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Catharine MacKinnon on Gender Crime

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I Love That I Chosen to Be a Prostitute

I'm saying there is this mythic attachment that men have in general in societies of sex inequality to the notion that selling yourselves for sex on a street corner is what freedom for women looks like. We have this almost obsessive fetishizing of what it is choice is, and she must be an example of it. And I'm saying that as a matter of reality, it is not accurate. It produces good press to go in public, to typically be paid to say "I love that I chose it, I want it"

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