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FeministWhore: Hi everybody. Okay, this is going to be a little comparison between the
anti-sex trafficking, um, propaganda of yore and the anti-sex trafficking propaganda of
today. And, starting with yore, weíll go toóaw, where the hell is this from? ***.
Itís from Google Books. Some old dude, I think it was 1911 this was published. Um,
Iíll get the link. Put it somewhere handy. I think the title of the book was ìThe Girl
Who Disappearsî but, uh, I will read to you.
[READING:] ìThis brings us to a vital, shameful fact, too little known to the general public,
but a fact policemen have impressed on them more and more every day; prostitution as it
exists as an international traffic and as a part of the life of every one of our big
American cities, is no a longer a WOMANíS trade; it is a MANíS trade. There are women
procurers, women importers, and women proprieters, it is true, but taken in the main the business
is carried on by men, stimulated far beyond its natural proportions by men, and much of
the profits are collected by men.
ìThe girl who disappears lives on somewhere in the under-world for the money profit of
men. These men who profit directly form the shame of women fall into two classesóprocurers
and protectors. The classes overlap one another and the men are often engaged in both ends
of the business. The procurer, or the ìcadetî as he is usually known, keeps up the supply
of women, which, except for his industrious labors, would fall far below its present volume.
For while it is undoubtedly true that women do adopt a voluntarily a life of immorality,
it is easy to prove that a large proportion of them must be forced or enticed into the
life. If women in large numbers were willing to become prostitutes it would not be necessary
to have such enormous machinery in order to recruit the ranks. The ìcadetî himself would
not be necessary. But so unwilling are women to debase themselves that the ìcadet,î the
dance hall, the Raines Law hotel, false marriages, drink, and even physical force are necessary
to keep the hideous thing alive.
ìThe American born cadet, of Irish, Italian, or Jewish extraction, as a rule, is a graduate
of the street gang. Usually he is familiar with the whole business of prostitution from
his early childhood, and became immoral himself before he was fifteen.
ìConsider a typical history, a youth whose childhood was spent in an Irish-American neighborhood
in the vicinity of Cherry Hill in New York. As the boy played around the front door of
his tenement or climbed the stairs to his home he was often accosted by showily dressed
women and girls who paid him liberally, according to his standards, to run errands to grocery
or corner saloon. While still pathetically young the boy learned the nature of the trade
of these women. he earned many quarters by standing on a saloon corner after school and
handling their business cards to men passersby.î
FeministWhore: [Laughing.] I love them old-timey books. Theyíre fun. *** written in the í20s.
Anything between, like, 1900 and 1930 is justówell, letís say 1935óitís just, like, awesome.
Awesome.
Okay, and whereís the one from today? [Laughing.] This is from Mark Lagan, who Iíve talked
about before, the head of the Polaris Project. I had titled thisóI wrote this blog entry
long before I ever read that book. I just read that part in that book, like, I dunno,
yesterday, yíknow. I just, yíknow, it blows my mind. Itís like the same exact ***, yíknow,
a hundred *** years ago, itís the same stuff that they write today. I titled it,
ìAnti-Sex-Trafficking Dude Calls Prostitutes ëNasty, Immoralí ó *** Not Shockedî
and it seemed important to me then, it seems important now, that dudes from the Bush administration
are in charge of all this ***, apparently. He had a blog post actually called ìReverse
the Stigma,î and he said:
[READING:] ìCalling women in general ëhosí is reprehensible. But let me go furtherócalling
actual prostitutED women and girls ëhosí is also reprehensible. By calling them ëhosí
one suggests that they are dirty and unworthy of societyís concern or acceptance; that
they are culpable for the NASTY, IMMORAL LIVES they are in; and that they have complete choice
in the matteróor ëagencyí as lawyers and scholars say. They may not have a choice.
We need cops, immigration officialsÖî
[LAUGHTER]
[READING:] ìÖhealth care providers, other first responders, and all citizens to entertain
the possibility that prostituted females may be sex trafficking victims. In any case they
are always human beings of equal value to everyone else.î
[LAUGHTER]
FeministWhore: That line up there, ìthey are culpable for the nasty, immoral lives
they are in,î ugh, see? Lagan thinks that just because he wraps it all up in a lot of
feminist jargon that he thought he learned that he can just hide that ìnasty, immoral
livesî bit in the middle there, and make it seem not what it is. He thinks prostitution
is nasty and immoral.
[Sigh.]
And, um, I guess thatís the end of my video. I just think thatís really neat. Go to Google
Books, Iíll leave you a link, for the right sort of searching to do. And, uh, entertain
yourselves. Okay, thatís it. Bye.