It is. Sex work is one of the oldest industries we have in America; brothels and sexual transactions popped up here just as soon as the first European settlers arrived. However, I feel as if our deeply disturbed, misogynistic Puritanical roots not only deny that history but actively shame and fight against it.

As a result, we arrive at the culture you've so perfectly explicated here in this post. So many men in America subscribe to hating women as their default behavior, and they don't even realize it. It's ingrained into our culture in a lot of ways. Great call out. I really don't think folks understand how deep it truly goes. We are up against some extremely disturbed people.