How patriarchal norms and "free-market" neoliberal capitalism intersect...

[el_bryanto]

3. That is one of my main objections to prostitution

I have to admit it wasn't the first thing I thought of - being more concerned with the ongoing commodification of the female body. But once I thought of it, it's hard to avoid the logic. You consider how big business treats its employees and then you consider how they are likely to treat prostitutes once prostitution becomes a business . . . just seems like its open to all sorts of abuse.

In theory if we lived in a world in which the sexes were unquestionably treated equally, both legally and socially, and if we had a well managed humane capitalism or some other economic system that valued individuals, than possibly legalized prostitution could work - but that's not the world we live in now.

Bryant