Gloria Steinem Quotes
We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor.
Steinem, Gloria. Moving Beyond Words. Simon & Schuster, 1994.
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.
Many leaders of nations are in denial about this problem which exists almost everywhere. In Israel, the problem is compounded because the very orthodox Jews and Muslims both come from a tradition where women are allocated a place subservient to men in many ways and to some (like some Christians) there is a perceived duty to discipline wives and daughters. So reform involves religious tradition and theology.
The foreign, mostly communist country, officials when they were visiting the United States would be secretly photographed with Claudia and other young “agents” who would be “procured” by CIA agents who were secretly developing a relationship with the officials. Many adult women were also used. The CIA would then blackmail the officials and get them to spy for us. The documentation on Ms. Mullins statement is not from any government or official sources. So we cannot be certain that it is authentic. However, the documents on all the CIA activities of the period have not been declassified yet, and the CIA will not deny that they trained and used young children as sexual bait. So we have decided to include the quotation with this caution.
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.
Alsop wrote much about the Maryland and Chesapeake area of Colonial America. At the time many indentured servants emigrated to America, but the male to female ratio was 6 to 1. The women in effect had a great advantage and often could marry rich planters or others that they chose—not possible for women in England.
Gloria Marie Steinem is an American feminist journalist and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
