[appleskeptic]

What’s funny is prostitution was legal most of the time and in most places in the western world until recently. Widespread prohibition of it is not as much a holdover from medieval times as a recent sex-negative feminist innovation. Which makes sense when you consider that the people punished are usually horny, kind-of-sleazy guys.

[WarOnPrivacy]

> Widespread prohibition of it is .. a .. recent sex-negative feminist innovation.

I remember influential church culture as more theist than feminist. Maybe I'm experiencing a Mandela Effect.

[appleskeptic]

It’s probably most accurate to say it’s an unspoken alliance between the two groups—feminists and traditional moralists. But when the church was actually politically powerful, prostitution was much less likely to be prohibited than it is now.

[mcphage]

> the people punished are usually horny, kind-of-sleazy guys

No, the people punished are usually the prostitutes.

[ulizzle]

Historical rewriting liberal b.s. The Roman’s stripped you of citizenship if you were in any way involved in prostitution.

Only takes a quick Google search to confirm

[JamesBarney]

I did a quick Google. Being a pimp was regarded as distasteful and had legal consequences so most rich people running a brothel used an intermediary freedman to manage his investment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_ancient_Rome

[mcpackieh]

> What’s funny is prostitution was legal most of the time and in most places in the western world until recently.

That attitude towards prostitution closely correlates with those same societies considering women to be property. Anti-prostitution laws and the emancipation of women go hand-in-hand.