"The Truth
About White Slavery"
Recently,
one of our long time sex worker
rights activists, Carol Leigh (who
coined the term "sex worker" years
ago) came across this amazing
article from a century ago, on the
Columbia University website under
'gender and sexuality'
archives. "The
more things change, the more
they stay the same"
is very appropriate here.

Published
June, 1913, in The
English Review (as in "UK"), and
written by Teresa Billington-Greig (click on link to
view article as pdf), this
article could have been written in
the present time to describe the
current situation in the US and the
rest of the world. Only the names
have changed- those who crusaded
against prostitution back then, are
all dead. Unfortunately the crusade
and the lies told by today's
abolitionists are exactly the same.
Then
as now, it is a crusade fueled by
sexual hysteria and promoted by the
radical left/ progressives and
religious conservatives who don't
give a fig about sex workers (or
prostitutes, as we were called back
then) and are only concerned with
promoting their false 'trafficking'
narrative to impose their moral and/
or social agenda on the rest of us.
The lies the anti- prostitution
groups told one hundred years ago
and tell now in 2014 continue to
harm those whom these abolitionists
claim to want to help.
The
lies haven't changed one bit. They
are the same old tired fabrications
created by people who have a limited
imagination but an unlimited
capacity for telling tall tales
without a shred of evidence to back
up their claims; horrific stories of
virginal young women kidnapped
in broad daylight and forced into
brothels. Back then, it was the
'motor-car' which
helped facilitate the alleged
kidnappings and 'trappings'- but
today, it is the internet- and
'craigslist,' 'backpage' and
all the other social media
sites which makes it possible
for sex workers to advertise their
services- and which are deemed to be
the facilitators of 'sex
trafficking.' 
The author has a very
colorful and charming way of calling
the "alarmist
campaigners"
liars- she says "The
truth is that the structure
erected by the neuropaths*
and prudes
is reduced
to ashes. They are
convicted of
getting legislation by false
pretences. These
dabblers in
debauchery by word of mouth
have given us a shocking
exhibition of unlicensed
slander." [to which we
say a hearty "AMEN, sister,
AMEN!"] [*neuropath
was another word for
'psychopaths' and
'sociopaths' - which is an
excellent way to describe
abolitionists past and
present! Two such
abolitionists immediately
come to mind who, in my
opinion, so closely
resemble this description-
Melissa Farley and Donna
Hughes- our very own dear
American neuropaths, as
well as the recently
exposed Cambodian 'victim
pimp' Somaly Mam being
another for whom this is,
again in my own personal
opinion, an accurate
adjective; and not to
forget Bradley Myles and
his ever inaccurate count
of 'potential victims
referenced' phone calls
taken by his faith based Polaris
Project which brought
him and his toadies over
$7 MILLION in 2012...
or Dominique Roe- Sepowitz
of the also faith based
re-education camp at
Project ROSE... there are
SO MANY of these
neuropaths it is difficult
to remember all their
names and tax-payer funded
rescue and re-educate
pogroms... ]
Says
Ms. Billington- Greig:
"To
all the previous evidence we may
add these statistics, the
weight of which is entirely
against the alarmist campaigners.
Indeed, they are now left the
choice of two unpleasant
admissions: either the Act has
failed to achieve the
chief purpose for which it was
passed, or there was no
need to pass it!"
To
the foregoing weighty
pronouncements we must add the
equally weighty opinion of
Assistant Commissioner F. S.
Bullock, the Central Authority in
England for the Repression of the
White Slave Traffic. I was
referred to him by Mr. Arthur Lee,
M.P. when I asked for
authentication of statements made
in the Commons. I am afraid that
there is little support for Mr.
Lee's views in Mr. Bullock's reply
to my questions.
He
says: "I cannot call
to mind a single case of the
forcible trapping of a girl or
a woman by drugs, false
messages, or physical force
during the last ten years that
has been authenticated or
proved. I should say such
cases were very rare indeed
.... The average number of
cases of procuration in London
is about three per annum, and
none of these are really cases
of trapping."
["trapping"
was what these same 'alarmist
campaigners' now call
"trafficking"]
Admittedly,
Ms. Billington-Grieg does call
prostitution "evil"- but then, this
was a time in our history when ALL
types of sex outside of marriage
were considered 'evil' - including
masturbation. Fighting the 'scourge'
of masturbation was a companion
battle against all sorts of
'immoral' and 'anti-social' sex acts
and interracial relationships. The
puritan/moralists and the feminists/
progressives certainly had their
hands full fighting sin and keeping
the poor in their place! And
both groups of moral/social
busybodies were also fighting to
prohibit alcohol- to mold America
into their dream utopia - where
women remained at home taking care
of their family, and men neither
drank, or smoked or committed
adultery... or masturbated in
private. Everyone would be as pure
as Ivory soap...
But
regardless of how she personally
viewed prostitution, she and her
colleagues understood that the
crusade to 'eliminate' or abolish
prostitution was not ever going to
be successful, and that by making up
statistics without evidence and
creating false stories about an
endless number of women and girls
'trapped' into prostitution was NOT
a way to help ANYONE!
She
states:
"The two police court workers
approached are entirely without
knowledge of this phase of evil.
Mr. Thomas Holmes of the Howard
Association, and twenty-three
years a Police Court Missionary,
replies with "Never" twice
repeated. He writes; 'You will
notice that I say that I have
never known of a girl being
trapped. I have never even
heard of one, excepting through
common report. I have had
nearly thirty years' connection
with the police courts; the
prisons and the sweated women of
London, and my own conviction
is that the matter is grossly
exaggerated.'
Mrs. Eleanor Carey,
sixteen years Police Court
Missionary and Probation Officer
at Thames Police Court, is equally
emphatic. She says: 'In every case known
to me of a girl being dragged
down to life in a brothel, she
has been a willing though
blind and misguided victim ....
I have never found reason to
believe that any girl is ever
forcibly carried off.' The
statistics kindly supplied by a
number of Chief Constables
complete the
destruction of this campaign
of sedulously cultivated
sexual hysterics..."
Oh,
if only cops were as "honest" (sarcasm)
now as they were back then... but
now, unfortunately, the federal
government is in on the "campaign
of sedulously cultivated sexual
hysterics" 'anti- trafficking'
scheme in a GRAND
way and offers funding to law
enforcement agencies to keep up the
destructive and fraudulent campaign-
the 21st century War on
Whores. [Which is why Denver CO. Vice
Lieutenant Aaron Sanchez so
earnestly says "Prostitutes
are not friendly. It’s not like
you’re talking to a child-abuse
victim or a fifteen-year-old sex
assault victim who wants to cry
out and wants to explain what
happened or is just scared. These
girls just flat out say, ‘Nope,
that’s NOT what’s happening.’ We have to
help them realize they are
victims"- because otherwise we
don't get all that federal grant
money to spend investigating whores, which is much
safer for us than looking for
REAL criminals such as the
hundreds of thousands rapists
whose victims reported the
crimes and have asked for help
but we just don't have the
resources or inclination
to pursue them!]
Apparently NONE of
these prostitution abolitionists are
aware of the past failure of this
same idiotic crusade, because
if they are aware of it
and still consider it within the
realm of possibility to 'eradicate
all commercial sex' through
their absurd 'End the
Demand' campaign, we
would have to consider them to be
the epitome of insanity as
defined by the brilliant Albert
Einstein: "insanity
is doing the same thing over
and over again and expecting
different results." It is very
disheartening to think that our
governments and media outlets
are being run by people who, in
centuries past, would have been
locked up in an asylum for being
too dangerous to live among us.
Nicholas Kristof, are you
listening?
The
original pdf of this article can be
found here: Columbia.edu
gender and sexuality
I cleaned it up (by
removing the black down the center
of each scanned page and highlighted
the important quotes. There are a
few pages missing from this
document- 433 to 438- which may have
been deliberately left out if they
were ads. If anyone knows where we
can find a complete version, please
contact me normajeanalmodovar [@]
gmail.com
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