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To: wideawake

Wow you can really ignore history. I don’t think I ever once referred to the constitution or what it said about prostitution yea or nay. I believe my point was that the Founding Fathers had a different attitude about prostitution than the evangelical view that developed during the early 20th century. While there were other evangelical movements before then none of those movements made prostitution largely illegal. Your mistaken about legal prostitution in the US before the 20th century as most medium to large cities had legal brothels until the Civil War had brothels and they begin to fall in popularity after the war in the east but remain popular in the West until the religious movements I referred to earlier.

Now you have begun to try to insult me in your last post I expect better I also expect you to go do some reading on the subject before posting again. I have cited that Washington DC during the time of the Founding Fathers had legal brothels I can do the same for every major city in thew late 18th and early 19th century if you like however I would prefer you cited something or someone of merit on the subject that contradicts me. If not please refrain from coming back at me with the statement “You are wrong” please prove me wrong if you can.


195 posted on 05/09/2007 4:32:41 PM PDT by sentis1
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To: sentis1
I believe my point was that the Founding Fathers had a different attitude about prostitution than the evangelical view that developed during the early 20th century. While there were other evangelical movements before then none of those movements made prostitution largely illegal.

Prostitution was generally illegal in the US before the 20th century dawned.

231 posted on 05/10/2007 5:25:33 AM PDT by wideawake
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