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Re:Ex-owners of sex work site Backpage convicted of prostitu... by appleskeptic on Friday November 24, 2023 @09:18AM (#38404184)
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.
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Re:Ex-owners of sex work site Backpage convicted of prostitu... by mcphage on Friday November 24, 2023 @11:29AM (#38405593)
> the people punished are usually horny, kind-of-sleazy guys

No, the people punished are usually the prostitutes.

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Re:Ex-owners of sex work site Backpage convicted of prostitu... by WarOnPrivacy on Friday November 24, 2023 @11:03AM (#38405279)
> 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.

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Re:Ex-owners of sex work site Backpage convicted of prostitu... by appleskeptic on Friday November 24, 2023 @11:19AM (#38405466)
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.
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Re:Ex-owners of sex work site Backpage convicted of prostitu... by mcpackieh on Friday November 24, 2023 @09:35AM (#38404362)
> 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.

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Re:Ex-owners of sex work site Backpage convicted of prostitu... by effingwewt on Friday November 24, 2023 @10:49AM (#38405109)
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.

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Re:Ex-owners of sex work site Backpage convicted of prostitu... by appleskeptic on Friday November 24, 2023 @11:22AM (#38405516)
It’s illegal in Canada, but only for the buyer. Which goes along with modern prohibition being an anti-man feminist thing.
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Re:Ex-owners of sex work site Backpage convicted of prostitu... by ulizzle on Friday November 24, 2023 @07:27PM (#38409914)
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

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Re:Ex-owners of sex work site Backpage convicted of prostitu... by JamesBarney on Saturday November 25, 2023 @01:31PM (#38415399)
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

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