From: "Steve Harris" <sbharris@ix.RETICULATEDOBJECTcom.com> Newsgroups: sci.med.prostate.prostatitis,sci.med,misc.health.alternative, soc.men,alt.romance Subject: Re: An Ejaculation a Day May Keep Prostate Cancer at Bay Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:49:42 -0700 Message-ID: <bf6ul8$qde$1@slb3.atl.mindspring.net> "nethead8" <nethead8@cox.net> wrote in message news:lICRa.11273$u51.10818@fed1read05... > My take: Male masturbation is condemned and is taboo for the reverse > reasons female masturbation is encouraged. Women's advocates encourage > women masturbating because it "empowers" women, and men are cut out of > the picture entirely. But if that's the case, it holds true for men > also...... Men are gaining satisfaction without having to supplicate > themselves to a woman and their whims. And to a lot of women, that's no > good. They lose the power that they hold over men that way. COMMENT: That's also the only reason I can think of why prostitution is still illegal everyplace in the U.S. (excepting minor counties in Nevada). It certainly isn't illegal in order to protect prostitutes-- we all know that prostitutes suffer greatly from having no legal recourse to getting robbed, beat up, raped, etc-- all due to being unable to file proper complaints that legal business people can do when they are hurt by customers. Nobody appears to care. So there must be some other reason for these bizarre laws which make illegal prostitution very dangerous. Disease and public health surveillance and control is easier if it's legal (just as pharm labs are less danger fire-wise than illegal meth labs). So what gives? Subconscious female voter dislike of anything that looks like competition at cut-rate prices, is the only reason I can think of. No male-only population would ever vote prostitution into illegality. Prostitution is competition, because the unfortunate way of the world is that sex is hardly ever as free as it may look in the short term. Some years ago, Charlie Sheen became notorious when it found he was a frequent user of Heidi Fleiss's establishment. "But," the press asked him, "you're a young, handsome, and rich movie star, so why should you *pay* for sex?" Sheen: "You don't get it. I'd don't pay them to have sex with me. I pay them to *go home* afterwards..." SBH From: "Steve Harris" <sbharris@ix.RETICULATEDOBJECTcom.com> Newsgroups: sci.med,misc.health.alternative,soc.men Subject: Re: An Ejaculation a Day May Keep Prostate Cancer at Bay Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 15:39:21 -0700 Message-ID: <bfchao$o5k$1@slb6.atl.mindspring.net> Sometimes it was, sometimes not. The Women's Suffrage movement was fueled almost exclusively on antiprostitution and temperance political themes, and after women got the vote, prostitution got banned almost as fast as alcohol in many places in this country (it was a real patchwork before 1920, but not for long after 1920). The difference is that the blue laws that had to do with alcohol have slowly been repealed since women got the vote. But economic considerations have (except in empty parts of Nevada) largely prevented the same thing from happening to anti-prostitution laws. Of course, prostitution was almost never illegal in Western frontier towns where men greatly outnumbered women, and it is not in the US Army to this day (where adultery actually IS a military code violation). In WW II the Army merely licensed brothels. I don't know what they do in foreign ports these days, but it does involve looking the other way. Though of course they still can't talk about it. Some commander after a soldier rape of civilian in Japan not too many years ago said that the man should instead have hired a prostitute, and he promptly lost his job. So much for reminding tender-eared civilians about Army life. I'm guessing that before 1920 the female influence, even non-voting, was enough to keep it illegal in larger cities, and wherever "syphillization" was. Some places succeeded in voting themselves "dry" before 1920, also. SBH "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote in message news:bfcadl$ngt$1@panix2.panix.com... > Steve Harris <sbharris@ix.RETICULATEDOBJECTcom.com> wrote: > > Subconscious female voter dislike of anything that looks like > > competition at cut-rate prices, is the only reason I can think of. No > > male-only population would ever vote prostitution into illegality. > > But prostitution was illegal back before women had the vote. |