Musings on Post Responses

Since the publication of my most recent letter to the National Post (see below), there have been responses from a prostitute who is so proud of her contributions to society that she withheld her name and refused to be identified, and from a john who likes prostitution but only when they haven't been abused. If only they came with stamps like "Abuse Free" while you were throwing money at them to have "sex"--not the same thing as you have with a woman that you truly love and respect--with you, you isolated, pathetic loser.
Let's delve a little deeper into these letters and their implications, shall we? First, the women who describes her work as "the escort profession." She believes that she is admired; does the admiration come before or after you strip before a complete stranger? Are you granting him "dignity and respect" by taking his money before you take your clothes off, or are you kind enough to him and his sensibilities to wait until you've put them back on? Does any of this sound reasonable to a rational person of sound mind? Have the dehumanizing effects of your "industry" entered your mind; you speak of the shame and fear that stems from prostitution, but have you considered that it is indeed because of the prostitution itself? You sell your body for "sex"--what you do does not deserve the term. Think about the hard-working mother of two who works a 10-hour day and comes home "exhausted and depressed" for doing so. Do you think she feels any shame or fear in providing for her family? Have you considered what a disservice you are doing to women such as this? What you do is a slap in the face to every honest hard-working woman; in order to gain the "admiration" of men and steal it away from those women who truly deserve it, you lower yourself to being a piece of meat. You are not admired, you are not respected, you participate in your own exploitation and you don't even realize it.
Turning to the john. First, you are a scumbag. Your self-serving distinctions between the sex slave, the escort, and the self-employed sex slave are contemptible. To suggest that there is less abuse involved is ludicrous, because every time you solicit a prostitute you are abusing their dignity and determining their value as a human being based on how well they "do their work." Do you not realize the inhumanity of your actions, or were you too busy thinking of how to convince yourself that what your doing isn't deserving of moral opprobrium? As for your preferences, as I stated above, would your conscience be so much cleaner if you knew that the prostitute you've picked up entered the "profession" completely of her own accord? Do you bother to ask them? Or do you just pay your money for "sex"--I use quotation marks because what you do with a prostitute is not sex--and just tell yourself that this is one of the innocent ones who is just looking for a good time and a few bucks to pay for college? Does that make you a better person than the john who simply doesn't give a fuck? No. Because let me tell you something: at most, 1% of the prostitutes out there voluntarily choose prostitution. That means there's a 99% chance that the woman you are abusing has been abused for a good portion of her life, including when she was a child. What you do is an affront to humanity, all the more so because of your blatant hypocrisy.

In case you folks haven't figured it out yet, I am against prostitution. It is a blight on our society, and those who engage in it, from the pimp to the prostitute to the john, deserve our scorn, but the women involved also deserve some measure of compassion. As I said, 99% of them did not choose this life. We as a society need to recognize that there is a need, a pressing urgent requirement, to help get these women off the streets, away from the predators and the pimps, and help them. Get them clean. Get them off the drugs. Get them into school. Get them in the real workforce. Save them.