The underlying message of women's subordination to a male dominated State could not be clearer. In answer to Sheila' s message, Sue Metzenrath, also from Australia, wrote that she, and others, had benefited from prostitution because they used the money they earned to get a tertiary degree. That may be so. But the fact that someone benefits from an oppressive system, even when that someone is a member of the oppressed group, does not mean the oppressive system is therefore permissible. Some Africans benefited from selling their brothers and sisters into slavery.
Some madams benefit from selling their sisters into sexual slavery.
That does not negate the oppressive system. Rather that is a strategy of the oppressor to keep the oppressed group divided - benefit them unequally and they will keep fighting each other and not turn their combined force on the real enemy. In South Africa, there were also very strong incentives to maintain apartheid not only for south African whites but for those other nations who traded with them getting items at less cost because of an exploited system of labor. There were many vested interests who derived profits from keeping apartheid as there were in the American south during slavery. Likewise there were strong economic reasons why South African Blacks continued to work for white concerns and the white government just as there are strong economic reasons why women continue to work in prostitution and pornography.