Abolitionism: Unterschied zwischen den Versionen

In prostitution, the issue also was equality, but this time between the sexues: regardless of sex, all people were to have the same rights and duties when it came to fighting venereal diseases. What heated hearts and minds was the issue of double standards between men and women - a case that was to lead, in the long run, to women organizing themselves and actively campaigning for their rights at the voting booth as well as in work life.

:''It is men, only men, from the first to the last that we have to do with! To please a man I did wrong at first, then I was flung about from man to man. Men police lay hands on us. By men we are examined, handled, doctored. In the hospital it is a man again who makes prayer and reads the Bible for us. We are had up before magistrates who are men, and we never get out of the hands of men till we die!