Although the idea of marriage as a strategy for financial or social gain, or simply survival, was criticized in the 18th century, the absolute belief that love was a prerequisite for marriage still developed. Bailey said, however, that there is an expectation in marriage — until death do us part — and most people marry with this expectation that it will last forever. A prostitute is a way to outsource your sexual needs, but that`s it; They don`t care what happens when clothes are put back in place. The main interest of a prostitute is money, and as soon as the payment stops, the relationship also stops. The same is not true for marriage. Unless her family decides otherwise, a woman may find herself penniless if her husband files for divorce or if she seeks the difficult process of finding one. (The Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 required a woman to prove both her husband`s adultery and that he had cruelly treated, abandoned, or committed incest or bigamy.) Her legal rights to one of her children after the divorce were also limited. Jeffreys` book explores how sex trafficking went from a small, stealthy and vilified industry to an extremely profitable and legitimate industry. The text is therefore full of astonishing figures. There`s the fact that the striptease industry is worth at least $75 billion globally and brings in $15 billion in the U.S.
alone — more than baseball revenue. Or the detail that the company is now so successful and mainstream that it is covered by financial newspapers, with some companies, such as Beate Uhse – Germany`s most successful sex shop chain – listed on the stock exchange. «Prostitution is now an important market sector within economies,» she says with her usual open intensity. «The sex industry in the Netherlands, where [prostitution] is legalized, accounts for 5% of GDP.» Prabhupāda: Yes. That is their interpretation. Marriage, the Vedic śāstra commands marriage, and it is for prostitution. Just look at the interpretation. To all the great ṛṣis, they advised: «Yes, you can continue to prostitute yourself, with your prostitution, with the approval of the śāstra.» No, that`s not it. The real objective is restriction. This happened at a time when women`s power would have increased. Why should prostitution, striptease and pornography become more popular as women assume a more prominent public role? Jeffreys tells me that because women are now «able to say `no` to degrading sexual practices more often,» resorting to prostituted women is a way for men to retain their traditional privileges.
The women involved rarely make money from prostitution, she says, despite the widespread belief that the work is very lucrative for her. Jeffreys incorporates evidence from Australian and Canadian studies showing that the average annual salary of women prostituted in brothels is only £15,000. «We need to move this discussion away from feminist arguments about whether or not it`s harmful to women,» she says, «and see it as a massive, massive industry where profits don`t go to women. According to Kant, only if we have a right to another person can we have the right to use that person`s sexuality for our own selfish advantage. This happens through the contractual institution, marriage. Marriage is a relationship between two people that may involve sharing finances and sex, but it is not a direct exchange, and these aspects are not obligatory (marriage without sex is not a contradiction), related (you do not pay for sex per se, you contribute to a household), or sufficient (marriage is more than those two things). Commitment, not sex, is at the heart of marriage. Prostitution is done with payment in mind. It`s not mutual sex, just like your boyfriend making you coffee isn`t the same as the Starbucks barista making you coffee. In a marriage, you agree to stay after sex (engagement rings were originally developed to prevent men from inducing women to have sex with false wedding vows). Look at traditional vows and the practical arrangement behind them: many have argued that marriage is long-term prostitution, where women exchange sex for economic security.
Just as a woman of the night exchanges sexual favors for money, the woman exchanges the same in exchange for the ring, the house, and the family. Marriage and prostitution are among the limited options available to women to ensure they have access to money through men who control the vast majority of wealth and property. In marriage, a woman`s freedoms are legally more restricted than those of an unmarried sex worker. Those or you who venture into marriage vows with this easy and superficial affection are little more than legal prostitutes to me. Getting Married supplement with Charles Darwin`s delightful list of the pros and cons of marriage, Amelia Earhart`s remarkably progressive 1931 letter to her future husband, and Wendell Berry about what poetry teaches us about marriage. Bailey added that there is a legal requirement to marry in Jamaica and elsewhere. «Poverty is compatible with the pursuit of happiness of prostitutes and the men who visit them. In addition, prostitution is beneficial in a broader sense insofar as the availability of commercial sexual partners channels the excess male sexual energy of other men`s wives (thus preventing adultery) or involuntary sexual partners (thus preventing rape and sexual assault). In 1790, the English writer Mary Wollstonecraft argued that it was «legal prostitution» for women to «marry for help.» .