Canadian society is so backwards it considers men's clubs to be sexist and demeaning to women, despite the fact that in Asian countries, the employment situation is stacked against women, due to the sexism rampant in Asia.
There will never be a club where I could pay to date a woman and privately negotiate an arrangement for relationships that would be deemed prostitution in Canada.
Instead, it would be shut down as a brothel under our antiquated Canadian law, due to the misunderstanding that we have about sexwork in the 21st Century.
Instead, our laws about prostitution have facilitated the Picton serial killings and several unsolved serial killings involving prostitutes.
I have yet to hear of a serial killer targeting prostitutes in Malaysia or Thailand. Could this be a benefit of living in a Muslim country that has rejected wahhabism?
In any case, Canadian prostitution laws need to be thrown out because they actually lead to the high risks associated with the lifestyle. What Canada needs are sexworker friendly laws which protect the workers and make clients more socially responsible.
Though I cannot see this happening unless the bawdy house laws are thrown out and replaced by laws that protect brothels and sexworkers.
Until then, the serial killings of prositutes will continue unabated because the police forces in Canada are inept.
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Showing posts with label prostitution. Show all posts
20140127
Prostitution is the World's Oldest Religious Activity (satire)
Our current attitudes towards prostitution are due to social pressures going back millennia regarding sexuality. Few people acknowledge the role that social control plays in determining our attitudes towards prostitution.
Prostitution only became an unsavory profession because of the lies about them made up by religious zealots as a means of social control. However, prostitution used to be a religious function of temple priestesses for the cult of Astarte. Thus, religion used to be the mother of prostitution.
Indeed, the religious zealots' defamation of prostitution was done to control female sexuality. Once religion and prostitution were in bed together, now monotheistic pressure has separated them.
Today's religious zealots also borrowed the idea of marriage and virginity from pagan Roman practice. Prior to marriage, the ancient Roman bachelor party sometimes consisted of deflowering the wife to be by the husband's male friends, which may be related to the Astarte cult.
Hence, the decadent orgies of today's hedonism are merely revivals of old-time religion popular before the "heresies" called Christianity, Islam and Orthodox Judaism arose.
That which is secular is subtly pagan. That which is pagan has been adapted to monotheism.
Today, few prostitutes know of the religious origins of prostitution due to centuries of historical repression.
Perhaps sacred prostitution was all a metaphor for hedonism made holy.
In any case, prostitution is a complex issue which is viewed by civil authorities as a social problem with medical risks such as sexually transmitted diseases in these post-modern times.
This is why most countries will keep prostitution illegal, and thus control sexuality as a commodity.
Originally posted: June 4, 2007 10/00 PM
Prostitution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_prostitution
Sacred prostitution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_prostitution
Astarte: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astarte
Canadian justice minister rules out legalization:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/01/20/peter_mackay_rules_out_legalization_municipal_regulation_of_prostitution.html
Prostitution only became an unsavory profession because of the lies about them made up by religious zealots as a means of social control. However, prostitution used to be a religious function of temple priestesses for the cult of Astarte. Thus, religion used to be the mother of prostitution.
Indeed, the religious zealots' defamation of prostitution was done to control female sexuality. Once religion and prostitution were in bed together, now monotheistic pressure has separated them.
Today's religious zealots also borrowed the idea of marriage and virginity from pagan Roman practice. Prior to marriage, the ancient Roman bachelor party sometimes consisted of deflowering the wife to be by the husband's male friends, which may be related to the Astarte cult.
Hence, the decadent orgies of today's hedonism are merely revivals of old-time religion popular before the "heresies" called Christianity, Islam and Orthodox Judaism arose.
That which is secular is subtly pagan. That which is pagan has been adapted to monotheism.
Today, few prostitutes know of the religious origins of prostitution due to centuries of historical repression.
Perhaps sacred prostitution was all a metaphor for hedonism made holy.
In any case, prostitution is a complex issue which is viewed by civil authorities as a social problem with medical risks such as sexually transmitted diseases in these post-modern times.
This is why most countries will keep prostitution illegal, and thus control sexuality as a commodity.
Originally posted: June 4, 2007 10/00 PM
Prostitution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_prostitution
Sacred prostitution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_prostitution
Astarte: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astarte
Canadian justice minister rules out legalization:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/01/20/peter_mackay_rules_out_legalization_municipal_regulation_of_prostitution.html
20131201
An Open Letter to Prime Minister of Canada (satire)
To the Honorable Stephen Harper, Primie Minister of Canada and representative of Parliament, the Prime Minister's Office and all the taxpayers of the Dominion of Canada
You asked the Canadian taxpayers to bail out the Canadian auto industry, because its investors refused to pay more taxes and because its CEOs refused to put a ceiling on their salaries.
You secretly bailed out the banking industry for exactly the same reasons but denied it was a bailout.
Instead, you let these same CEOs and investors invent the lie that it was union wages that broke the back of Big Business in Canada, despite the enormous profits which leave the country to hide behind Grand Cayman and Swiss tax laws.
If Canada has a national debt, then it is not because labour is expensive. Rather, it is because Big Business in Canada refuses to put a ceiling on corporate executive salaries and has threatened to leave Canada should Ottawa raise corporate taxes even by 1%.
In my rhetoric, I will not use math to decry corporate greed is actually ruining the country. For math has been used to justify corporate salaries and balancing the budget. It has even been used to propose an American solution to Ottawa's fiscal woes, woes which are solely because of corporate greed and Big Business' ability to corrupt Canadian politics.
Instead, I present this open letter to you, Mr Harper.
What are you going to do about the immoral act of Big Business, which collects more taxpayers' money to pay its CEOs salaries than Canada's provinces have paid to legitimate people on welfare? In fact, CEOs get money to invest in putting a roof over their business. Yet most of those CEOs decry welfare moms despite the fact that most single mothers are more deserving of provincial benefits than CEOs are of taxpayers' money.
Yes, I know that part of business profits also contribute to CEO salaries. However, raising such salaries help bankrupt Big Business because they are often a bigger expense than workers' wages.
In short, the real reason why we have a huge national debt is because your salary and the salary of all your ministers and the PMO is a bigger expense than the salaries of your civil servants. Yes, I know the latter's salaries put together may be greater than you and your cronies are getting but your current senator scandal devalues civil servants' salaries.
Why are the taxpayers now having to cover senators' expenses?
I'm not proposing a solution to this problem because it cannot be fixed without more problems arising. Instead, I propose the following should be done because it is the right thing to do:
1) Continue funding of the Vancouver Onsite project. Your rhetoric in Parliament and that of your colleagues show that the elitism of plutocrats is the main reason for continuing the oppression of the poor, many of whom are drug users and/or homeless.
2) Dissolve the Narcotics Control Act. The war on drugs on Canada has only become another attack on the taxpayers by supporting immoral actions such as Green Teams and changes to the Canadian Criminal Code which almost makes entrapment legal.
According to the changes to the act regarding marijuana, if two or more friends and I were to start a pot dispensary, then the law deems us a "gang" and our distribution of medical marijuana as "drug trafficking" with a minimum fine of $1000 and at least 2 years in jail, even if we encourage non-violence and comply with provincial law.
3) Legalize prostitution. This will stop criminals from oppressing girls and women. You cannot legalize drugs without considering making prostitution legal. This too is harm reduction in action. I would rather a prostitute lower her hourly wage to under $50 a hour and get free medical checkup for STDs than continue the oppression of sex workers by letting them ensure another day of deplorable working conditions. In fact, Canadian provincial government should apply harm reduction to prostitution.
Suggestions 2 and 3 are my solution to the national debt. It would reduce drug crime. It would reduce crime related to prostitution.
Taxes collected from medical marijuana sales can go to marijuana rehabilitation programs and pay for pharmaceuticals such as mirtazapine which is a better sedative than THC or even the benzodiazepines, except for people allergic to anti-histamines. In those rare cases, I have to ask them, "Why would you even use cannabis when inhaling too much might kill you?"
Taxes collected from prostitution can fund medical care for them and even supply the wages to the needed security guards to provide protection from sexual deviants and psychopaths. As well, it would be a good idea to put the cannabis dispensaries within range of a brothel since the prices would be so affordable, it'd be like a bank robbery if a criminal robs the dispensary and like rape if a sexual psychopath tries to harm a prostitute.
As well, you need to listen to experts on psychopaths and sociopaths and implement their recommendations. You also need to pay close attention to pundits who decry character disturbances and narcissism. Then take a closer look in the mirror and get the senators and Parliament help now!
Sincerely,
A Canadian taxpayer, just like everyone else
You asked the Canadian taxpayers to bail out the Canadian auto industry, because its investors refused to pay more taxes and because its CEOs refused to put a ceiling on their salaries.
You secretly bailed out the banking industry for exactly the same reasons but denied it was a bailout.
Instead, you let these same CEOs and investors invent the lie that it was union wages that broke the back of Big Business in Canada, despite the enormous profits which leave the country to hide behind Grand Cayman and Swiss tax laws.
If Canada has a national debt, then it is not because labour is expensive. Rather, it is because Big Business in Canada refuses to put a ceiling on corporate executive salaries and has threatened to leave Canada should Ottawa raise corporate taxes even by 1%.
In my rhetoric, I will not use math to decry corporate greed is actually ruining the country. For math has been used to justify corporate salaries and balancing the budget. It has even been used to propose an American solution to Ottawa's fiscal woes, woes which are solely because of corporate greed and Big Business' ability to corrupt Canadian politics.
Instead, I present this open letter to you, Mr Harper.
What are you going to do about the immoral act of Big Business, which collects more taxpayers' money to pay its CEOs salaries than Canada's provinces have paid to legitimate people on welfare? In fact, CEOs get money to invest in putting a roof over their business. Yet most of those CEOs decry welfare moms despite the fact that most single mothers are more deserving of provincial benefits than CEOs are of taxpayers' money.
Yes, I know that part of business profits also contribute to CEO salaries. However, raising such salaries help bankrupt Big Business because they are often a bigger expense than workers' wages.
In short, the real reason why we have a huge national debt is because your salary and the salary of all your ministers and the PMO is a bigger expense than the salaries of your civil servants. Yes, I know the latter's salaries put together may be greater than you and your cronies are getting but your current senator scandal devalues civil servants' salaries.
Why are the taxpayers now having to cover senators' expenses?
I'm not proposing a solution to this problem because it cannot be fixed without more problems arising. Instead, I propose the following should be done because it is the right thing to do:
1) Continue funding of the Vancouver Onsite project. Your rhetoric in Parliament and that of your colleagues show that the elitism of plutocrats is the main reason for continuing the oppression of the poor, many of whom are drug users and/or homeless.
2) Dissolve the Narcotics Control Act. The war on drugs on Canada has only become another attack on the taxpayers by supporting immoral actions such as Green Teams and changes to the Canadian Criminal Code which almost makes entrapment legal.
According to the changes to the act regarding marijuana, if two or more friends and I were to start a pot dispensary, then the law deems us a "gang" and our distribution of medical marijuana as "drug trafficking" with a minimum fine of $1000 and at least 2 years in jail, even if we encourage non-violence and comply with provincial law.
3) Legalize prostitution. This will stop criminals from oppressing girls and women. You cannot legalize drugs without considering making prostitution legal. This too is harm reduction in action. I would rather a prostitute lower her hourly wage to under $50 a hour and get free medical checkup for STDs than continue the oppression of sex workers by letting them ensure another day of deplorable working conditions. In fact, Canadian provincial government should apply harm reduction to prostitution.
Suggestions 2 and 3 are my solution to the national debt. It would reduce drug crime. It would reduce crime related to prostitution.
Taxes collected from medical marijuana sales can go to marijuana rehabilitation programs and pay for pharmaceuticals such as mirtazapine which is a better sedative than THC or even the benzodiazepines, except for people allergic to anti-histamines. In those rare cases, I have to ask them, "Why would you even use cannabis when inhaling too much might kill you?"
Taxes collected from prostitution can fund medical care for them and even supply the wages to the needed security guards to provide protection from sexual deviants and psychopaths. As well, it would be a good idea to put the cannabis dispensaries within range of a brothel since the prices would be so affordable, it'd be like a bank robbery if a criminal robs the dispensary and like rape if a sexual psychopath tries to harm a prostitute.
As well, you need to listen to experts on psychopaths and sociopaths and implement their recommendations. You also need to pay close attention to pundits who decry character disturbances and narcissism. Then take a closer look in the mirror and get the senators and Parliament help now!
Sincerely,
A Canadian taxpayer, just like everyone else
20121223
The Plight of Male Prostitutes
In respect to prostitution, boys are sexually abused at an earlier age
than girls. When they enter prostitution, they also enter it at an
earlier age than girls (8-10 vs 12-18 for girls).
However, male prostitutes are not always gay. They may also be bisexual and heterosexual, even if their main customers are male.
Indeed, male prostitution do not perform gay sex. Usually they are receivers of anal sex.
Yes, they are sodomized.
And that means that male prostitutes are more at-risk than female prostitutes.
Why? Because girls and women can get out of prostitution before age 18.
This is because male prostitutes do not want to risk how the STate treats them if they try to get out of the industry before age 18.
Usually this leads to the chaos of foster care.
Foster care usually will violate the rights of male prostitutes to a stable and secure home since most foster parents do not understand male prostitution.
What we need are safe homes for male prostitutes who want out.
But it won't happen in a society whose feminists will object to this misogynist and sexist rant.
Ergo we need an egalitarian society that supports gender equality transition. The privileges of feminism versus the privileges of the patriarchy only continues an unnecessary gender war.
However, male prostitutes are not always gay. They may also be bisexual and heterosexual, even if their main customers are male.
Indeed, male prostitution do not perform gay sex. Usually they are receivers of anal sex.
Yes, they are sodomized.
And that means that male prostitutes are more at-risk than female prostitutes.
Why? Because girls and women can get out of prostitution before age 18.
This is because male prostitutes do not want to risk how the STate treats them if they try to get out of the industry before age 18.
Usually this leads to the chaos of foster care.
Foster care usually will violate the rights of male prostitutes to a stable and secure home since most foster parents do not understand male prostitution.
What we need are safe homes for male prostitutes who want out.
But it won't happen in a society whose feminists will object to this misogynist and sexist rant.
Ergo we need an egalitarian society that supports gender equality transition. The privileges of feminism versus the privileges of the patriarchy only continues an unnecessary gender war.
India Practices Double Standard Regarding Prostitution
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - An Indian state on Friday rejected a proposal by prostitutes to pay tax to the government in return for stopping police raids on brothels and checks on soliciting clients.
Officials in the eastern state of West Bengal said since prostitution was illegal, the government could not tax sex workers.
"Tomorrow, criminals will say we will pay taxes so don't catch us," Raj Kanojia, a top state police officer, said.
On Thursday, the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC) -- an umbrella group of 65,000 sex workers in West Bengal -- announced that prostitutes would charge clients extra to help them pay tax.
"Even if we collect one rupee from each client it would boost the exchequer," Smarajit Jana, DMSC's chief adviser, said. "Let the government collect taxes legally, as prostitutes in any case pay the police hefty amounts to get away."
About four million clients visit red light areas under the control of DMSC every month in West Bengal.
Sex workers say they are harassed by police and picked up from brothels, hotels and nightclubs and jailed. They often have to pay bribes to officers to continue working.
Under Indian law, sex workers cannot solicit customers in public. Authorities tolerate brothels in some areas although police often raid them to rescue minors or to prevent women from being forced into the profession.
Prostitutes are already being "taxed" by crooked cops. Either accept their taxes or crack down on crooked cops, India!
Officials in the eastern state of West Bengal said since prostitution was illegal, the government could not tax sex workers.
"Tomorrow, criminals will say we will pay taxes so don't catch us," Raj Kanojia, a top state police officer, said.
On Thursday, the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC) -- an umbrella group of 65,000 sex workers in West Bengal -- announced that prostitutes would charge clients extra to help them pay tax.
"Even if we collect one rupee from each client it would boost the exchequer," Smarajit Jana, DMSC's chief adviser, said. "Let the government collect taxes legally, as prostitutes in any case pay the police hefty amounts to get away."
About four million clients visit red light areas under the control of DMSC every month in West Bengal.
Sex workers say they are harassed by police and picked up from brothels, hotels and nightclubs and jailed. They often have to pay bribes to officers to continue working.
Under Indian law, sex workers cannot solicit customers in public. Authorities tolerate brothels in some areas although police often raid them to rescue minors or to prevent women from being forced into the profession.
Prostitutes are already being "taxed" by crooked cops. Either accept their taxes or crack down on crooked cops, India!
Ethnic Solidarity in Fostering
Nothing in this blog entry is expert opinion but is based on observation of the effects of foster families. Hence it is biased and needs a rewrite. So if after you read this article and object to anything I recommend or say, then I urge you to comment to me.
It's not to hard to get a Gmail account and to become a GooglePlus member when that restricts comments. However, I am not a firm believer in perpetuating the evils of open comments, because the goods of rational discussion are not supported by the evils of spamming, and darkly negative comments which stop discussion dead.
Essentially, the family's cohesiveness ought never be challenged by the State. For the consequences of State involvement in the break-up of family are worse than the immediate situation IF and only IF the family is so dysfunctional that the children's security and safety are at threat.
During the interview to become a foster parent, it is up to the social worker to get a complete picture of the foster parents, his or her parents, and how everyone grew up. This thus will involve family therapists, and other mental health professionals. As it stands now, the gaping holes in the process leading up to being a foster parent need to be repaired.
Making these statements about foster parenting is in no way 'attacking' good foster parents. It is merely asking of social workers to enhance the security of family and the security of fostering. If this is actually done now, and my words are not in touch with today, then my words only show that I expect the process to continue to weed out "bad" parents.
One warning sign of "bad" parenting is when the social worker asks the question, "How are things going on in the home?" and there is an awkward silence followed by "Fine", "Things are alright and Sally is doing well", and "I really like it here. Thanks." Yet the foster parents and the foster child assigned to the home are not making eye contact with the workers.
If this is an Asian family with an Asian children, then the cultural trait of deference should be assumed. If they were suspected of having problems, then it's important to then say, "Well, off the record, are there problem between you, Joe and you, Jane?" and then after a minute, "How about you, Sally?" Finally, individual interviews need to be taken to help avoid the tendency for family groups to "put the lid on rotten garbage".
I actually encourage ethnic solidarity to be the practice of social workers. A lot of the problems in foster families is that the cultural milieu of the foster home may be at odds with the culture in which the child grew up. When the child is between 12 and 18, cultural traits are already hardwired and therefore, there will always be confrontation between the foster parents and the child being fostered. Therefore it is recommended that the child be matched by cultural origin, before other criteria are added to ensure fostering avoids the pitfall of any underlying agenda to continue the cycle of patriarchy.
Ethnic solidarity implies that both the child's cultural traits and the foster parents' traits match. When they do not match, then the foster parents are disqualified. Thus the home must be Asian if the child is Asian. However, the parents may be Asian or non-Asians who have adopted most of the Asian cultural traits through assimilation in an Asian community or country. This is not a racialist priotity; this is a multicultural priority.
Objection to this ethnic solidarity may be that any family is good enough to the child when his or her needs are met. I would argue that without a good ethnic match, the foster parents will rarely get the foster child from observing their family rules when the child has had a relax set of rules made arbitarily.
If you want confirmation of that, check out The World's Strictest Parents on Youtube.
It's not to hard to get a Gmail account and to become a GooglePlus member when that restricts comments. However, I am not a firm believer in perpetuating the evils of open comments, because the goods of rational discussion are not supported by the evils of spamming, and darkly negative comments which stop discussion dead.
Essentially, the family's cohesiveness ought never be challenged by the State. For the consequences of State involvement in the break-up of family are worse than the immediate situation IF and only IF the family is so dysfunctional that the children's security and safety are at threat.
During the interview to become a foster parent, it is up to the social worker to get a complete picture of the foster parents, his or her parents, and how everyone grew up. This thus will involve family therapists, and other mental health professionals. As it stands now, the gaping holes in the process leading up to being a foster parent need to be repaired.
Making these statements about foster parenting is in no way 'attacking' good foster parents. It is merely asking of social workers to enhance the security of family and the security of fostering. If this is actually done now, and my words are not in touch with today, then my words only show that I expect the process to continue to weed out "bad" parents.
One warning sign of "bad" parenting is when the social worker asks the question, "How are things going on in the home?" and there is an awkward silence followed by "Fine", "Things are alright and Sally is doing well", and "I really like it here. Thanks." Yet the foster parents and the foster child assigned to the home are not making eye contact with the workers.
If this is an Asian family with an Asian children, then the cultural trait of deference should be assumed. If they were suspected of having problems, then it's important to then say, "Well, off the record, are there problem between you, Joe and you, Jane?" and then after a minute, "How about you, Sally?" Finally, individual interviews need to be taken to help avoid the tendency for family groups to "put the lid on rotten garbage".
I actually encourage ethnic solidarity to be the practice of social workers. A lot of the problems in foster families is that the cultural milieu of the foster home may be at odds with the culture in which the child grew up. When the child is between 12 and 18, cultural traits are already hardwired and therefore, there will always be confrontation between the foster parents and the child being fostered. Therefore it is recommended that the child be matched by cultural origin, before other criteria are added to ensure fostering avoids the pitfall of any underlying agenda to continue the cycle of patriarchy.
Ethnic solidarity implies that both the child's cultural traits and the foster parents' traits match. When they do not match, then the foster parents are disqualified. Thus the home must be Asian if the child is Asian. However, the parents may be Asian or non-Asians who have adopted most of the Asian cultural traits through assimilation in an Asian community or country. This is not a racialist priotity; this is a multicultural priority.
Objection to this ethnic solidarity may be that any family is good enough to the child when his or her needs are met. I would argue that without a good ethnic match, the foster parents will rarely get the foster child from observing their family rules when the child has had a relax set of rules made arbitarily.
If you want confirmation of that, check out The World's Strictest Parents on Youtube.
20120422
Hash Brownies Dangers Overblown
The worst that could happen after overconsumption of hash brownies is you won't have enough $$ to pay what the hooker wants. Then you will wake up a day later, and slowly realize that you offered to pay your mom money for sex. Sometimes during the past 24 hours, you both were busted for miscellaneous drug charges i.e. the cops could smell all those brownies you ate. Oh, and you hallucinated the "I paid my mom for sex" part!
Ok this is hyperbole. The imaginary 'you' I refer to is not the gentle reader.
My attempt to make eating hash brownies seem as awful as paying for sex is the combination of inadequate rest and the feeling that 420 day in Vancouver is getting too big for its locale.
:
Ok this is hyperbole. The imaginary 'you' I refer to is not the gentle reader.
My attempt to make eating hash brownies seem as awful as paying for sex is the combination of inadequate rest and the feeling that 420 day in Vancouver is getting too big for its locale.
:
20120307
The Story of John
da story of john
dis John, he pay $800 for a ho.
dis john, he los' his virginity to her
dis John, he hadda hear her chant "hurry.up.and.cum" alla time.
dis John, she got his money's worth in orgasm.
dis John, he never cum — (ok he did but by hand with dat ho twisting his nipples!)
end of john
dis John, he pay $800 for a ho.
dis john, he los' his virginity to her
dis John, he hadda hear her chant "hurry.up.and.cum" alla time.
dis John, she got his money's worth in orgasm.
dis John, he never cum — (ok he did but by hand with dat ho twisting his nipples!)
end of john
20071211
The Metaphor of Little Red Riding Hood
"From this story one learns that children, especially young lasses, pretty, courteous and well-bred, do very wrong to listen to strangers, And it is not an unheard thing if the Wolf is thereby provided with his dinner. I say Wolf, for all wolves are not of the same sort; there is one kind with an amenable disposition — neither noisy, nor hateful, nor angry, but tame, obliging and gentle, following the young maids in the streets, even into their homes. Alas! Who does not know that these gentle wolves are of all such creatures the most dangerous!" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Red_Riding_Hood#Pre-Perrault
Nice men are depicted as the most dangerous of men by Little Red Riding Hood because they might be a threat to innocent young women's virtue.
Thus, women are anxious of such men because they wish to "keep a reputation" i.e. have sex after marriage.
Yet, another interpretation of nice men is presented here:
Red Riding Hood has also been seen as a parable of sexual maturity. In this interpretation, the red cloak symbolizes the blood of the menstrual cycle and the entry into puberty, braving the "dark forest" of womanhood. Or the cloak could symbolize the hymen (earlier versions of the tale generally do not state that the cloak is red--the word "red" in the title may refer to the girl's hair color or a nickname). In this case, the wolf threatens the girl's virginity. The anthropomorphic wolf symbolizes a man, who could be a lover, seducer or sexual predator. This differs from the ritual explanation in that the entry into adulthood is biologically, not socially, determined. -- ibid
How can a man truly be a wolf, unless he is only after one thing? Yet, what if he never truly wants it?
Then, he is a gentleman for not getting what he wants: consensual sex with a willing woman?
So, this tale says a lot about society itself by promoting anxiety and fear of nice guys in young women to protect their goodness.
Thus Little Red Riding Hood is a story about our anxiety over increasing infertility of post-modern society in developed countries.
20070310
Police Claim Madam was "Making Too Much Money"
Apart from employing illegal immigrants, the only reason why a Vancouver madam was raided was she was making too much money, according to police.
My guess is, local businesses were jealous she could make so much money, while they lost business.
However, it cost anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000 to make the raid, because VPD were involved.
What a waste of taxpayers' money!
I would rather police work to reduce such crime non-violently. That's what immigration is for. This was more of an Immigration Canada issue.
The cops botched this raid from the get-go.
My guess is, local businesses were jealous she could make so much money, while they lost business.
However, it cost anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000 to make the raid, because VPD were involved.
What a waste of taxpayers' money!
I would rather police work to reduce such crime non-violently. That's what immigration is for. This was more of an Immigration Canada issue.
The cops botched this raid from the get-go.
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