well, that's illegal. What's the difference? DeBouvier states that: 2. The genuine acceptance of a woman having total freedom and complete right to do as she wishes with her own body.
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Approximate Word count = 1828
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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