What’s funny is prostitution was legal most of the time and in most places in the western world until recently. Widespread prohibition of it is not as much a holdover from medieval times as a recent sex-negative feminist innovation. Which makes sense when you consider that the people punished are usually horny, kind-of-sleazy guys.

> the people punished are usually horny, kind-of-sleazy guys

No, the people punished are usually the prostitutes.

> Widespread prohibition of it is .. a .. recent sex-negative feminist innovation.

I remember influential church culture as more theist than feminist. Maybe I'm experiencing a Mandela Effect.

It’s probably most accurate to say it’s an unspoken alliance between the two groups—feminists and traditional moralists. But when the church was actually politically powerful, prostitution was much less likely to be prohibited than it is now.

> What’s funny is prostitution was legal most of the time and in most places in the western world until recently.

That attitude towards prostitution closely correlates with those same societies considering women to be property. Anti-prostitution laws and the emancipation of women go hand-in-hand.

Bull.Shit. Yet again you are making shit up. Prostitution is literally called 'the oldest profession' for a reason. It is legal right now in many places- Canada, for example. Those women aren't the property of some evil man.

Maybe edutate yourself, or speak to someone who works in the profession before shoving your biases and lies into a conversation about w very serious topic.

It’s illegal in Canada, but only for the buyer. Which goes along with modern prohibition being an anti-man feminist thing.

Historical rewriting liberal b.s. The Roman’s stripped you of citizenship if you were in any way involved in prostitution.

Only takes a quick Google search to confirm

I did a quick Google. Being a pimp was regarded as distasteful and had legal consequences so most rich people running a brothel used an intermediary freedman to manage his investment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_ancient_Rome

The idea that prohibition on prostitution is to combat fatherless could not be further from the truth.

The government in many avenues encourages and subsidizes fatherlessness in society in general, and the laws around prohibition were never contemplated, or even remotely idealized as an effort to combat the issue of fatherless homes.

I specifically said the collective experience of humanity before now (the average attitude over the last several thousand years). Nothing to do with our current government.