In the understandable social backlash that surrounded AIDS, prostitution came to be seen as a source of contagion every bit as virulent as IV needle use. Around this time, mainstream feminism also turned against the Prostitutes' Rights Movement and began publicly to excoriate prostitution as a form of patriarchal abuse of women. In 1985, Margo St. James left the United States to live in France. She cited the sexually conservative swing in the American feminist movement as one of her motives in leaving. In 1985, with the decline of the Prostitutes' Rights Movement in America, the image of the liberated whore declined as well.
Prostitution is rape, gang rape.
The whore is, definition- ally, a sexually abused and exploited woman. Her belief that she has consented is merely a delusion. A great deal of feminist research has been conducted, seemingly with the goal of establishing this image of the whore. This is because the sampling is almost always drawn from the street walking segment of the prostitute community, and usually from the further subcategory of street walkers who are in prison, who seek treatment for drug problems or who otherwise enter programs to get off the street. In other words, these samples self-select for the women who are most likely to have been victimized by prostitution and most likely to want out of the profession.