Peter: Child prostitution is a symptom of advanced capitalism.WM: I don't know where you trained, but history will show that child prostitution was rampant in China long before the Boxer Rebellion. Rape and pillage were the ways in which soldiers were paid by the Romans and Greeks. Likewise in Bosnia just lately. And we could name civilization after civilization and come up with the same pattern.
Peter: You have a lot more faith in our police state than I do.WM: First, I don't begin with the erroneous notion that we have a police state. Second, I don't think every cop out there is dumb as a bucket of hair.
WM: I'm not sure the task force has a web site. And you would understand more by going on court watch to see the judges adjudicate. It's interesting.Peter: Please give me the web site address for the Prostitution Task Force. Either post it on the list or off line to me along with the names of our local judges who you claim have let johns and pimps off the hook while prosecuting sex workers.
Peter: The American prison system is no respite for anyone!!!!!!! MoreWM: Women's prisons and men's prisons are not exactly the same. In men's prisons child abusers usually wind up dead.
sex crimes happen there than anyplace else.
Peter: Centuries of trying to legislate it away have failed.WM: Centuries don't mean a thing if you don't use legislation wisely. Legalizing prostitution is not good legislation.
Attitudinal changes will not occur as long as sex workers are looked uponWM: Nor as long as prostituted women and children are called sex workers.
as common criminals.
WizardMarks, CentralWizard, I too support the ERA, but thinking that it will gently make prostitution go away is about as naive as all of Phyllis Schaffly's assertions against the ERA.-----Peter Schmitz CARAG
WM: Prostitution will not go away gently under any scenario. The point is not to enact just the ERA, but to enact equal pay for work of equal value, equal opportunity, etc. But mostly to wipe out those habits of thinking that say that any male has the right to put his dingle-dangle in anybody he chooses without true consent--prostituted women and children do not give true consent.
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