On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Timothy Nelson wrote: > I am also sure that the less reputable brothels are under Jhereg control - > because in a society with more advanced (or less so, depending on if the > person you speak to is liberal or conservative) morals, conditions in > brothels are likely regulated by the state. > > So you have bad working conditions at the cheap facilities, which is, i'm > sure, what Cawti was objecting to -- no the action of prostitution itself. Politics aside (and I think the above l/c categorization is too facile), you are I believe presenting Vlad's view. Cawti says, "How much does it help to give fair treatment to people who are selling their bodies?" (_Phoenix, pg 72.) As an aside, when someone in this thread wrote that Vlad's saying Dragaerans thought prostitution was ok annoyed Cawti, I thought at first the implication was that Vlad had asked Cawti if she minded him negotiating affection from time to time...