GIVE ME YOUR HANDS

[lesbianherstorian]

clippings from “women seeking women” personal ads in the baltimore sun, 1995

[melisica]

Girl, Interrupted (1999)

[elaenathedefiant]

countries where prostitution is legal have higher rates of human trafficking. that’s like an actual fact. not an opinion or anything. so tbh it seems a bit ‘swerfy’ to completely ignore that

[darthvatrix]

Why would trafficking increase when you have legalized prostitution.

[aneurysmsandanalogues]

Because if prostitution is legal, demand increases. And if it is legal, pimps and traffickers have more room to exploit and sell women under the guise of legal sex work.

In fact, in countries where it is legal, pimps and brothel owners are considered sex workers themselves.

[gorgonology]

Just because you legalize prostitution doesn’t mean women are going to be anymore willing to do it, but more men expect to go to prostitutes, so the demand for prostitution increases. Where do you get prostitutes if women aren’t willing to be them? you kidnap and traffick them!! 

[thereallifesnowwhite]

Thank you for explaining this so concisely. I always thought trafficking would decrease if prostitution was legalized, so this is good to know.

[tr1angl3]

it’s worth pointing out that Germany, who’s always touted as very progressive for legalizing prostitution and instituting prostitution unions, has become the human trafficking hub of Europe since those laws were implemented.

[kopfkinoes]

In 2009, there were around 900 victims of human trafficking in the Netherlands. In 2017, there were over 6000 and this number is estimated to fall prey to human trafficking every year. Over 4000 are sex slaves and over 1000 are children. This is getting progressively worse. I honestly cannot believe people aren’t educated that this legalization adds to an increase in human trafficking. Isn’t it obvious that’s how the world works? Also, men don’t care. I remember a post over here with men that were going to prostituted children and one of them was saying “I don’t care to know how the sausage is made”. That should tell you everything you need to know if you’re still having doubts about which side of the barricade you should choose. 

[notcisjustwoman]

The notes on this post gave me 17 types of cancer. The fucking mental gymnastics people will pull to justify men’s right to pay to rape women is just staggering.

[pwussy-cult]

because C̹ͭͬ̿̉ H̛̬̤̰̭̹̅ͪ̅͑̃͂͛͜ Ơ̖͕̞̾̀̌͌ I̴̷̲͍̩̫ͪ Ç̦͎͈̥͈͕̰̾̀͆̅̅̈ͫ̀ Ẽ̡̳̗̳͔̞ͬͯ͐̇ͯͤ̀̌

[lesbianherstorian]

jeanne cordova and her girlfriend janie elvin, who met in high school and reunited in college. jeanne was president of the los angeles chapter of the daughters of bilitis, and later became editor and publisher of the lesbian tide. photographer unkown, 1969

[wishbzne-deactivated20210526]

hatred of women, cassandra troyan

[wishbzne-deactivated20210526]

mercy, andrea dworkin

[antigonick]

“It’s impossible not to remember wild and want it back.”

— Mary Oliver, excerpt of “Green, Green is my Sister’s House”, in A Thousand Mornings

[sad-small-violet]

I’m going to get my gun licence pew pew

[artistsbooksandmultiples]

Jenny Holzer Die Fast and Quiet New York City, USA: Danspace Project, [c1985] 38 x 46 cm. Edition of 26

[woundgallery]

Tracey Emin A Hole is a Hole , 2005 embroidery on fabric 7½ x 9½in. (19 x 24cm.)

[shesnake]

The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook

[medusanevertalks]

“They reclassify healthy adult female flesh as “cellulite,” an invented “condition” that was imported into the United States by Vogue only in 1973; they refer to this texture as “disfiguring,” “unsightly,” “polluted with toxins.” Before 1973, it was normal female flesh.”

— Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth; 1990

[antiplondon]

“Why does a 13 year-old prostituted child with no experience command a price 100 times that of a 23 year-old with ten years of experience and in what other ‘profession’ does your value decrease the more experienced you are?”

— SM Berg at Radfem Repost (via antiporn-activist)

[transparebcy]

tarot • transparent

[isaybelow]

[quiet-nymph]

[kasaruna]

White Oleander (2002)