SunriseChampion
Bluelighter
I've paid with my dignity, time, youth, etc...but never with money. I feel like I may be doing it wrong.
Never.
Sex to me only works if I know the other is really in to it. Paying someone to fuck instantly throws that out the window, even if they are hot for you it sows a seed of doubt.
Stay physically fit and it shouldn’t ever be much of a problem. That said women will always have it easier than men.
-GC
So Jess, would it be better to be somekind of an pickup artist slaying dozens of women a month or just straight up pay for it (like pick up artists do in a way)?
So Jess, would it be better to be somekind of an pickup artist slaying dozens of women a month or just straight up pay for it (like pick up artists do in a way)?
Thats an interesting distinction. I suppose the guy who pays for sex probably isnt as bad as the guy who serially emotionally manipulates women into it.
You seen women being treated like objects is just in your head. Heh, unless thats what she likes though. Idk, theres objectively more women staying with richer spouses because of money, isnt that an deal sort of too?
I know we touched on this in other threads - which caused me to reflect greatly on my involvement with sex workers - however I feel I can honestly say that I never saw or treated a sex worker as an object. Unless I really have a blind spot in this area of my self-awareness I’m pretty confident that I treated each one respectfully as a human being and felt the money was incidental (in the sense that I didn’t think it bought me any rights to do anything in particular other than have the woman’s time).. The guy paying for it might legitimately not realize the moral issues.
And at least in that situation the women are being paid to be treated like objects.
Do you see and accept the difference between the two different kinds of freedom? Freedom from vs Freedom to? Also sometimes referred to as positive vs negative freedoms?Imo there is no moral issue if the woman is prostituting herself by her own choice
I get that, but that’s not quite what I meant. The ability of people to make choices is constrained by many factors in their upbringing and present day social circumstances. Many people simply cannot see a wide range of choices in front of them. For example a person in a third generation welfare family whose father has been in prison since they were born and whose mother is drug addicted sex worker concerned only with scamming enough for the next shot is unlikely to imagine they could be a neurosurgeon - no matter their natural abilities. In that sense they are unfree to make choices because they cannot even see that they have choices.Yes of course. I dont break professional boundaries. Unless she has given me the right to.
This is little different with junkie women though...
If you truly want an insight on the sex trade, I suggest the YouTube or patreon channel soft white underbelly. Subscribe click playlists and hit sex workers. It’s a lot simpler yet more complicated than your deductions. Short videos, very interestingI know we touched on this in other threads - which caused me to reflect greatly on my involvement with sex workers - however I feel I can honestly say that I never saw or treated a sex worker as an object. Unless I really have a blind spot in this area of my self-awareness I’m pretty confident that I treated each one respectfully as a human being and felt the money was incidental (in the sense that I didn’t think it bought me any rights to do anything in particular other than have the woman’s time).
Now I can see that from the perspective of the woman she may have felt she had no choice to comply with what I put out there genuinely as requests or suggestions. But whenever I asked “would you mind if I X” or “would you mind doing Y” I was fine if the answer was no. It just meant that I would likely not return for a second visit because that particular woman and I were incompatible.
I never ever asked how a woman got into prostitution and certainly never asked if there was something she would rather be doing instead. But in the places I frequented I presumed she was there under her own volition. However, sometimes our choices with what we do with our lives are constrained in terrible but not obvious ways. For example, I would probably never have become a hard core injecting drug addict if I has not been sexually abused between ages 7-9. In actual fact I would strongly like not to be an injecting drug user and deeply regret ever having become one. So I struggle with people who say taking drugs is ‘my own free choice’. Similarly, while these women might have applied to a job ad and seemingly willingly chosen sex work, I can easily imagine that deep in their past their might be trauma that made them feel they had few other options. So was that choice really ‘free’?
Ultimately I choose to believe that the sex workers I most connected with were like me in the sense that they had not had an easy life, had been treated badly by people they trusted, knew they were not living their best possible life, but also appreciated the chance to connect with a totally non-judgemental and undemanding person concerned to make the other as happy as possible in the short time available and under the somewhat degraded circumstances of both lives.
However, of the maybe 50 sex workers I spent time with in the last year, I found such a connection maybe 3 times. Perhaps another 10 attained a level of mutual professional respect. For the rest I’m sure I was deliberately forgotten the moment I left no matter how respectful I tried to be. The one thing I did not really experience too often was a clear cut mercenary ‘clean out his wallet’ attitude.
@JessFR I do really wonder if there is a big difference in how former sex workers perceive things between those who grudgingly did street work only to get their next heroin shot versus those without drug addiction who work more ‘professionally’ (for want of a better term) in brothels.