There has been an increasing interest in the subject of exploitation of women by men. Of physical weakness and child-bearing it must be admitted that these handicaps make women less reliable as employees and therefore less likely to command as high a wage. Physical weakness, however, has become less important with growing automation. The reputed vulnerability of women to economic exploitation, however, has been linked to women's vulnerability to exploitation as sexual beings. But aside from the vulnerability to sexual advances by employers upon whom they are economically dependent, women are deemed to be vulnerable to more outright sexploitation in the forms of pornography, strip-dancing and prostitution.
Many men view sexuality entirely in terms of conquest.
This is in contrast to women who may claim to be economically dependent, but are actually failing to acknowledge the choice between a higher standard of living by staying with an otherwise intolerable mate, and the lower standard of living associated with leaving him. While many of the cases I have cited are reprehensible examples of the physically, politically and economically strong taking advantage of weakness and vulnerability, I would like to add a qualifier. Women can often gain a high return for a small amount of work by taking off their clothes. Although this may involve humiliation for some, many models and dancers take pride and pleasure in their work. In most cases it has a psychological component as well as an economic one.