They are also hurting themselves in the process. A recent report published by the British Foreign Office, “British Behavior Abroad,” noted that in a 12-month period in 2006 and 2007, 602 Britons were hospitalized and 28 raped in Greece, and that 1,591 died in Spain and 2,032 were arrested there.

Those stupid lecherous British women are always hurting themselves by getting raped and shit. When will all those stupid women come around and stop raping themselves already?

http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_080508WAB_men_charged_prostitution_KS.1a804ea8.html

King5 makes themselves very difficult to reach. The contact link is on this page. Choose whether you want to yell at them for the story or for the article:

http://www.king5.com/helpcenter/

Finally, the proper phone number is (206) 448-5555. I’m sure they’d love y’alls opinions.

Nicely put, Justme, except I’d add “…she’s suddenly ‘engaged in prostitution’ and therefore the ‘customers’ magically stop being pedophiles having sex with minors.”

Which I’d have thought would be the *real* story, especially given the findings in Debra Boyer’s recently released “Who Pays the Price? Assessment of Youth Involvement in Prostitution in Seattle.”

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Also, sorry if I painted you as a “people who,” Twisty. I’ve been reading up on the original “white slavery” laws lately and it’s had me out of sorts. The common perception of prostitutes-as-thralls was used as a *defense* by early 20th-Century traffickers and pimps. The trick being to get the prostituted victim on the stand and demonstrate that if she wasn’t completely mindless then prostitution had to have been her idea. (The trick worked well enough that judges sometimes scolded juries for acquitting pimps.) And so whether they’re for it (pimps, customers) or against it (evangelicals, scandal-sheet journalists, slasher-movie writers) I’m just a little impatient with folks who keep pushing that “fallen-and-she-can’t-get-up” view of prostitution. They make what’s too often a bad situation worse.

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You know, the same way cattle are engaged in the meatpacking industry.

The trick to let the perpetrator off the hook is to turn “victim” into a bad word. In this trick being victimized means being a “mindless, will-less sap”. Having shamed the victims into denying their victimization, the perpetrators are magically disappeared.

Oh come on. I have never portrayed a prostituted woman as a “mindless, will-less sap” in my life. My argument is this, and this alone: no woman has full human agency or personal bodily sovereignty in this world. Happy hookers don’t get a special immunity-from-patriarchy pass any more than mothers or teachers or presidential candidates do.