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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1996)
Legal whoring epitomizes capitalist evil I attorn! wan! Wind after reading your "Prastt lotion' editorial fan It) SodiUurbed wm I by tout manifesto, I bad lo lain the lime 1o dm oestrus t your absurdity paragraph by paragraph t want you In know that t am not a habitual stickler The litla. * Prostitut ion sting raise* legal, moral question*." la provot alive, a* though whoever wrote the article attuallv considered legal and moral lama* before writing it Prostitution is ilia* gat. and (he officer* who performed tha «ttog were enforcing I he law* of our hurg in a timely and butt fashion \M'* proceed to the moral question Is prustitu tion immoral f Strangely, the writer does not poae that question tn tact, you seem to avoid relating to the i«w from a moral standpoint by tteating it a* a prartt tal matter At waste of time and money " w«* your cold appraisal of the sting The article mads like a litany of ills related to prostitution includ mg rape, emotional abuse, drug addiction and AIDS, yet you boldly proc laim it to be a “victim less crime " Hell, you practkally call It an "eco nomic opportunity!” Then, your stab at an Interpretation of Ameri can moral code from a staunc h feminist stand point show* only how disconnected you are from your countrymen Whore* do carry an occupational stigma, it's true And most Americans, including myself, think of whore* as "impure" or "fallen' woman Thai Is because a person so misled and hurt and confused by the world that she attaches a price lag to her body, her soul, her innocence, her inti macy. her love, and her desire, and sell it to any cruel stranger who has the buck* to f—, demands our sorrow and our pity tf you want to lie indignant about women being treated like property, don't point at us, friend Walk up two blotJis from my house and talk to the discriminating shoppers who dicker over the cost of a blow job or an hour of her lime When “we" arrest these people, "we" are vain ly acting out our heartfelt horror at tie tog such a cruel and spiteful race Nobody believes that an arrest is a re» vie, but in order to live with ourselves we must enure*,* our disapproval. If only symbolically l will also question the effectiveness. If nek the existence, of "community outreach program*'' for prostitute* A homeless activist informed me that there is only one women's shelter in hugene. and it is for haltered women II—————.— It omr wommifd tier** racy now tupposed to become pump ami pusher to iti ho\warti men ami nomrn * A nr son madff -99 A* for tagalinng prostitution in rorted districts, which dMd do have In mind’ I think you would have a hard lim* < onvim mg people that their wivaa and children would ho perfectly ft<»f» in such a district Your tragic m t »ulutenuan ding of thi* imuo an encapaulaled in thl» sentence "Like other bust nwwoa, »oft sellers would need to ho Ikensad by tho uty ' In ono casual phrase you attempt to iegitimi** whoring a* selling imply that the i ommm cal trade of human ftosh I* ju»t ’tike any other iHiftinoaa" and tujypeti that the people * yovemmern not only condone hut coordinate it” I* out wounded democracy now supposed to hot owe pimp and pother to iU wayward men and womenf Are you mad” Your conclusions about the honafit* we would map from tht« institutional slavery am ludicrous How many time* a day do you think the aver age prostitute is esposwd to STt>»’ Now multiply that by »0. and tell me again how monthly letting will "curb the tpread of «e*ualty transmitted dl* ease*" Do you honestly believe that letting women toll their bodies lessen* their dependent a oo abusive men ’ Who, in your mind, are they selling their bodies to* A* for providing “a way out." you must have forgotten ihe million* of lowincome families who can't afford to tend their daughters to col lege legalised prostitution would be the "way out" tor these pour, uneducated and under employed woman lastly and most importantly, using ~mt.ma.setI la* revenue’ as a viable mason he institutional t*®d flesh peddling is one of the coldest, cruelest and darkest iustifit atoms of capitalist evil that ever blurred iheve puled ears You are the < ampus newspaper, and I want to I rust you to be thoughtful, sensitive and sincere Fleam think about these things a* you disaemi nate your opinions to this community fonah Howard is a Vnreanity student and modern of the Whiteaket neighborhood iPizza Pipeline Cet the real real < Ul4k %«'»>!<«• «IIMl «a tails I ike”* Eugene Hotline I SI • |S| S 824 Charnelton Street 69 ► (while supplies tost) at the J'SDJlJ Concert J* Tickets *«*a*»U *T t*y ««ie»A>*C A*»5 »!»*>« II I A Coming this w«ek; > Jon 22 Dub Syndicate „—..$8.00 Jon 24 Poremenl_$10.00 MO J> FebI Hope_ $12.00 Feb 2 Cherry Popprn Doddtes...$6 00 Feb 4 Austin lounge lizards_$7 00 Feb 4 Mcloyswn Might-- $8.50 ee*Mi ____$9516 P <mim t?/$4 $0 Feb JO Love lode......$3.00 Feb 10 ISA Dinner & Donee_,.$10 00 Feb 13 Willie Borceno...$5 00 *dmn/VMit Feb 23 BobBrounon.. $7.00 Aba mmMtk Hult Center Tickets Greyhound Bus Tickets you* mmowApi tutrum n*v>cf*. miw hqw to pwovtpf hhyk?m that MMTT9yRMiMLLWg»fiiPiASiL?iyMyAiyE
