“We feminists think that women deserve the right NOT to prostitute.”

— Melissa Farley

Unequal (2005) http://action.web.ca/home/catw/readingroom.shtml?x=81265&AA_EX_Session=7adbbc717533b7d9c60073d5b06387f3

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American psychologist 1942

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