Believe it or not, brothels were widespread and prostitution largely legal up until the end of World War II. So why were they outlawed?
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I was looking up the official excuse for why prostitution is illegal when I stumbled upon the video heading up the article (
The African Union, I'm not sure what the relevance is) I did not know and find it interesting that the African Union had fighting colonialism (white supremacy) at its core then after left-wing/soft power white supremacy got rid of Mugabe, It decided to more or less ignore that and address the symptoms of white supremacy instead.
Damn.
PS – I think the main, real reason prostitution is illegal is it gives women too much power. Eventually, they would have done away with the "male pimp" (hiring men only for protection [or prostitution]) and they would've built empires.