Re: [FACTS] Germany, or "Oh no not again"

[Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>]

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                          SANDY SANDFORT
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C'punks,

On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, Bill Stewart wrote:

> ABTW, they didn't need those laws to fight "white slavery"; kidnapping
> and rape were already illegal, but any opportunity to make a law....

I have a tiny correction to Bill's assumption and that of a few
others who have commented on "white slavery."  The laws in 
question were concerned with prostitution, not kidnapping or 
rape.  The term "white slavery" arose because the social fiction
was that these women could not possibly have been prostitutes by
choice, they must have been forced into it by others.  A current
variation of this thinking is promoted by some anti porn
"feminists" with regard to women in the adult movie industry.
("No one would do THAT, in front of a camera, for money, of their 
own free will.")

Plus ca change . . .


 S a n d y

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