Unfortunately, most, if not all of the prostitutes are drug addicts and it s their pimp who is their drug supplier. In all likelihood the person is doubly enslaved, not only to their panderer, but to the horror of chemical addiction. It s a bleak picture. You d end up with a system of legal prostitution on one hand, and an illicit black market operating in parallel on the other, a black market much like today s industry, one that exists is the shadows of our world, hidden at night, in dark corners where respectable people do not travel. And it s not difficult for many people to distance themselves from the world of prostitution.
Prostitutes are lesser persons in the eyes of respectable people.
They are nothing but objects in the eyes of the people who pay for their services. They aren t human beings with names. They slip into the shadows of a world that most of us don't want to acknowledge exists. When we do see them we are scandalized and wish they would go away. The prostitution Paul is speaking of isn't of the same nature as the prostitution you witness downtown Vancouver or Saskatoon.