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
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It omr wommifd tier** racy now tupposed to
become pump ami pusher to iti ho\warti men
ami nomrn * A nr son madff
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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
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