George Patterson[_5_]
January 24th 08, 01:40 AM
On Jan 23, 3:02*pm, > wrote:
> scarcely be called prostitutes, and who have no parallel either in
> * * China, outside the Treaty Ports, or in Europe. They are generally
> * * called 'protected women.' They may originally have come forth from
> * * one or other of the above-mentioned classes of prostitutes, or may
> * * be the offspring of protected women...."
>
> The Report describes the situation of the "protected woman" in the
> following terms:
>
> * * "She resides in a house rented by her protector, who lives
> * * generally in another part of the town; she receives a fixed salary
> * * from her protector, and sublets every available room to individual
> * * sly prostitutes, or to women keeping a sly brothel, no visitor
> * * being admitted unless he have some introduction or secret
> * * pass-words. If an inspector of brothels attempts to enter, he
> * * is quietly informed that this is not a brothel, but the private
> * * family residence of Mr. So and So.... This system makes the
> * * suppression of sly brothels an impossibility.... The principal
> * * points of difference between the various classes of Chinese
> * * prostitutes of Hong Kong and the prostitutes of Europe amount
> * * therefore to this, that Chinese prostitution is essentially
> * * a bargain in money and based on a national system of female
> * * slavery."
>
> * * "It must not be supposed, however, from what is said above, that
> * * the Chinese, as a people, view prostitution as a matter of moral
> * * indifference. On the contrary, the literature, the religions,
> * * the laws and the public opinion of China, all join in condemning
> * * prostitution as immoral, and in co-operation to keep it under a
> * * certain check. The literature of the Confucianists, which, as
> * * regards purity and utter absence of immoral suggestions, stands
> * * un
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> scarcely be called prostitutes, and who have no parallel either in
> * * China, outside the Treaty Ports, or in Europe. They are generally
> * * called 'protected women.' They may originally have come forth from
> * * one or other of the above-mentioned classes of prostitutes, or may
> * * be the offspring of protected women...."
>
> The Report describes the situation of the "protected woman" in the
> following terms:
>
> * * "She resides in a house rented by her protector, who lives
> * * generally in another part of the town; she receives a fixed salary
> * * from her protector, and sublets every available room to individual
> * * sly prostitutes, or to women keeping a sly brothel, no visitor
> * * being admitted unless he have some introduction or secret
> * * pass-words. If an inspector of brothels attempts to enter, he
> * * is quietly informed that this is not a brothel, but the private
> * * family residence of Mr. So and So.... This system makes the
> * * suppression of sly brothels an impossibility.... The principal
> * * points of difference between the various classes of Chinese
> * * prostitutes of Hong Kong and the prostitutes of Europe amount
> * * therefore to this, that Chinese prostitution is essentially
> * * a bargain in money and based on a national system of female
> * * slavery."
>
> * * "It must not be supposed, however, from what is said above, that
> * * the Chinese, as a people, view prostitution as a matter of moral
> * * indifference. On the contrary, the literature, the religions,
> * * the laws and the public opinion of China, all join in condemning
> * * prostitution as immoral, and in co-operation to keep it under a
> * * certain check. The literature of the Confucianists, which, as
> * * regards purity and utter absence of immoral suggestions, stands
> * * un
He wants to get his own newsgroup where he can declare sole ownership
and be the head mother ****er in charge, and get to wear his wifes
panties just like his other buddies in the reef group do.