Thursday, July 21, 2005

Excuse Me

The Peoria Police Department are giving dating tips to help prevent prostitution:
If your wife is not meeting your needs, try meeting hers. It can do wonders. No wife at home? Try finding a decent woman whom you can love, cherish and respect and then make her your wife. If you are not willing to put in that kind of effort, try a dinner and a movie.

Windypundit comments:
So, we should barter for sex with food and entertainment instead of doing a straight cash deal?

Okay, the comment is funny and facetious.

But it reminded me of some feminist theory I read in undergrad, the theory that marriage is actually a form of legalized prostitution. The concept is hardly new, Mary Wollstonecraft supported it a couple of centuries back. Apparently, the Peoria PD finds it somewhat applicable to modern life?

The problem I have with the theory is it presupposes a stereotype: women wouldn't do it unless they're paid, but men will pay anything for it, be it cash, security, freedom, whatever.

Hmm. Sorry. Facts not supported by the evidence.

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