On a Related Note to Politicians...
... I was re-thinking prostitution the other night. Not from the angle that I believe, regardless of the fact that it's a legitimate business transaction that is nonetheless exploitive of women and caters to the male dominant notion that sex is a human need (as in - women do not need sex, so, really - prostitution exists only for men), but from the angle that, if practiced safely (near to impossible, in my opinion, however) I can't reason why society would think women would be angered about their partners' use of prostitution services.
Afterall, if sex is to be considered a need for men, then why should marriage or any other kind of monogamous relationship be a barrier to it? Afterall, we eat out, we sleep in hotels - why is buying sex the big need bad?
Well, I believe it's because no matter how much we rationalize prostitution, there's simply no way around the fact that prostitutes, regardless of the other fact of payment, put their lives in danger beyond the compensation received to serve a need that men have, but that women really don't. Both sexes need to eat and sleep, but only men seem to need sex to survive.
Or do they? Because isn't sex and men just another myth of Patriarchy that we continue to cater to as if it is fact? I mean, a lot of time, money and resources go into policing prostitution, in spite of its illegality, because we want to believe that sex is an actual need of men, and without prostitutes, they would sexually assault their fellow female citizens who aren't prostitutes - in that same way some Islamic countries pretend that covering up women is for their own good because, otherwise, men would be driven by the need for sex to assault them.
That, as we know, is just political rationalization for corrupt behaviour and typical of Patriarchal thinking in that male failings are somehow the responsibility of women to avoid. So why do we pretend prostitution is different? And if it were to be legalized (which would make it much safer for prostitutes) would we be addressing in any way this myth that sex is a human need and not just another way of using women's bodies to cater to men?
Well, no. We wouldn't. So why isn't the discussion about the failings of men instead of the benefits (or not) of prostitution?
