
Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays Chapter 8 - The Traffic in Women
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Prostitution and the White Slave Trade
Our reformers say nothing about this cause. They know it well enough, but it doesn't pay to say anything about it. The women portrayed in the house of bondage belonged to the working class. Had the author portrayed the life of women in other spheres, he would have been confronted with the same state of af ars. Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work,. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay for her right to exist and keep a position in whatever line with sex favors.
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