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What is wrong with prostitution cannot be fixed by moving it indoors. The same harms are there whether she is in a trick's house, a back alley, his car, or a room at a hotel. And the same physical violence occurs whether it is in a pimp's massage parlor, the private booth of a pimp's strip club, a pimp's legal brothel, or on a pimp's street turf. The same psychological violence occurs indoors, too--none of that changes based on the location of the prostitution. She still gets called those vicious names while he is masturbating in her, those names that as one woman said, "cut you like a knife,” so that she has to get high or she must dissociate to tune out the poison. Weitzer's apologetics for and evasions of this reality cannot obscure it or change it. |
