/lit/ - Literature

>>1812935

you're very smart, but i think maybe people might listen to your ideas more if you were nicer.

>>1769197

i think the difficulty people have is related to the inability (for various reasons, probably nature and nurture) to see sex work as equivalent to other types of work.

one of the most interesting examples of this is people who say things like, "i'd like to hire a prostitute and then just talk to her or play chess with her or something. that would be so crazy"

the assumption here is not that you're hiring her to perform an act (sex) like you'd hire a gardner or something, but that because she'd have sex with you for money, paying her makes her somehow yours, to do with as you wish. sex is her job. you wouldn't be able to pay a waitress to scrub your toilet; she'd look at you like you were crazy. etc.

this feeling of 'sex as ownership' seems to contribute to the idea in people's heads that they own these women/men all the time (and so they should be/are sexually available all the time), even when they're NOT 'on the clock'