moonstarfem

so embarrassing how many self proclaimed leftists/communists/anarchists are prioritising individual feelings and identity over structural class analysis based on material reality and dont realise that is in fact liberal ideology lmao

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a reasonable society would base their entire economy around this

I’ve said this before but there has never been a single patriarchal society in existence, including and especially the most ultra-conservative ones you can think of, that didn’t have an established prostitution culture. And this isn’t because prostitution is a counterculture reaction against conservative patriarchal values. It’s because strict morality codes governing women’s behaviour don’t just confine the women who fit within them, it keeps a class of ‘fallen women’ who cannot escape a life of sexual exploitation, by design, helping men categorise the different types of ways they can exploit women.  The “wh*re” is just as much a patriarchal invention as the “madonna”.

I agree and it’s 100% true. Law student here from a middle eastern country (Iran). Here there is actually a sneaky halal way to get wh*res without the negative implication and surprise surprise is completely legal and even encouraged to do instead of having normal relationships and that is called temporarily marriages (Sighe). In Shia sharia to get married to someone and be mahram (someone you can be hijab-free( father, brother, uncle) or have sex with (husband)) you just need say 2 Arabic sentences which mostly asks for the woman’s hand in marriage and her acceptance and for it to be legally binding the woman’s father or paternal grandfather should give permission (if the woman has not been married before). At the same time the law and sharia require the husband to pay for some sort of money to the wife (which is determined by the woman as well). In normal marriages (which last for life) this monetary right( called mahrieh) is mostly forgotten and never paid since it can be over millions of dollars ( yup ) but here it gets juicy so bare with me. In temporarily marriages the johns give the prostituted woman mahrieh and just say those Arabic sentences with some (completely halal) alterations that specifies the time and duration of the marriages which can be anything from a minute to years and decades. This is completely fine legally and religiously and a lot of muslim johns use this loophole. I can even provide you with groups and chats on Telegram app that matches (pimps) these women with johns. Why I call this prostitution and not some sort of unofficial Tinder? Cause the younger, the paler, the curvier, the more inexperienced the woman is. the more money is on the table as for her mahrieh. ( btw most pimps say that the marriage should not last for more than 1 hour so yeah). Hope it helps the op to prove her/his point.

I'm beginning to come to the conclusion that men are incapable of empathy or love if it doesn't benefit them in some way.

so you agree? women are pressured to perform femininity to avoid ostracization from society?? and you identify as nb to escape all that???

:(((((

“Amber Rayne” was her porn name. Let’s remember her as Meghan Wren, another of the real women chewed up and spit out by an industry that cares more about capitalising on men’s sexual entitlement than about even passingly acknowledging the humanity of the women left in its wake.

Exhibit 1989