That’s the norm in most places with an income and technology level in a certain range. Canada has that.
You know, like socialised medicine.
To be honest that has the ring of the “constitutional” rights of the old Soviet republics and suchlike. I’ll believe Saudi Arabia isn’t a fascist shitpile of privilege and oppression when they actually do better at fighting that shit than Canada or Australia or Japan or the US.
Yeah, just because they wrote it down doesn’t make it reality
It doesn’t usually.
The headline alone will make you think of someone you know, guaranteed:
You know what I hate? That sex work is seen as a last resort to make money, when for some it is an actual, well-thought-out career choice.
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The same applies to anyone raised in our patriarchal society, when it comes to women.
This is from 1944’s “Broadway Melody”; these are the Ross Sisters. They’re very skilled and must’ve trained rigorously to be able to do what they do. But…DIDN’T ANYONE THINK SOME OF IT WAS A TAD OBSCENE? Some what they do makes me think of the Weird Sisters from Francis Ford Coppola’s “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”. Or is it just me?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn3ZGswnBas
Or even a bit suggestive? Then again, it was the Breen Office doing the censoring then.
Is that Solid Potato Salad?
Classic!!!
Edited to add: Yup!
Fucking yep:
I want to live in a world where a powerful man squiring around beautiful young women selected only for their looks is stigmatized and socially frowned on. I want to live in a world where using women as eye candy is universally seen as abnormal and problematic. I want to live in a world where a wealthy man who preys on young girls and then tries to get out of the charges by hiring powerful attorneys immediately loses all social respect, and has the book thrown at him.
Reading it now. I’ve always wondered why a marriage can be made null and void if the two partners do not have sexual intercourse. Excuse the pun, but what the fuck does the exchange of bodily fluids and lots of jangling of nervous system have to with a legal contract?
OH. RIGHT. Men, religion, and arrogance - because they all wanted it that way back when the biggest horse with the most armor was the equivalent of a Lexus SUV.
I’ve always thought similar influence was behind the idea of having to prove “love” in green card applications, when one would think reliability and commitment (no matter how strongly the flame burned) is what really matters.
I’m sure you know, but…
“Taking the virtue” of a woman is what’s at stake. She has no more value to a man if she’s lost her virginity, so if sex has occurred: “you broke it, you bought it”. If it can somehow be proven that sex has not occurred, then she’s still the chattel of her father and can be married off to some other man instead.
Because, the most important thing is that any babies are HIS, not anyone else’s. If a society can assure men that their women are only having sex with them within the bounds of marriage, then they know it’s worth supporting the dependents as their heirs.