Prostitution: Prostitution might appear to be an odd topic for historical inquiry. As "the world's oldest profession," concerned with buying and selling something as "natural" and "unchanging" as sex, it might seem to have no history. However, prostitution is subject to historical change and is shaped by the society in which it exists. In the United States, over the last couple hundred years, the nature of prostitution and the experiences of people working as prostitutes …
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…take her out for a meal, if her daddy's poor you can do what you feel" This concept exists and needs to be changed and one way to do that would be to legalize prostitution, to bring it out into the broad light of day and see how silly the price we pay for Puritanism really is. Women need to be respected. Laws governing women's bodies need to be repealed. Prostitution needs to be legalized.