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Salient. Special. Vol. XVII, No. 17. September 1st, 1953

Second-Hand Prostitution

Second-Hand Prostitution.

"I go down to a magazine stall. What do I see? Sixty-seven varieties of Love and Romance comics I pick one up and flick it open a young girl is in the wirle arms of her man I drop the come a Young couple walk up buy a few shillings worth and wander off arm in arm.

"I'm waiting for my tram in front of me is a hording advertising an electric razer what do! see A half-clad woman appealing to me to buy it.

"I pick up paper again. Turn to the news section. Record number of rapes this week. Shocking rise in sex crimes All high in prostitution.

"What is this prostitution? The selling of your body to another We all know what that means. But are there grades of prostituion? is there such a thing as prostitution at second hand?

"When our social elite visit night-clubs what do they go to see? The costumes?... When those kids bought the comics what were they learning to look for? The moral at the end? . . . What has a beautiful woman to do with an electric razer?

K Mervyn Taylor Crestion Wood Engraving

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We are pleased to publish this thought-provoking article originally written for "Critic" of Otago University by Paul Oestreicher, an honours Political Science student born in Germany in dignity emended form the article has now been reprinted for "Salient" at Otago. He join the author in inviting critical comment but ask correspondents to keep to the issues raised with reasonable brevity.

Ed.

"Sure we have second hand prostitution. Everywhere cheap sex is on sale "And how does it the up with first hand prostitution rape and sex crimes? The answer is in conditioning. Thrust any idea long enough at people ant they will come to accept It. The idea being thrust: at us is that womankind is only an instrument for the satisfaction of men's appetiles. Woman's dignity the dignity of motherhood has been ignored and her other qualities kept well in the background.

"And what has happended? We have accepted these standards women included and our behaviour has suffered accordingly."