You knew I'd have to weigh in.....

...on the Women's Worlds Feminist Convention, being held here today. I'd like to drop in, but I dare not; the precious few men attending would be very disheartening. Let's face it, the societal ills the 1,600 delegates are trying to address, i.e., poverty, food and water insecurity, homelessness, sex trafficking and war rape, are basically caused by, well, men. No, it would be a gathering of well-meaning, empowered western women talking about the lives of their desperately poor disenfranchised counterparts in the third world in a fancy hotel across the street from a Parliament that isn't sitting. In other words, well-meaning, middle class socialists and activists talking to each other. Now, if the male power brokers who rule the world were attending, it might be a different story. But probably not.

One of the main objectives of the conference is to abolish prostitution. Now, there's a delusional fantasy if ever one existed. The reality is that women who have nothing but sex to sell to feed their families have to sell.....sex. That's because those who rule the world make decisions that result in the depraved conditions in which millions of women are forced to live (see list above). Prostitution won't go away, that's why I favour the Amsterdam model, where it can at least be regulated in relative safety. (I know that doesn't square with my Catholicity, but it does with reality.)

So, that's my amateur analysis. Think about it, if prostitution were outlawed, the millions of partners within legal and common-law unions providing sex for money would be in jeopardy -- not to mention the millions of divorcees who continue to get money for having previously provided the commodity. Our whole "civilized" house of cards would come crashing down on the heads of lucky lawyers everywhere.