Moral Judgement On Prostitutes

[vailpass]

So last night/this morning I had some people over. A friend brought a friend who, it turns out, is a high end prostitute. I don't roll like that, I pay for pussy in the traditional drinks and entertainment sort of way. This lady is beautiful, intelligent, and worldly. Great conversation but all I can think is "yeah but you're still a whore". Sharing this because bye week...

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I've never thought about this before, but how did prostitution ever become illegal?

Same Women's Temperance Union that brought about Prohibition.

At the turn of the century, so many of the US' ills were laid at the feet of philandering layabout men, laying in the street drunk, laying in opium dens blasted out of their gourd, laying in houses of ill repute in their refractory period, while women held down the fort at home with the 10 babies Catholicism [] foisted on them.

[GloucesterChief]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Same Women's Temperance Union that brought about Prohibition.

At the turn of the century, so many of the US' ills were laid at the feet of philandering layabout men, laying in the street drunk, laying in opium dens blasted out of their gourd, laying in houses of ill repute in their refractory period, while women held down the fort at home with the 10 babies Catholicism [] foisted on them.

The Temperance movement was actually a Protestant thing. The Catholics (Irish, Italians, and Eastern Europeans) were generally opposed.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by GloucesterChief

The Temperance movement was actually a Protestant thing. The Catholics (Irish, Italians, and Eastern Europeans) were generally opposed.

Yeah sure, but a Protestant brood of chitlins isn't as fun a stereotype.

Seriously though, the point was that wine, women and song were demonized because men weren't home caring for their kids.

MoF, the wet/dry Catholic/Protestant question is largely how FDR supplanted Al Smith in NY then national politics.