It isn’t the world’s oldest profession. The world’s oldest profession is apathy.
Those who, when confronted with wrongdoing or injustice or abuse — and prostitution can be any one of those things, or all of them — just, you know, shrug.
“It’s been around for a long time,” they say. “There’s got to be a good reason for that.”
And then they go back to sleep.
The recent Supreme Court of Canada decision is just that: Apathetic (and pathetic). It’s dressed up in all sorts of legal finery and high-sounding words, to be sure. But, when distilled to its base elements, it just sort of gives up. Young girls being coerced into trafficking their bodies? Women being traded like commodities, and beaten and battered and worse? Innocence being lost to dirty old men, who care nothing for anything except their own grimy desires?
Who cares. The highest court in the land certainly doesn’t seem to care. (more...)
And some see opportunity:
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