"Babies and sex were once more commonly used for income than they are now; women continue to receive money from welfare for having babies, and men sometimes act as prostitues to pry the money from them."
"Casual sex with as many women as possible, impregnating one or more, and getting them to have his baby brings a boy the ultimate in esteem from his peers and makes him a man. Casual sex is therefore fraught with social significance for the boy who has little or no hope of achieving financial stability and hence cannot see himself taking care of a family."
"The girl has her dream of a family and a home, of a good man who will provide for her and her children. The boy, knowing he cannot be that family man, because he has few job prospects, yet needing to have sex to achieve manhood in the eyes of his peer group, pretends to be the decent and good man and so persuades the girl to give him sex and perhaps a baby. He may then abandon her, and she realizes he was not the good man, after all, but rather a nothin' out to exploit her."
- Elijah Anderson, Code of the Street
Ladies, PLEASE remember this the next time you want to sleep with some dude up the block!
And yes, Kim Porter, that means you, too. Especially the quote below.
"A baby could in cold economic terms be considered an asset, which is without a doubt an important factor behind explotative sex and out-of-wedlock babies...."
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