Well now!!!
This thread seems important for a lot of reasons. It suggests, albeit perhaps unwillingly and unwittingly, the central importance of human sexual energy and human sexual need. It demonstrates, though no one has admitted it perhaps, the overwhelming predominance of the capitalist marketplace---where anything is for sale 'if the price is right.' And it shows the prevalence of 'spectacular' relationships, especially in relation to the mass media.
Inquiring minds want to know. What do folks think of strippers? What about strippers who do lap dances? What about the thousands---more likely tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands each year---who sell kidneys, corneas, and other body parts in order to get money to live? What about the Chinese government, that executes hundreds of thousands of people each year and then puts their organs on the auction block? Does the orphan market set you off, if not the organ market?
I agree with the young woman's parents. She is a smart and powerful girl. The men, however, who would pay fifteen grand to have sex with a 'virgin,' I can't help but feel pity at their buy-in to a complete sham of human sexuality, on the one hand, and disgust at their egotism---I can show her what real sex is like, how great a real man is---on the other.
The sense of judgement and anger in other threads saddens me. We might as well be judgemental and angry that an unequal marriage, that we agreed to in the first place, all of a sudden feels unfair and constricting. What was that movie with Robert Redford and what's her name, Bruce's ex? I hated it, but not because it glorified prostitution and the marketing of integrity, but because it was false and boring. This callow Brit's sense of theater guarantees this will not be boring, and as with all great theater, the greatness comes from the way the producer of the event ties what is real with what is made-up.
Great post. Thanks for bringing this to light for the Yanks here.
