On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> there is a better chance a woman being
> brutalized by someone with whom she is in non-commodified relationship (a
> boyfriend or a husband) than by a 'john' in the commodified sexual act.
>
This is not only too much faith in the equality of buyer and seller in the
market, it is too bleak a view of most (physical and emotional) relations
between men and women to be taken seriously.
There is a very good reason for the 'socialist moralism' regarding
prostitution - it reflects the plebian horror of falling into poverty,
privation, dependency, lumpenization, etc. The middle class can afford a
more 'objective'view, and a more romantic one.
Bill Burgess
