Comrades, the question of prostitution is a difficult and thorny subject that has received

too little attention in Soviet Russia.

This sinister legacy of our bourgeois capitalist past continues to poison the atmosphere of the Workers' Republic

and affects the physical and moral health of the working people of Soviet Russia.

It is true that in the three years of the revolution the nature of prostitution has under the pressure of the changing economic and social conditions altered somewhat, but we are still far from being rid of this evil.

Prostitution continues to exist and threatens the feeling of solidarity and

comradeship between working men and women, the members of the Workers' Republic.

And this feeling is the foundation and the basis of the communist society we are building

and making a reality.

It is time that we faced up to this problem.

It is time that we gave thought and attention to the reasons behind prostitution. It is time that we gave thought and attention to the reasons behind prostitution.

It is time that we found ways and means of ridding ourselves once in all of this evil, which has no place in a Workers' Republic.

Hot Take.

So let me just summarize a little bit. the that sex work is bad for communism. And I should say she goes through the history a little bit and sees it as arising concurrently with the

Bourgeois marriage. I guess Bourgeois marriage is like a capitalist thing and we had we had nuclear

families before that with the rise of class society,

shall we say.

And once upon a time she thought she says that

prostitution sort of was the other side of the coin to this nuclear family unit. It's what enabled it to

exist and in fact in many futile societies prostitutes were celebrated. They had

guilds just like other workers.

And then it served a similar function under capitalism,

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