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277 - Prostitution: The History and Morality of Sex Work

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

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The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Comfort Stations

In 1927, the law for combating venereal diseases decriminalized prostitution in Germany. The new Soviet government believed that since the causes could be diagnosed as purely economic, the remedy lay in economic solutions. Working girls are now sent away to labor camps where they are trained as nurses or reeducated in other traits that they don't get to choose. I would rather be exploited to death in a capitalistic regime than live a soulless communist who shadowed a life. But hopefully they'll be too ashamed to talk about it until long after I'm dead.

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