
Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays Chapter 8 - The Traffic in Women
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The Importance of Prostitution
Prostitution was organized into guilds presided over by a brothel queen. These guilds employed strikes as a medium of improving their condition and keeping a standard price. Pope sixtus the fourth was more practical. From one single brothel which he himself had built, he received an income of 20 thousand ducats. It would be one sided and extremely superficial to maintain that the economic factor is the only cause of prostitution. There are others, no less important and vital. That too, are ref mers know, but dare discuss even less than the institution that saps the very life out of both men and women.
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