| Denying the progress of sexual freedoms over the last 300 years can only come from an exclusively male/white/adult/heterosexual perspective. Some freedoms that quickly come to mind: the right NOT to have sex (rape within marriage, or of slaves, was legal. Other rape laws were largely unenforced) gay sex, interracial marriage (and sex), sex among teenagers Access to pornography is legal, and vastly easier due to technical reasons than in the past. Women have been recognised as sexual beings equal to men, and their pleasure is no longer ignored. The possibility to have sex and not get pregnant arose and became easier. So did abortion. Norms around age of consent were lowered. Specifically for prostitution: It's a point of heated debate in the feminist community if the liberalisation in, for example, some European countries actually led to better working conditions and less human trafficking. That's why that community, which advocated for legalisation in the past, is now split on the subject. It's just not clear if legalisation was successful. |
Huh? I'd say "raised".