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Red Light District: an urban area concentrated in sex work
Madam,
wealthy female who provided apartments to sex workers for compensation
SEX SELLS
Today, prostitution is not legal in the US, yet sex is one of the most profitable businesses in the country.
As a result, gender roles are changing...
We live in a country in which we are told to accept everyone for who they are, yet many of the nation's laws oppress our own citizens.
Younger generations of American children are constantly exposed to sexual matter and gender roles alternate than what they are used to.
Though church and state are legally separate in the United States, religion has influenced and continues to influence the country's laws, especially those regarding citizens' sexuality.
Iwan Bloch:
women lacked sexual desire if they were physically and mentally healthy
Sigmund Freud:
women only partake in sex to reproduce
Richard von Krafft-Ebing:
sex plays a major role in the function of human beings' existence
"Women were merely the chattel of men, but through the course of human history have, thanks in part to Christianity, become individual beings, with rights and freedoms of their own... though they are still socially below man." -Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Today's US homes consist of different types families.
EX) same-sex couples, single parent, multi-generation etc.
The government promotes alternative lifestyles through media, influencing the masses, yet laws have not adapted to fit the changes.
LINGERING EFFECTS
(as of 2011)
Then...
NOW...
Do we let religion justify legal discrimination?
Should laws be adapted accounting for non-traditional lifestyles?