| >I don't accept your premise. Men don't go into sex work to the same degree because there isn't enough economic demand for their services. You missed my point. There isn't much demand for men as sex workers and yet they still manage to avoid starving. >But it's a mistake to generalize form your experience and assume that none are. How many prostitutes do you think there are as a percentage of the total population? In the US, especially, women have other options. >Or I might infer that since poker is a game of bluffing as much as of luck, it suited at least some of your companions to present themselves to you as shiftless and lazy so as to tempt you into more reckless betting - after all, don't prostitutes specialize professionalize in pretending to be whatever others expect them to be? They weren't working - they were playing. Not very well, either. This was a card club in an area that wasn't great, and hookers and drug dealers tend to gamble a lot because they have a lot of undeclared cash. >What they need is probably safe housing, maybe drug detox, counselling, education and a boatload of other resources...' Well, okay, but that's a separate issue from whether or not making her trade illegal will benefit her. It won't. >Men are only controlled by their sexuality to the extent that they find it burdensome to obtain consent for sexual activity, no? Oh, it's not perfect control. If a wife withholds sex from her husband for long enough he's going to get it somewhere else, and most women are more deft than that. But using sex as a reward for painting the garage isn't fundamentally different than selling it. |