In 1958, brothels were abolished in Italy by Law 75/1958 formally
known as the 'Abolition of the Regulation of Prostitution and the
Fight Against the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others'
('Abolizione della Regolamentazione della Prostituzione e Lotta
Contro lo Sfruttamento della prostituzione Altrui'), and more
popularly called 'Legge Merlin' after the 'senatrice' who proposed it.
Evola tackled this question in an article published 'Il Nazionale' in
1958, and which can be found in the appendix to the third edition
of 'Metafisica del sesso' (Edizioni Mediterranee, Rome, 1994) : 'Il
fenomeno Merlin', which starts like this : "The present argument is
not part of those which we intend specifically to deal with here.
However, we would like to tackle it because it leads us to various
other more general considerations. Besides, what has been the first
tangible fruit of the democratic progress which has introduced bits
of skirt in the Parliament and in the Senate deserves to be
emphasised. The 'Prostitution control' bill, as well as the current
which approves it, is actually a typical expression of that mix of
hypocrisy, of irresponsibility, of false zeal, of rhetoric and of
moralism which characterises in general the demo-Christian climate.
There finally had to be a female senator, 'la Merlin'".
To Evola, all questions, including the 'news', were worth being
tackled, so long as they offered him a basis to bring them back
to "more general considerations", to look at them from a traditional
standpoint. It is precisely from that standpoint that a member of
this list considers an event which happened a few years ago in
Canada, and which is closely linked to the coming of a gynaecocratic
society in Western countries.
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