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Prostitution is slavery (echoes of history)

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http://aeon.co/essays/what-the-sex-trade...lave-trade

EXCERPT: Prostitution is a system of commercial sexual exploitation, which is reliant on and steeped in racism, colonialism, slavery, genocide and abuse of the most marginalised and disenfranchised women and girls. The sex trade has much in common with the slave trade. [...]

The existence of the sex trade is reliant on misogyny, class prejudice, racism, colonialism and imperialism. There is much written about the gendered nature of the sex trade, as well as how poverty is a key driver. Meanwhile, there has been a resounding silence regarding racism in prostitution, yet many of the 50 sex-trade survivors with whom I spent time while researching my book on the global sex trade, *The Pimping of Prostitution* (2017), spoke of the dual oppressions they faced as women from minority ethnic communities.

[...] African-American women and girls are far more vulnerable to being lured into prostitution than their white counterparts. Meanwhile, many women in and from Southeast Asian countries such as the Philippines, South Korea, Cambodia and Vietnam are sold to men visiting as sex tourists. [...] The marketing of sexual services is often reliant on racist and colonialist stereotypes. For example, when the Asian Women for Equality Society in the US analysed 1,472 online advertisements for prostitution, it found that 90 per cent used racist tropes regarding Asian women as a selling factor. The women were ‘branded and packaged as submissive, exotic, newly immigrated, fresh off the boat, young and inexperienced – this is what men are looking for in Asian women’.

[...] Many women of colour have spoken about being raised under a cloud of sexual expectation that leads to them being vulnerable to prostitution. Meanwhile, many white men appear to expect girls and women from particular ethnic backgrounds to be particularly ‘suited’ to the sex trade....

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(Jul 2, 2018 02:26 AM)C C Wrote: http://aeon.co/essays/what-the-sex-trade...lave-trade

EXCERPT: Prostitution is a system of commercial sexual exploitation, which is reliant on and steeped in racism, colonialism, slavery, genocide and abuse of the most marginalised and disenfranchised women and girls. The sex trade has much in common with the slave trade. [...]

The existence of the sex trade is reliant on misogyny, class prejudice, racism, colonialism and imperialism. There is much written about the gendered nature of the sex trade, as well as how poverty is a key driver. Meanwhile, there has been a resounding silence regarding racism in prostitution, yet many of the 50 sex-trade survivors with whom I spent time while researching my book on the global sex trade, *The Pimping of Prostitution* (2017), spoke of the dual oppressions they faced as women from minority ethnic communities.

[...] African-American women and girls are far more vulnerable to being lured into prostitution than their white counterparts. Meanwhile, many women in and from Southeast Asian countries such as the Philippines, South Korea, Cambodia and Vietnam are sold to men visiting as sex tourists. [...] The marketing of sexual services is often reliant on racist and colonialist stereotypes. For example, when the Asian Women for Equality Society in the US analysed 1,472 online advertisements for prostitution, it found that 90 per cent used racist tropes regarding Asian women as a selling factor. The women were ‘branded and packaged as submissive, exotic, newly immigrated, fresh off the boat, young and inexperienced – this is what men are looking for in Asian women’.

[...] Many women of colour have spoken about being raised under a cloud of sexual expectation that leads to them being vulnerable to prostitution. Meanwhile, many white men appear to expect girls and women from particular ethnic backgrounds to be particularly ‘suited’ to the sex trade....

MORE: https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-sex-trad...lave-trade

Quote:Prostitution is a system of commercial sexual exploitation

prostitution is capitalist.
the uncomfortable reality for closet facist capitalists is that the increased value of looks & sexual proess is somethng that abates rich mens will to abide by conservative patriarchal social class systems.
which is why prostitution is sold as exploitative to women, (supposedly)championed by women.

it is the men telling rich well off women that prostitution is bad and there for should be eliminated from capitalist society.

it is a false game of moral hypocrisy used to enslave women and remove women from gaining power in commercial processes that men wish to dominate.

do poor women go marching around demanding women should not be getting money for sex ?

not that i have seen.
if anyone can find any examples showing videos of protests by poor people in poor capitalist areas protesting against prostitution then please post.

The only sane and socially responsible way to manage prostitution is to legalise it and regulate it as a taxed legitimated profesion that has health standards & codes so it polices its self against underage sex, slavery &
drug-addiction-exploitation.

poor 3rd world agrarian cultures where slavery is normalised is not a sane and ligitimate social culture to form normalising moral structural examples of modes of social code for 1st world intellectual economys.

Quote:Many women of colour have spoken about being raised under a cloud of sexual expectation that leads to them being vulnerable to prostitution. Meanwhile, many white men appear to expect girls and women from particular ethnic backgrounds to be particularly ‘suited’ to the sex trade....

this is blatent misogynist propoganda baiting with 3rd world agrarian male only ruled cultures for the consumption of elitist religious conservatives.
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