Why Do We Have Prostitution?

[sevenOP]

Why do we have prostitution ?

[shaneystar2]

Probably because it's supposed to be the oldest profession in the world ,like physicians, prostitutes have been around since the year dot .

[Answerprancer]

...I like the line in Human Traffic that refers to what I just said: "I take the corporate cockshafting like the next person because I have to pay the rent".

[DTCwordfan]

actually from a copyright purpose on a one liner, it does, Talbot.

[Psybbo]

Shaney, I like that, physicians and prostitutes, may I add polititians

[BlackadderV]

...and pimps.

[woofgang]

lets also remember that both men and women and children of both genders are forced into prostitution by criminals of the most unpleasant kind. I suspect for the purchasers of those unfortunates, its more about power than about the wish for sex.

[DTCwordfan]

I think that is very true, woofgang, that puts it into four categories, mainly from the female perspective:

Organised crime - prostitution rings and slavery

Organised and bordering on crime, those who need the income

Legal and those who need the income

Legal and those who enjoy it, which I would think is not that large a category, numbers wise.

The central issue who are the pimps and their motives in this......

[Svejk]

grasscarp/// I got a brothel in London closed down. ///

Got a job there, did you gc? ;)

[sandyRoe]

I think poverty is the motivation for some of the vendors.

[TWR]

I used to stop in Northampton years ago & Knew a Prosie ( YES ) without her duties, called Margret, I was talking about this one night inside this pub & asked, why do you do it, her reply she had 2 children & Could I earn a £100 a night tax free, how can you reply to that, the Pub Chriterian, Ummmm has heard of the Pub as she lives in that area.

[mrs.chappie]

Because there's money to be made by it and because there's a demand for it.

[ummmm]

Lol TWR...The Criterion was always known for the prostitutes that frequented it. I used to know the landlord.

The prostitutes I've met are all drug addicts.

[TWR]

The women I knew Ummmm was ok to talk to, she asked if I wanted Business, my reply no thanks, she got pulled a few times, she got belted a few times by her punters, I often said you are silly by doing this, her reply, my Kids / & money, how can you answer that?

[ummmm]

We had a few prostitutes that used to use our pub. I remember my nan saying they were welcome but they weren't to try and drum up business. They often came in with bruises.

I didn't actually live in the same area as the Criterion. I lived on Abington Square. The flats not far from the Cri was the red light district.

[DTCwordfan]

Prostitutes aka escorts appear everywhere when it comes to hotels, bars and restaurants, even the best ones. I was in the bar of the Churchill Hotel in Portman Square, London, one evening and 'intervened' on behalf of a rather pretty and well-dressed girl who was having some problem with a Greek client.

It was fascinating to hear about her experiences, the money I suspected for drugs, 95 per cent of clients ok, a third of them just lonely and looking for companionship, not even sex. The 5 per cent though - this is a family channel. Her rate, if I remember, was well in excess of £1500 a night, her need being lifestyle as she claimed.

And before you question me, I have known the barman there since I was 16 and he gave me free drinks for quietly intervening and saving an embarrassing scene in his bar.

[Retrochic]

Serious question - there are hetero prostitutes, homosexual prostitutes but I've never heard of a lesbian prostitute -do they exist and if not why not?

[Answerprancer]

I spoke on the phone to the (then) head of the English Collective of Prostitutes once, I felt like I was talking to royalty - she was very nice.

[ummmm]

Well you know the old cliche. Men need sex to feel loved and women need to feel loved to want sex.

Maybe there is some truth in that.

[DTCwordfan]

Retro, yes they do exist.

[DTCwordfan]

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