101mike101 wrote:Perhaps this is why so many male politicians in government are so set against such women and have traditionally tried to suppress them and control their sexuality by forcing them to commit themselves to one man only.
Such women are politically dangerous for the establishment, unless they are suppressed, criminalized, and controlled.
It's not only men. Though as oppressive patriarchal societies are the most common in the West, they have more influence and power to 'keep women in their place' (as they would express it). That's the classic 'kinder, kuche, kirche'' Right-wing take.
But if you consider the editorial stance and house position of almost all of the so-called liberal media (all Centre-Liberal, most of Left-Liberal), you don't get any further, because all they do is seek to reshuffle the innate injustices of Capitalism as we have it, so that a few more middle-class women get to occupy a few more seats at the top, instead of making coherent and forceful arguments against all the fundamental-structural anti-women biases that are built into that system.
So you see a constant flow of articles on the subject of 'what percentage of women are CEOs at big corporations?', and little or nothing on 'why are women not paid for all the unpaid domestic work they do that keeps Capitalism going?', or 'why are sex-workers considered literal outlaws (often criminalized for practicing), excluded from welfare and social protections workers in other industries get (sick pay, paternity pay, etc)?', and blocked from accessing mortgages, health insurance and all the rest of those things that people in other ('normal') employment get to take for granted?'.
They don't want to touch that. Because that burned-in middle-class squeamishness and moral prudishness (that 'nice girls don't') is always one leap ahead in their calculations than any superficial attachment to liberal appearances.
(Well that came out as a bit of a rant, and almost entirely off-topic. Sorry OP!).
But there you are. It's wrong and needs to be challenged and changed. Try to be a part of that. Sex Work Is Work.