When you go to work in the morning, your time ceases to be your own. Except for a small percent of you who work for yourselves and don't have to answer to anyone, you're basically offering a service (your presence, your brain and your skills) for a price. You even have to fight for space with all the other prostitutes on the freeway, and since companies all tend to keep similar hours, we get to sit in traffic. For those in retail, we're told 'The customer is always right' even if the person is being s slack-jawed, knuckle-dragging jackass asking why there aren't tablesaws in Housewares. 'Sorry sir, just policy sir, I don't make the rules sir'. Nom, nom, nom. You sir, are violating your own sensibilities for 9 goddamn 50 an hour. 'Come again sir'.
Yes, you are a prostitute. We're all prostitutes.
Whether we're gutter sluts working for minimum wage, or higher-priced escorts making a fat packet, we're offering ourselves for money, and we compete for the privilege. The 'service' might end in a seminal emission or a brain-lock but the fact is, service for pay is just commerce, and it's none of our fucking business or the government's business what consenting adults do with their time or money, as long as we're not hurting anyone.
Ok, so some of you will talk about prostitution in the more traditional sense, that is, selling sex for money, is BAD because there are body parts touching. Well, consider massage, physical therapy, chiropractic, etc. You pay someone to touch you. In fact if they don't touch you they can't do their jobs properly. Why is it legal to pay someone to massage you all over but not have sex with you? Why is it legal for porn-producers to pay people to have sex on camera which results in media which is sold legally, but it's not legal for some chick to charge 20 bucks for head? WTF is going on here?
George Carlin summed it up best: 'I don’t understand why prostitution is illegal. Selling is legal, fucking is legal. So, why isn’t it legal to sell fucking? Why should it be illegal to sell something that’s legal to give away? I can’t follow the logic. Of all the things you can to do a person, giving them an orgasm is hardly the worst. In the army they give you a medal for killing people; in civilian life you go to jail for giving them orgasms. Am I missing something?'
If you're a consenting adult, you should have every right to pay someone for sex as you would a massage. Sex is really just another type of massage if you think about it....especially considering that it's legal to have sex for free! It's the height of ridiculosity to think that you can pay for a massage, but not pay for sex. You can pay for chiropractic (hell insurance even covers it) but you can't pay anyone for some kanoodling.
What's the difference? Nothing!
The law would have you arrested in a sting operation, wasting taxpayer money on an army of police trying to 'catch' some guy paying for sex from an undercover cop saying all the right things. Ok, where's the crime? He almost had sex for money?
People spend all kinds of money and resources in trying to get sex or attract mates. Women compete in their own way to get someone's attention and this entails looking-good. There are whole industries surrounding this. Men do the same, and sometimes even fight over women....and fighting is not cheap when you're in the ER, jail or getting sued.
Yes, we all go through a lot of trouble, money and resources to pursue sex and mates, but you can't actually just whip out a Benjamin and pay for what you're after in the most direct sense. I suspect that some sex-crimes are the result of a suppressed sex-drive or inability to find sex.
This is one reason why we see so many 'holy men' involved in scandals. Suppress a natural sex-drive and strange things happen. Just take a look at Ted Haggard. He opposed gay-marriage from the pulpit, but is caught having paid-gay sex with his masseur, Mike Jones in 2006. Funny how that works...even Ted Haggard, who ostensibly opposes his own sexuality based on his religious beliefs, cannot seem to suppress his natural inclination or attraction to men. Simple illegality is not the answer, and despite Ted Haggard's tremendous hypocrisy, we should not be alarmed or shocked when people seek out sex with whatever resources they have with other consenting adults.
Sure, there are downsides to prostitution, but this has nothing to do with the *right* one should have to pursue it, regardless of whether we agree with their choices. Hell, I don't agree with people buying giant fucking SUV's or having 19 kids like the Duggar-factory in Arkansas, but those are choices they've made. It's not my business what car someone drives, how many kids they have or who they have sex with and what it costs them in resources, time or money.
Some people have religious views against prostitution, but you know I've thought carefully about that and decided, well, who cares what your god thinks....nobody's god has ever been proven *ever* and can't even be defined coherently. Religion is irrelevant when it comes to the natural world. Quoting from a 2000-year old collection of anonymously-written fairy tales has nothing to do with anything, anymore than quoting the Great Flying Spaghetti Monster would seem relevant in a sensitive discussion about abortion or stem-cell research.
Think about it. Topic, gun-control. Thoughts?
'The great Fleekeemikmak of planet Sookulsh says ixnay on the unsgay!'.
Correct response: 'You sir, are a fucking moron. NEXT.'
There is zero difference between this example and anything a theist says in reference to a Bible when applied to the natural world. Zero difference. The only difference is the social impetus to 'respect' this belief due to sheer numbers of believers......but the stories are no different in their idiotic appeals to mystery and authority.
The pursuit of sex always costs money, time and resources and as we know, time+resources=money. Some guys choose to get married and get tangled up in expensive divorces...not a choice I would make, but they were willing to gamble and it's their choice. If they think that it's worth half their net-worth to 'secure' a woman, that's them. I think it's a terrible bet considering the more than 50-percent divorce rate, but they are consenting adults....just because I don't agree with it doesn't mean they shouldn't have the right to get married.
Likewise, it's none of mine, yours or the goverment's business which consenting adults have sex, or whether a consenting man manages to wrangle more than one consenting woman to participate in his harem. Certainly it's none of our business how much time, resources or yes, money it costs those who pursue mates or just sex because in the end, we're all prostitutes.
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Saturday, September 5, 2009
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8 comments:
While I agree with you on what you said in your mini-atheist rant in the middle there... I'm not sure that's really the point that needs to be made (even if it is, bottomline, the FUCKING POINT... heh).
Religious issues with prostitution are only a problem because those people think they have a right to force their beliefs on others. Instead of thinking, "My god says do not let a man put it in my butt for money..." and choosing to follow those beliefs and just clucking sadly when they see others following a different belief system (IE: YAY MONEY FOR SEX!) they have to go out with pitchforks and whine at politicians to make laws.
Unfortunately, I think the moment you start debunking their religion, no matter how right I think you are, they will close their ears. The theists need to learn that their genitals aren't the only things they should be keeping to themselves and enjoying in private.
Ok....I absolutely agree with you on everything. Just a curious couple of questions though: Did you recently get arrested for soliciting a prostitute and were you molested by a priest when you were a wee-little boy? I am dying to know because damn...you really hate religions! LoL!
Yo Cap!
No, I don't solicit hoes, but it saddens (and angers) me that cities waste perfectly good taxpayer funds trying to trick, trap and jail guys who just want paid sex. There's a huge amount of money here that could be used on something like, oh I don't know, education!
Prostitution won't be illegal forever, since it's basically legal to have sex for free. It's just another Draconian law, similar to some laws still on the books where a woman can't stand near a lamp-post after dusk (in some jurisdictions).
The books are filled with crazy old laws, and prostitution is just prohibition in a modern time fueled by a current-day temperance movement.
This too shall pass, but it will cost us a lot of money in the meantime.
Ersigh I know what you mean....the religions wackaloons tend to not listen and tend to want to shut people like me up. The important thing here in my opinion is that the religious peeps need to know that their holy books have *zero relevance* in issues which lie firmly in the natural world. It's the same reason we don't consult Zoroastrianism in order to verify the latest fossil data or genome sequence. In the purvue of science and fact, religion has no relevance. I think people need to treat it more like it is (a crazy story) and not with deference and 'respect'. People tend to conflate respect for belief with respect for people.
People I otherwise respect and like can hold some really stupid views. We should not allow people to bully us into silence simply because we're outnumbered or because believers can be sensitive and emotional about their fairy-tales.
I agree. It's very important to be open about our perspectives otherwise it allows the sheep to continue wandering through life believing they're right and that there is no other path.
I'm proud to say that my son stands up for what is right... he doesn't care for the backlash (like getting punched because he told a kid not to cut in the lunch line) but he still does it. I couldn't be more proud. :)
OMG. I've almost gotten in fights for telling people to pick up their litter (or asking them). If I say nothing, I feel I am just as guilty. Another great topic for a blog. ;)
Good for Brehn...someone's gotta have the gumption to call people out...and yes, sometimes it means finding yourself in a fight...but if it didn't take guts everyone would do it.
I thought you'd get a kick out of this.
We were watching "America's Got Talent" last night and one of the groups, "Voices of Glory", said when asked, that they were going to give 10% of the million dollars (if they win) to the Lord.
Brehn says, "I don't want them to win. That would be a waste of $100,000."
lol
Likewise, I chuckle with great glee when a UFC fighter with a giant tat of Jesus on his back gets knocked the F out! :D
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