Is Every Hooker A Victim?
Is Every Hooker A Victim?
Smart piece by India Knight in the Times of London on the Belle du Jour story -- the beautiful cancer researcher who turned tricks for a while as a high-priced call girl. Here's an excerpt:
I am sometimes quite hard-pressed to see how an expensive hooker differs wildly from an under-dressed "party girl" out on the town with someone loaded. That distinction has, surely, become blurred to the point of erosion. Except that there are two differences: only the prostitute gets her chip-and-pin machine out at the end of the evening and only the party girl has a lifestyle that is lauded in celebrity magazines: only she becomes a role model.To be honest, I have more respect for the woman who recognises the transaction for what it is. Look at the two girls: one, self- reliant, gets the cash and walks away, job done. One is at the mercy of someone else's wallet, not for a couple of hours but for weeks, months, maybe even years on end. Who's the victim? Who's being had?
...This isn't a defence of prostitution, which I don't much care for -- not so much on moral grounds as on the grounds that many prostitutes have a horrible life and do themselves huge emotional and psychological harm. But not all of them. There are worse and more dishonest ways of getting cash out of men. Colleagues at the Bristol hospital where she carries out medical research into childhood cancers said: "This aspect of Dr Magnanti's past is not relevant to her current role at the university."
Anyone expressing amazement at the ease with which Brooke Magnanti has been rehabilitated should take a look at the real world. Of course she's been rehabilitated: her colleagues are clever enough to know that compared to what else goes on out there, she was a class act.
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If one could run over to the corner cathouse for a reasonably priced, medically safe, discreet quickie without anyone giving it a 2nd thought, I submit that sexually related offenses would be significantly reduced and society would be much better off because the (normal) male's sex drive has an outlet.
How can I say that? Because where I live here in SE Asia, thats exactly how it is. The girls are clean, happily employed and safe. There is no stigma for either the employees or their customers.
Free market. Live and let live.
Over the last 40 years we've bent over backwards to accomodate female-specific needs. Why can't we do the same for this most basic of all male needs?
I'll tell you why.
Because if men could get sexual satisfaction without all the female strings attached, it would alter the balance of power between the genders dramatically. If legislatures actually considered legalizing prostitution, all those liberal, secular, my body-my choice, feminists would (suddenly) kick in to high gear an advertising blitz about the sanctity of the family being threatened and the horrors of "human trafficking" even though being a legal hooker would be one of the most well-paying sought after jobs around.
Feminists have men by the balls (literally), and they're not about to let anyone threaten their biological advantage.
Mike: My my. Quite the outburst of bitter there.
Anyway in regards to prostitution, I don't really think the onus is on women to provide an "outlet" for "normal male biology" (and some would highly question what your definition of that is.)
No, men should just learn to respect women whether they get sex from them or not, and women need to get out of this stupid frame of mind that they should latch on to sugar daddies to get by in life. Everyone will be happier then.