Legalized Decriminalized Prostitution: Societal Devolution or Common Sense?
October 21, 2008 / 10:03 pm • By Dr. Melissa Clouthier
The other day, we discussed here (at MelissaClouthier.com for Right Wing News readers) whether Sweden is a canary in the minefield (and yes, I was aware that the statement is “a canary in the coal mine” and that I was mixing metaphors) of Western Civilization. One of the notions of particular interest hinged on this statement:
“As political and economic freedom diminishes” said Aldous Huxley’s in Brave New World, “sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase.” This fits perfectly with Huntford’s description. The state strips away your personal, economic and political freedom, yet grants you sexual freedom in return, boldly hailing itself as your liberator. Sweden in 2008 is a society with no real freedom of speech if you deviate from the ruling ideology. The more crushing ideological censorship and political repression become, the more frantic the displays of “sexual freedom” get. Sex is freedom; freedom means sex, and only sex.
So now, San Francisco, a city where a person making an average American wage cannot afford to buy a home or live, San Francisco, a sanctuary city, San Francisco, quite possibly the most liberal city in the United States wants to make prostitution legal decriminalized. Really, in the list of moral ills afflicting the city, it seems like small potatoes to legalizedecriminalize prostitution. Heck, why not?
Updated for accuracy and Right Wing Nut Case’s sake. Hey, I care. I really do!
2 Responses to “
LegalizedDecriminalized Prostitution: Societal Devolution or Common Sense?”October 22 2008 / 3:00 am
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Many prostitutes are into it by force. They are pushed into it by pimps or by slave owners, human traffickers, or by so-called “friends.” They do not have the freedom to quit, to say I don’t want to do this anymore and walk away from it. If they try that, they will be severely beaten and badly injured as an example to the other girls of what will happen to them if they try to leave the life.
Many of the girls are trafficked from other countries. They were lured with lies about good jobs in restaurants, etc. They have their passports confiscated. They don’t know the language in the U. S. They are told that if they leave, their families back home will be killed.
Bear in mind that every time these women are forced to have sex when they really don’t want to, they experience it as a rape. And these rapes happen many times a day.
This is the modern day slavery. It is the extreme human rights issue of our time. Studies show that when prostitution is legalized, these girls have even less protection. Legalizing prostitution will just make it easier for the human traffickers and slave owners to do business.
Is this what we want? To make a city in our country privy to one of the worst human rights abuses in the world today? Right under our noses on U. S. soil?
Where is Amnesty International when you need them? Oh I forgot, they’re too busy defending the all important human right to kill babies.
October 22 2008 / 10:12 am
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Yet another example of human decline. Huxley’s comment mirrors history. Of course, treating sexual encounters as a commodity is not new. sexual slavery, sex as a bargaining tool (food, shelter, money, cars, jewelry, attention, need for intimacy, fun and sport, etc.), power and control – we can probably name alot more. Approved deviant behavior are almost at an inverse proportional to true liberty and dignity of women and men.
Purchasing women or men for sex is not a victimless crime. The stench travels to the rest of the society, as the general attitude becomes a shrug of the shoulder – until it’s your daughter or son, husband or wife.
SF’s moniker of “Sodom by the Sea’ still stands true.
Amnsety Int’l has no political gain to make out of men or women forced into the sex trade, especially in one of their sancutary cities.