[Gothmog]

Try this quote:

"Donna M. Hughes, a professor of women's studies at the University of Rhode Island and an expert on sex trafficking, says that prostitution barely existed 12 years ago in the Soviet Union. 'It was suppressed by political structures. All the women had jobs.' But in the first years after the collapse of Soviet Communism, poverty in the former Soviet states soared. Young women -- many of them college-educated and married -- became easy believers in Hollywood-generated images of swaying palm trees in L.A."

Yes, the collapse of the USSR was bad for women because before the collapse there were hardly any prostitutes at all in the USSR -- "All the women had jobs."

Hughes has obviously never read the Gulag Archipelago. Not surprising that someone this clueless is employed by a University.

[GeronL]

"Donna M. Hughes, a professor of women's studies at the University of Rhode Island and an expert on sex trafficking, says that prostitution barely existed 12 years ago in the Soviet Union

I didn't buy that for a second either...