China regresses

Chinese Red Guard talibanites cuff and leash prostitutes like dogs (here and here).  Obviously, to a normal civilized person, this is a gross humiliation of these women, certainly a human rights violation; but in a country where during the next decade men will outnumber women by 24 million you can also condemn it on a cold utilitarian concern. Men already vastly outnumber women in China. I mean maybe men will increasingly be forced to spend their money on blowup dolls because of the lack of females. Clean, health-conscious prostitution (sex working) should be encouraged, not condemned and punished. But I guess you can’t expect too much from a country still reeling from the Maoist years, mandatory one-child rule (couples often abort or murder their female newborn), and that executes prisoners just to sell their organs.

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Related: This government atrocity almost ranks up there with the barbaric and  humiliating Islamic punishments of prisoners in Iran and Saudi Arabia and with American slave labor chain gangs here in the U.S.

Update: China progresses: “The Chinese government has called for an end to the public shaming of criminal suspects, a time-honored cudgel of Chinese law enforcement but one that has increasingly rattled the public.”

More of the current state of the human condition…

London brothel owners lug around their prostitutes in cages… Here.

Growing up in a hooker house

“The men didn’t frighten us, but my mother was very protective. The girls had a pimp, and I always felt he would intervene. He was very controlling, and at night he would keep vigil in the bathroom…And there were terrifying police raids in the night that woke us up with loud banging on the door. My mother would soothe us with hot milk and a biscuit. Her policy was never to tell us what was really going on — she covered up the police raids as if they were a treat. She never showed her emotions — I guess she buried most of the pain — but had the meanest temper, so we didn’t dare ask her anything.” Here.

The jobs are out there

“…She’s applied for every strait-laced office gig she can find — regardless of hours, pay or whether her University of California degree makes her absurdly overqualified. She went from being a manager to fighting for personal assistant positions. But last month, after innumerable unanswered cover letters, overdue bills and a delay in her unemployment checks, she entered a world of code words and cash wads. It was baptism by — bodily fluids: She peed on a guy in her own bed for $100. Since then, she’s been paid more times than she can count, or cares to count, for sex…” Read article here.

The nefarious female pimps of Iraq

“…That underworld is a place where nefarious female pimps hold sway, where impoverished mothers sell their teenage daughters into a sex market that believes females who reach the age of 20 are too old to fetch a good price. The youngest victims, some just 11 and 12, are sold for as much as $30,000, others for as little as $2,000. ‘The buying and selling of girls in Iraq, it’s like the trade in cattle,’” Hinda says. ‘I’ve seen mothers haggle with agents over the price of their daughters.’… ” Story here.

The pleasures of WWI

Man does not live in the trenches alone. Poison gas, machine guns and artillery bombardments could not keep these soldiers from their appointed rounds…”As dusk descended on the little French village, casting its shadows over the war-ravaged countryside all around, a British clergyman marched up to the door of the local brothel, pushed it open and strode…inside…” Read Sex and the Somme