Originally Posted by waitingtables

I'm not on any crusade to legalize prostitution, I just support legalising it. And I did not blame Dupre's parents, I stated that she was accustomed to the lifestyle that they introduced her to. I don't think that women are abusing men when men buy sex from them, that is utterly ridiculous. And not all men who solicit prostitutes are married, many are single.

The reason that prostitution is considered immoral, is the due to biblical morality, where a woman's sexual goods are reserved until marriage or her father loses out on his reputation and whatever money or property he would receive from his daughter's suitor. I cannot understand how a book such as the bible has not drawn more criticism for the clear lack of morality demonstrated in it towards an entire half of humanity. And the morality in it enforcing women's sexual slavery to men was imposed to meet the economic requirements of a rigidly male dominant system in which property is transmitted from father to son and that the benefits from women's and children's labor accrue to the male. Any woman in the bible who behaves as a sexually and economically free person is a threat to the entire social and economic fabric of a rigidly male dominated society. Such behaviour cannot be countenanced or the entire social and economic system would fall apart. And that is why we hear of the most extreme social and religious condemnations and the most extreme punishments, like stoning to death the adulteress who has now tarnished her husbands reputation.