Specific men's recreation makes women's lives more dangerous. The presence of strip bars, brothels, saunas, where they provide "extra services" normalizes the objectification, sexualization and violence against women. The existence of closed male spaces where a man takes pleasure in using the female body is a crime in itself. This dehumanizes women, making them toys for men. Thanks to the institution of "men's establishments", men reduce the meaning of a woman, her body and her life only to the product of consumption.

The streets where "men's establishments" are located are dangerous. In Australia, women are avoiding King Street's "sex entertainment" as men begin to make obscene proposals, abuse and harass. Drinking alcohol in strip clubs further lowers the safety threshold. This creates areas that women have to avoid. To reduce the risk of attack, women are forced to seek other routes, especially in the early morning and evening (1).

Strip clubs were banned in Iceland in 2010 due to their threat to the safety of all women, not just those who are exploited inside the clubs. In 2020, an initiative to close clubs appeared in Israel. However, in many countries, men actively practice the consumption of women in "men's establishments". This helps them to feel their superiority, to assert repeatedly their false ideas that they are the upper sex, the first sex, and women exist to satisfy their needs.

Only by inflicting unbearable pain on women, insulting, humiliating, deceiving, buying and raping, men can feel the desired power. Over the millennia of patriarchy, they have not invented and will not invent another way of ruling. Men have not and will not be able to dominate women through authority, superior abilities (physical, psychological or mental) or patronage. Probably the only ability in which a man really surpasses a woman is the thirst for violence and the rapture of torturing a woman.
Men suppressed women consciously, as they do now. Patriarchy is not a natural course of history, not a logical stage in civilizational development, not a consequence of the impact of any physical laws or patterns of nature. This is a direct, conscious violent action of men directed at women. This is probably the only way they exist as a caste: either violence or the pursuit of it.

Men could not, cannot and never will be able to exist without women, while a woman as opposed to man, has never needed and does not need him. Every man throughout the existence of humankind has been vitally dependent on a woman. He grew up in her womb, he fed from her breasts, and he lived, received shelter and food only thanks to a woman. He was deprived of the power that a woman rightfully has.

In the pre-patriarchal period, a woman has always been the center of a social group. She, surrounded by grateful children, was both a creator, and an authority and leader. And the adult man felt superfluous, alienated. And he wanted to prove to himself that he was not an empty place, that he was important. Then the man decided to show his importance and dominance through exceptionally perverse and cruel violence.

A man turned a sexual act into a humiliation of a woman and torture. He never got up with a woman one on one, on an equal footing. He was cunning, he invented early marriages to subjugate his wife; invented war to take women into slavery and rob; invented paternal right to appropriate children; invented religion to take away the title of creator from a woman; he used gang rape to subdue a woman; he used forced insemination to weaken the woman; he came up with laws that deprive a woman of the right to property, the right to vote, to education, freedom of movement, protection from rape, protection from domestic violence; he invented a middle name to deprive a woman of a name. The man tricked the woman into chains. Moreover, today, a man claims that brothels and strip clubs are a natural part of social life. Moreover, the man even convinces that the sex industry protects women, because thanks to it the number of rapes decreases.

A man says about himself that he is such that he cannot live without sexual violence and humiliation of women. And he speaks the truth. Women need to listen more closely to men when they talk about their "dark sides". If a man claims that he is worse than an animal, then he is telling the truth. When he says that he cannot (does not want) to control himself at the sight of a woman in a bathing suit, then this is true. If he “jokes” that he would like to rape a woman or (and) a child, he is not lying. Men are especially good at "jokes" about rape, beatings, death, "jokes", none of which is a joke.
Therefore, the man claims that "men's establishments" save women from rape. He loudly tells the world that he has fallen so far in his humanity that he needs to single out a group of women who can be mocked in order for another group of women to live in safety. And he really needs it.

Nevertheless, no group of women will be safe while the yoke of men is mocking the world. The distribution of pornography only increases the number of rapes, the prostitution of women only increases the amount of violence, and the developed network of striptease bars only increases the danger of men attacking women.

Author: Shveia Krovavaia
Translation: f.sumasbrodskiy