Catharine MacKinnon Quotes
How about this? Stop arresting prostitutes, and start using the 13th amendment against pimps.
The 13th Amendment prohibited slavery, and she argues that if pimps who force prostitutes to work for them were arrested and prosecuted for slavery, a much more serious crime, it would discourage the pimps and in her view greatly reduce prostitution. Critics argue that other mechanism for the commercial organization of prostitution would replace the pimps. However, the critics have not been able to refute the notion that pimps were the most socially undesirable and criminal elements of prostitution merchandising, and eliminating pimping would be constructive even if there were no change in the number of prostitutes.
Catharine MacKinnon, Attorney and Legal Scholar, Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws, 2005
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Modern slavery involved forced prostitution, child labor and various forms of indentured servitude together with importing illegal workers and threatening to have them deported if they complain or go public about their slave labor conditions.
The sexual exploitation of female slaves by the slave owner and/or his relatives was a phenomenon about which most Southerners were in denial. Light skinned and even white babies, born to Negro slaves was fairly common. The gross immorality was so great that it was too painful for most Southerners – especially white females to even contemplate much less discuss. At the same time, the abolitionists had to be very careful that to raise this problem as delicately as possible lest the lost their audience with such gross and indelicate behavior. This quotation was particularly artfully phrased.
Most nations have laws against human trafficking and its manifestations. Those laws are not very intensely enforced in most countries including America as the needed investigatory resources are intensive and human trafficking is not among the most important priorities of most law enforcement agencies.
See {642028} & {642029} for another quotation relating to this terrible abuse.
Catharine Alice MacKinnon is an American radical feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, and the James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. From 2008 to 2012, she was the special gender adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
