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The answer to the problem of prostitution is not to prosecute the women being used in it, but to start prosecuting the men who exploit these women and children and the pimps who make so much money from them. Why are their criminal, immoral actions continually ignored in favour of persecuting the most vulnerable and helpless people in the transaction? It would be like arresting slaves rather than slave owners. Men who believe they have the right to purchase women's bodies to masturbate into are the people who have created the demand for prostitution and the social blight and misery that it causes. Their actions are what need to be counteracted not those of desperate women and children who have no other choices.

There is no such thing as a "biological urge" to exploit a prostituted person. What kind of a man feels the need to stick his penis inside of someone who wouldn't look at him twice if they didn't need the money for drugs, or to pay the rent or because they will be beaten by their pimp if they don't come back with enough money? The level of callousness involved in believing that you have the sexual right to someone's body if you have enough cash in your pocket is astounding.

So in short the answer to the issue of prostitution is prosecute the pimps, prosecute the johns, support women and children who want to escape prostitution, and for all those men out there who believe they are controlled by a biological urge to sexually act out on the bodies of the most vulnerable women in our society - take up masturbation.

posted 4 years, 8 months ago
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