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Posted March 18, 2025 by NordicModelNow
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In honour of Women’s History Month we’re sharing this fascinating article about Josephine Butler, a pioneering Victorian feminist famous for her activism against the sex trade and the punitive, sexist laws known as the Contagious Diseases Acts.
“Josephine’s critique of the system of prostitution was based on her extensive work with women and girls involved in it and a lifetime of research into the systemic disadvantages that were the reality of women and girls’ lives.
She had widespread support from women who were impacted by the CDAs – including those who were then engaged in prostitution – most of whom had no or extremely limited resources for organised resistance. Without her intelligence, passion, resources and leadership it is quite possible we would now have a legalised system of prostitution in the UK like they have in Germany. What we have is flawed and dreadful in many ways, but at least we don’t have multi-storey brothels operating openly in every city centre and out of town industrial park like they do in Germany.
Academics who write her off as a middle-class do-gooder (and who similarly trash us) fail to understand prostitution as an institution of male dominance that subordinates all women – women as a collective or class – and that to bring about change requires collective resistance. Women currently involved in prostitution, women who have escaped the trade, working class, middle class, and upper-class women all have a stake in this fight.”