On Sailors and Prostitutes

by Little Miss Attila on August 23, 2010

Not in that way, you horrible people: Smitty’s talking about honoring ships that have served this country, and creating better options for women who have been—or might fall into—desperate circumstances.

{ 1 trackback }

Bumped: Philanthropic Outlets : The Other McCain
August 23, 2010 at 2:46 pm

{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

smitty August 23, 2010 at 2:47 pm

Thanks!

Reply

Peter August 24, 2010 at 2:24 am

One of my great grandfathers was a lawman who married a “working girl”. It’s funny, the men in my line of work used to marry women off “the line” a lot. In the last couple of generations that has stopped, probably because of too many long nosed administrators. I never met Great Grandmother Ida but family legend say that she was a helluva woman that covered every inch she stood on.

When I was a boy I got to shoot her old lemon squeezer Smith and Wesson .32. Back before X-rays and antibiotics, the old .32 was considered a man killer, it just took a while.

The transition from prostitute to “citizen” is harder today, I think. One, there is more of a societal “eye” on people. Back then, one could change towns and names and it was behind her. Back then if a woman stayed below the deadline in western towns or in the right districts in the eastern cities, a woman would be safe from arrest. And, at least in the west, women were scarce enough, right up until the first few decades of the 20th Century, a working girl could, if she so chose, find a husband who would treat her well. Often a lawman, the “fighting Earps”, for instance, all married prostitutes. Today, the arrests and fingerprints follow. The pimps are meaner, too and the drugs more addictive.

Now we lawmen marry nurses. Go figure.

Reply

Roxeanne de Luca August 24, 2010 at 5:46 am

One of the (many) things that bothers me about how the Left treats women these days is that they do not condemn prostitution and pornography; rather, they elevate it to “sex work” and claim that there are no issues with it so long as it’s voluntary.

Reply

nicholas August 24, 2010 at 7:16 pm

Well, they are not into making value judgments, except to judge anyone else making a value judgment. Extremely intolerant of anything that they would define as ‘intolerance’. It’s a real gasser! Same way about speech issues. Someone comes to give a public address at the invite of the institution? “Threaten violence. Shout them down. We will not hear it!!” Nor will they allow anyone else to hear it. Not really up for the free exchange of ideas, and yet they would view such behavior as exercising one’s right to free speech.

Reply

Leave a Comment

Previous post:

Next post: