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Well, we’ve had birth control and abortions for, what, 60 years now?

Think about the collective experience of humanity before them. If you were a prostitute and got pregnant, it wasn’t about you, it was about that child’s experience as a fatherless individual, being raised by a person that can hardly provide for herself. As well as, what a child raised in that environment, is more inclined to do to other people.

Now that has changed if only because the link between sex and children, in most minds, has been broken. In those where it hasn’t… that’s the natural area where restrictions on birth control and abortion come from.

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What’s funny is prostitution was legal most of the time and in most places in the western world until recently. Widespread prohibition of it is not as much a holdover from medieval times as a recent sex-negative feminist innovation. Which makes sense when you consider that the people punished are usually horny, kind-of-sleazy guys.

> Widespread prohibition of it is .. a .. recent sex-negative feminist innovation.

I remember influential church culture as more theist than feminist. Maybe I'm experiencing a Mandela Effect.

It’s probably most accurate to say it’s an unspoken alliance between the two groups—feminists and traditional moralists. But when the church was actually politically powerful, prostitution was much less likely to be prohibited than it is now.

> the people punished are usually horny, kind-of-sleazy guys

No, the people punished are usually the prostitutes.

Historical rewriting liberal b.s. The Roman’s stripped you of citizenship if you were in any way involved in prostitution.

Only takes a quick Google search to confirm

I did a quick Google. Being a pimp was regarded as distasteful and had legal consequences so most rich people running a brothel used an intermediary freedman to manage his investment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_ancient_Rome

> What’s funny is prostitution was legal most of the time and in most places in the western world until recently.

That attitude towards prostitution closely correlates with those same societies considering women to be property. Anti-prostitution laws and the emancipation of women go hand-in-hand.

The idea that prohibition on prostitution is to combat fatherless could not be further from the truth.

The government in many avenues encourages and subsidizes fatherlessness in society in general, and the laws around prohibition were never contemplated, or even remotely idealized as an effort to combat the issue of fatherless homes.

I specifically said the collective experience of humanity before now (the average attitude over the last several thousand years). Nothing to do with our current government.

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