{"id":959,"date":"2014-06-07T17:46:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T17:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/?page_id=959"},"modified":"2014-06-21T14:30:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T14:30:57","slug":"tradesexualityforsurvival","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/tradesexualityforsurvival\/","title":{"rendered":"tradesexualityforsurvival"},"content":{"rendered":"

It became clear to me that, like many other women, I was raised to trade sexuality for survival, or some advantage (i.e., a good husband or boyfriend). As a result of the combination of slut stigma, training to trade sex<\/a> for security or survival and fear of rape (the likelihood of which supposedly increased if one was promiscuous<\/a>), women were often in a state of paralysis. Women could not acknowledge this “state of prostitution<\/a>” in which they lived because one cannot admit one is a whore. It seemed impossible to break out of this bind without acknowledging that we were all part of some form of prostitution<\/a>—the “good women” (the girlfriends and wives) and “bad women” (the whores and dykes)—alike. My priorities became aligned with the goal of ending those divisions<\/a> between women based on the contracts we make with men for the purposes of our survival.<\/font><\/p>\n

Carol Leigh, aka Scarlot Harlot, from Whores and Other Feminists<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It became clear to me that, like many other women, I was raised to trade sexuality for survival, or some advantage (i.e., a good husband or boyfriend). As a result of the combination of slut stigma, training to trade sex for security or survival and fear of rape (the likelihood of which supposedly increased if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":103,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/959\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}