real prostitution
[Hat tip to LT]
‘You’re consenting to being raped for money’
A second series of the television drama The Secret Diary of a Call Girl - about a prostitute who loves her work - has been commissioned. Appalled at the sanitised picture it portrays, a woman who charges for sex tells Emine Saner what her life is like
Tuesday December 11, 2007
The GuardianA flat in a block in a suburb of London: Karen (not her real name) thinks her neighbours probably realise she sells sex for a living. Of all the myths and stereotypes surrounding prostitution, the reality is more likely to be found…
Legume Sam:
Yikes!
11 December 2007, 11:16 pmDeAnander:
back to one of my favourite quotes: Imaginary evil is romantic and varied, full of charm; imaginary good is tiresome and flat. Real evil, however, is drear, monotonous, barren. Real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
Imaginary prostitution is empowering, romantic, sexy, daring, sensual, rebellious, radical, adventurous…
Real prostitution is about as romantic as working the counter at a fast food joint, and in most cases far more dangerous.
12 December 2007, 1:57 pmxenia:
the humiliation because she is not a 25-year old model is really telling…so is the competition from eastern european women…
I have been looking at pictures of prostitutes in europe from the first half of the century. On those pictures, you see emaciated women, fat women, old women with missing teeth. god forbid i romanticize anything, but in those days, working class men at least did not seem to mind if women were “ugly”.
now, women who prostitute themselves have to spend tons of money on creating a constant fantasy of a flawless girlish body, plus they have to be willing to “expand their offer” to include all kinds of games. even if they are willing to play along, or if they occasionally determine the rules, time and the despair of other women work against them.
ever more layers of alienation and oppression!
12 December 2007, 3:12 pm