Re: NOW and Marxism

["Eliyanna (Erin) Kaiser" <erin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Generally speaking, on that list and other lists that involve some of the
> M-F principals past and present (Cox, Henwood, Kathe Pollitt), some of the
> most passionate exchanges have been over "sex work" (ie., prostitution)
> and pornography. Unless I am missing something, those sorts of issues have
> very little to do with the everyday concerns of working women, but address
> more the wing of the feminist movement that can recite Foucault chapter
> and verse.


I'd have to also disagree with you about that. The sex industry is a
multi-billion dollar industry in this country. The National Task Force on
Prostitution estimates that over one million women work as prostitutes in
the USA (or about 1% of American women). This does not include the millions
more that are employed as strippers, phone sex workers, massage parlour
women, pornography or erotic photography models, or perhaps even in the
BDSM industry. In short, we are talking about A LOT of people.

I, for one, worked as a street hustler (prostitute) for a significant chunk
of my life. I don't think I am unusual. If Marxists can not see the sex
industry as anything more than the concerns of that "wing of the feminist
movement that can recite Foucault chapter and verse" we are in even bigger
trouble than I feared.

Eliyanna







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