"Prostitution is a richly symbolic terrain. It is where our society's anxieties about power, womanhood, and the nation coalesce. For feminist women, the figure of the prostitute often comes to represent the trauma that is inflicted on all women within patriarchy - the ultimate symbol of women's pain, of the violence that women suffer. The client thus becomes the symbol of all violent men: he is the avatar of unadulterated violence against women, the archetypal perpetrator."
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