Break the Illusion Blog by Davey Wavey

Like a good gay, I was watching the Tyra Show during my lunch break today. The topic was prostitution. I watched as the audience unanimously scolded and scorned the female prostitutes on stage.

It got me thinking.

Some people make money off of singing. Others make money from dancing. I make money from building websites – using my talents and skills. Some people make money by giving advice. These girls made money from sex – the service that they provide. At face value, it’s no different. Like many of us, these girls were charging for a service. Their service just happens to have a lot of stigmas and baggage associated with it.

Hell, in the United States, we even pay people to kill other people in wars around the world in the name of the pursuit of freedom. And we want to criticize someone who is getting paid to provide pleasure to another human being? That just seems a bit fucky, don’t you think?

For some of us, sex is very, very special. It’s saved for a loved one. For other people, sex not necessarily associated with love. People are very different, and there’s no one size fits all approach to sex. It’s important to remember that neither approach is better than the other; the different approaches reflect different collective life experiences.

I wouldn’t make a good prostitute. There aren’t a lot of people with whom I’d want to have sex. Luckily for me, prostitution is not the career path that I’ve chosen. But if someone really wants to be a prostitute – and it’s not done out of desperation or dependency on drugs – then who am I to tell them it’s wrong?

Of course, there are particularly unpleasant aspects of prostitution. It’s a world full of drugs, disease and pimps. Perhaps if prostitution was legal and seen as legitimate in the eyes of Americans, then the industry could be regulated and things would be different. If you take the drugs, disease and pimps out of prostitution, I can’t see why it’s considered “wrong”. I can see why it’s wrong for some people if it doesn’t fit with their values, but I can’t see why it’s wrong for everyone. I think it’s a personal choice.

At any rate, I was put off by the self-righteous audience who, in trying to take the moral high road, walked on the backs of a handful of girls already rejected by society.

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