The Bedia tribe in India apparently survives entirely off prostitution; the women are the breadwinners, and they train their daughters up to become prostitutes themselves, and having no daughters is considered "unlucky".
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Thought this was very cool up until the mentioned starting them as children 😨
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as... maybe gross as it is, I suspect the extreme desexualization of post puberty pre-18yo girls is a pretty new thing. For most of history it was more normalized and people of that age probably didn't register it as traumatic
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Don’t think Mario Lopez meant this as a family tradition? Ha ha. Love that it came right after your post
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The quote about the women preferring prostitution to marriage is interesting, reminds me of this quote that I came across in Andrea Dworkin’s essay on “the argument between wives and whores”:
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That seems a little too much like putting all of your eggs in a single basket, but maybe this particular basket is *that* reliable.
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