Chatting with Wellness Industry Workers

[ham]

Figuring out why men pay for sex they don't have could sustain New York's therapists for a long time. But the observations of one Big Apple-based sex worker are typical: "Men like it when you listen. . . . I learned this a long time ago. They pay you to listen -- and to tell them how great they are." Indeed, the high-end sex workers I have studied routinely see themselves as acting the part of a counselor or a marriage therapist. They say their job is to feed a man's need for judgment-free friendship and, at times, to help him repair his broken partnership. Little wonder, then, that so many describe themselves to me as members of the "wellness" industry.

Oh yes, with all the strong women, feminists, bulldykes etc out there blowing poor Harry's hair back for every minor thing, no wonder they pay hooker to listen and have no sex because statistics tell that 1 person in 2 suffers from sexual dysfunction or other symptom that affects sexual performances.

And as a practical—rather than theoretical—matter, coercion is inherent in the prostitution industry.  These theoretical “transactions between consenting adults” do not correspond to the stark reality of the sexual marketplace.  The fact is that where prostitution is “legal,” either overtly or in practice, women are exploited, abused, and consigned to sexual slavery.  That is not in any way consistent with “libertarian” ideals.  

And anyone who acts as a “purchaser” in such transactions is participating in and contributing to that coercion and exploitation.  It cannot be justified as merely a harmless exercise in “libertarian” ideals because it’s not.

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While it is difficult to disprove that some degree of exploitation unfolds in some clusters of the prostitution arena, that isn't by far the norm: just think about the booming college prostitution thing and its antecedents. Hell, Walmart employees think they are the most exploited on the planet! Girls want cash...now and fast...they don't want to slave away in a MacJob making minimum wage, while they could do many times more in a fraction of the times listening to poor saps who won't touch them...and if they do, a study told western men last an average of 7 minutes...
By your standards, people of color are being oppressed too...I see them as major clients of the affirmative action, welfare gravy train and crime stats, but you can see them as powerless victims, too.
Years back Ham was an avid strip club/brothel regular...Ham never witnesses the mythical exploitation whigroes and liberals whine about...just girls wanting to pull a fast one.
Yes, when they borrowed money from pimps for drugs and other stuff,it could get nasty fast at 8% compounded monthly rate...but nobody obliged them to...nobody shoved drugs up their nose...and yes, you had girls making perhaps $100-300 a night (working between 10 or so to 2AM) who still needed to borrow money...very hot girls could make much more and still borrow money from pimps...do YOU make $300 in 4-5 hours, tax free? Besides, lots of people run into trouble for borrowing money from nasty characters outside of the prostitution world.
In fact, there are sawy prostitutes who  manage their income well, retire early and say set up a book shop...but many end up dejected even after earning hundreds of thousands tax free...their fault, I say.
You make it sound as if the world owes something to Africans who underachieve in school as a category...I say the world owes them nothing.
You are making excuses for some people's shortcomings...their problem, I say.
None says prostitution is the city of god...but it is THEIR SOLE CHOICE to try pulling a fast one instead of macjobbing with minimum wage.