The Problem With Prostitution

I’ll be delving into the realm of "why bother" for a moment, for no other reason than to simply mount a case against prostitution, on behalf of standard morality, through immoral, logical, and strictly rational means. For while morality may be the largest antagonist of sexual prostitution, the message conveyed within is obfuscated. Generic terms like "you have no respect for yourself" or "your body is a temple" are accepted as proverbial truth. But although the actual reason it’s a poor idea is also unknown to most, it serves to validate the ends of the vague moral opinion. Means are often taken for granted as a way to save mental processing time, so the pre-offered idea that prostitution is bad for an individual simply because it’s a spiritual matter and poisons one’s soul is acceptable, without any understanding as to why. Understanding the means, however, seldom possesses the ability to change the ends, and this is no exception. I merely want to illuminate the fact that the act is simply not in one’s best interest, ever, for both the moral, and the immoral, and why.

The reason prostitution is bad for someone is the same reason the recording industry is bad for music. It turns the artistic act of fucking from an "ends" to a "means," applying a tangible value on an otherwise intangible and priceless act. It elevates it from a carnal root-level procedure, into a complicated and manufactured job, who’s soul source of "pleasure" is the incidental idea of monetary gain. It supports the facade of the super ego, in exchange for the degradation of the id. One chooses partners based on profit, not pleasure; forgoing the handsome man with the amazing chemistry for the fat american senator with the bank account.

On an animal level human beings possess only two sources of pleasure- sex, and the consumption of food. By negating half of life’s natural meaning at a root level, for the benefit of higher brain functions (products, lifestyles, goals which require money), one cripples his or her natural ability to achieve pleasure, and in essence, happiness. It is this tremendous and infinite difference between priced and priceless that lies at the root of all things holy, and all things worthless.