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I’m willing to allow for that possibility probability.
My TiVo recorded a suggestion for me a couple of days ago. It must have known that I was really tired of My First House Design Flip With Hidden Potential To Climb The Property Ladder, so it grabbed an hour of documentary television from HBO.
Near as I can figure, since it sees that I like Documentary Reality and it just assumes that I like sex, the TiVo pulled down 55 minutes of Cathouse 2: Back In The Saddle. As you may have guessed, this was all about the comings and goings in a legal brothel in Nevada. Never having been inside an actual brothel and possessing more curiousity than is good for me, I decided to watch a few minutes. It starts with some truly sad fellow running up eleven thousand dollars on four or five of his credit cards in order to pay for Fantasy Parties with two sex workers. Thoroughly indoctrinated as I am by Dave Ramsey, it was the credit card stuff that made me mad. I mean, if you want to patronise sex workers and you aren’t married to me, then I guess that’s between you, your genitalia and your god. But I’m prejudiced enough to be really ticked off at the thought of you charging enough to buy a used car on the credit cards you are likely going to file in your bankruptcy.
Here’s the part that really got me, though, and made me realise that I was gonna be too angry to finish the show and meant that I only saw the first 11 of 55 minutes.
They had a talking head interview with one of the sex workers. She was bragging about how she earns $200,000 a year at her job and she’s not dependent on any man. [Unlike the women like me who are “naive” enough to be dependent on a man!] They then cut to the owner of the business driving around in a convertible and talking about luck vs. hard work.
That was a man. While the female “not dependent on a man” sex worker is on her back, her knees and other sorts of things just gutting it out to earn her two hundred large, some fat old guy gets to drive around, smoke and be a millionaire. Then of course Ms. Not Dependent On A Man goes on to talk about how she gets flowers every time she sticks her tongue in a guy’s butt.
Let me say something right now, and let us all be clear. There is really NO amount of money you could pay me to stick my tongue in a stranger’s ELBOW JOINT, let alone his butt. So, yes, I may rely on my husband’s income for my meals and clothes and health insurance. And we don’t earn $200K per year. Then again, neither of us spends any time with our tongue in the nethercrack of some nearly-bankrupt truck driver we’ve never met before who is putting off finishing his education so he can pay our boss to pay us to put our tongue in his butt.
I’ve been in the feminist camp for a long time, albeit I’m in the wierdo arm of Libertarian Feminists who tend to be the black sheep of the Feminst fold. I know that the accepted thought about Sex Workers is that they are earning their independence.
What brief bit of Cathouse 2 I saw didn’t look at all like independence and female empowerment. It looked like exploitation and subjugation to me.
But then again, maybe I’m stupid.
Just Another Pretty Farce 
Yes, you are stupid.
This is not of the good.
It isn’t “exploitation and subjugation” if she’s doing it willingly.
Actually the exploitation and subjugation come along in the 30-40% of her “fee” that goes to the house along with the extra assorted fees for supplies (condoms and lube) and laundry fees and wardrobe and alcohol costs, those are also paid to the house and come out of the worker’s part of the payment. At the end of the day they can end up owing the house instead of getting paid themselves.
But I agree that these ladies have chosen their professions themselves and no one is holding a gun to their head and forcing any aberrant behavior. It all just depends on what value you set on putting your tongue in someone’s ass and the ease of paying a “managment fee” versus being an entrepreneur.
the exploitation and subjugation come along in the 30-40% of her “fee” that goes to the house along with the extra assorted fees for supplies (condoms and lube) and laundry fees and wardrobe and alcohol costs, those are also paid to the house and come out of the worker’s part of the payment.
That’s what I was trying to say, but better.
I agree that these ladies have chosen their professions themselves and no one is holding a gun to their head and forcing any aberrant behavior. It all just depends on what value you set on putting your tongue in someone’s ass and the ease of paying a “managment fee” versus being an entrepreneur.
Which is why I’d like to think that if I did elect to go into that profession I’d be my own boss. If you are paying $11K for sex with me, I want to see a goodly portion of that $11K.
First of all, newscoma is what I use in the blogosphere. I have no idea who posted the comment at the top of this and would not have known about it had Katherine had not sent me an email.
Whoever did this, I’m pissed. This isn’t the way I operate and I’m highly offended.
Katherine, this what not me and I want you to know this. I came over here after your email to see what you were talking about.
I would hope you would look at the ISP #. Keep it up if you want, but once again, someone showed a huge lack of class here and was deceitful.
Someone using my name to leave this is wrong and I’m angry.
Katherine, thank you for alerting me to this.
I’m extremely PISSED.
I think you are spot on with this. I always get a kick out of women who claim they don’t need men in their lives for anything. Hell, a man handed me my lunch today so there’s that. I’m not keen on the sex industry though, it just seems to cheapen human sexuality.
and hiss boo to the jackass at the top.
Just goes to show you there is a market for Aunt B.’s crocheted vagina afterall.
I just want to support Newscoma in her denial of posting the first hateful comment in this thread. It is not her normal way to put a signature on her posts nor is it her style of commenting.
I wondered, because it didn’t sound like nc at all. It concerns me, though, that name was used.
Here’s what information I do have about the person who made the post:
The IP address is 67.159.44.138 and has never been used to comment on my site OR MCB before today.
The good that comes out of a dishonest, vile anonymous commenter is that it gives me the chance to tell you once again Kat Coble (and Newscoma) how much I respect and admire you.
And in reply to your post, I agree that the prostitutes are in fact quite dependent upon men. Ugh.
Thanks guys and thank you, Katherine.
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Well thank goodness you weren’t offended by my comment. I really snapped that off the top of my head with out a lot of filters.
But I agree that if I’m working hard down in the trenches, I’m getting all of the cash.
As for the first comment at the top, random and strange and not of the good.
Gross. A whore is a whore is a whore. WEther you get paid to get on your knees, or you doit for fun….you’re a whore. If you get paid by men to stick your tongue up ther ass (shiverssssssssssssss run down my spine), then yes, you are dependant upon men. Stupid whores.
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you hit the nail on the head with this post – the odd part is that the sex worker still thinks she is not dependent on a man – nope she’s not! she is dependent on MEN (plural)