Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Uncomfortable

After researching about feminism in the world I found an interesting articles about Germany. This article, published in 2005, was about the legalization of prostitution. I found this article to be quite disturbing because of the ability of a woman to lose her benefits because she did not feel comfortable selling her body in a brothel. I think that the original intention of this action was good. I would have made the conditions for the prostitutes better with "proper contracts, proper health insurance" but these benefit were never felt during the actual event. While instead of helping the prostitutes is hindered other women in the country, women were at risk of losing their benefits while unemployed because they did not take up jobs in the "sex trade." This is similar to The Handmaids Tale because in this new society women are no longer abused or raped and they are "equal" however these benefits are not really felt by the women. Insted the handmaids are restricted, controlled and subjugated. http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/jan/05013106.html

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