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History of Feminism

Deep13

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9. When I was in Beirut last summer, I heard there was a city further north...

Reply to redqueen (Reply #8)

Fri Mar 14, 2014, 09:34 PM

Mar 2014

in Lebanon with legalized prostitution. I also heard most of the workers came from the South East Asia and weren't necessarily volunteers. That isn't limited to sex workers, though. When the professor invited our small class to her lavish apartment, I was surprised to find two Malaysian live-in servant women there.

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*Real Men Don't* Campaign [View all] Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2014 OP

Oh, Jesus! ... Obviously! Deep13 Mar 2014 #1

"... a brothel where all the women or girls are from somewhere else, they're slaves." redqueen Mar 2014 #8

When I was in Beirut last summer, I heard there was a city further north... Deep13 Mar 2014 #9

Real men don't buy other human beings, period. geek tragedy Mar 2014 #2

The comments in the link also say that, too. Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2014 #3

+1 redqueen Mar 2014 #6

While I don't object to the ideas of the campaign F4lconF16 Mar 2014 #4

I think a lowest possible expectation of "manliness" is that a real man doesn't buy another person. Squinch Mar 2014 #5

I couldn't agree more that this isn't about men's feeling's. F4lconF16 Mar 2014 #10

I conceive of it as synonymous with "a mature, decent adult" nt geek tragedy Mar 2014 #7