Watched the bbc2 program on the licenced brothel last night. Think it has been on before. It was a quite interesting program, full of all the arguements and expectations without all the cheap thrills. It showed the flipside to the role, where the girls are not all drugies or beaten up by a pimp. Some were really clever and well balanced in their outlook. It just occurred to me that if we ever had it licenced in the uk, whether the morally uptight folk would tear it down and kill the notion? One VERY young looking 21yr old on the program openly said she attracted the types and that it was better for them to get off with her than to snatch some kid?
It would be a very interesting point to have an amnesty on the law in a few area's, and see if the crime rates for sexual offences drops? It is a difficult subject, but just wondered if any of the fella's WOULD openly pay for sex on the proviso that they have a real frustration and were not gods gift to chatting up women within a days timescale to release this tension?
i watch that program to i dont no if it was me but there was just something not right about the two people running it plus that one that realy look young she look realy wierd aswell but the tall leggy blonde mmmmm i would pay for some of that any day she had a realy nice body dam get a grip cant stop thinking about her better go to work than masterbating lol o and when the woman who ran it with her husband thought that she was so good about deepthroating the best i think she said sheesh wat she think she is the only woman who can do that any i am off to work laterz! bye! :eeek:
The blonde one, I think she was called Hayley, really worried me. Call it female intuition but there was something seriously wrong there.
Did anyone else notice that how the programme focussed on so few of the girls yet there were obviously far more in the background?
The theme of the programme was interesting though, I wonder if we have finally got past the 70's, feminist inspired paranoia of all men who pay for sex being degenerates or faliures or both and all women who sell being desperate druggies?
watched it too as i find louis therouxs stuff really interesting, he actually did one (second series i think) about swingers in america. Im sure many of you would find it interesting.
I think the woman called hayley was the one who was strutting about showing off to the camera's all the time? If it rang true the madam said she had been shot in the ear by her ex husband who thought he had killed her then shot himself dead. A sad time. I thought she seemed very intelligent and quite open, but I think some deep mental issues with her personality. The youngish one was as she said purely in it to get some easy money for her and her husband for a home, due to being out of places to stop. The thing that sort of made me open eyed was the one who popped in with the bikini on, having got a young sailor 'partying'...it was said she hoped to 'work' about 14 plus that night...! I guess it sort of makes you think...if you are number 14 that is? The redhead with the old guy was sad. I appreciate his issues but he must surely have understood she was only playing out his fantasy and his pleasure with the big bucks. I did feel sorry for the guy who had problems with his disability in the stroke to the head. He put the issue square and to the point, and for folk like that it has to be some help. I think if nothing else it has to be good for the likes of the physically disabled, the widower who is in his later years who needs some relief and the likes, because it is often hard enough for we who class ourselves as normal to click on a night out?
A deeper subject that will be addressed sometime by some government? They already have some 'area's' set aside for prostitution, and all we need now is a screening process and some legality? Which is the strongest moral code to prostitution...the richeous or the need? guess it is upto the majority of the common people...?
One thing struck me about the programme as I recall - the women were accorded a certain amount of respect by their clients: they were providing good customer service and so their clients were happy. It didn't strike me as a biased view on the part of the film makers - it's not Theroux's style to give a rosy glow usually.
Have to agree - legalise prostitution and everybody benefits in terms of health, falling crime rates and legislation.
Sappho's two pennorth for today!
Love to all xx
I did read your post all the way through, but I thought it unfair to respond to your personal admission of violent fantasies on a public forum, but if you would like to further that discussion by PM, I'm all ears.
I responded particularly to your less personalised first paragraph in a way that I felt was appropriate for a public forum. Although this paragraph was less personalised, yes, I appreciate that this is your personal view of the types of violence that are perceived as appropriate for men and women.
You said:
"As a guy, if you get really hacked off with a guy, you feel like beating him up. That's not an option with a women, so 's an (equally illegal) alternative"
I was pointing out that this particular view, although one which a lot of folks endorse, is inaccurate, namely because men often beat up women, and men commonly get .
Like I said, the rest of what you said seemed very personalised and not something I didn't feel I could comment on in public. Perhpas I could say that a lot of people fantasise about doing horrid things to people they don't like, the nature of which probably does reflect what people perceive (rightly or wrongly) as an "appropriate" type of violence for the gender of the person they hate. What people don't tend to do is admit these violent fantasies. I think that what you said in the latter part of your post was honest (perhaps brutally so) and one that is contraversial for more reasons than you probably realised when you wrote it.
Anyway, I meant no offence to you, I was just responding in a factual way to a post that could have offended some people.
Sapho is right, in Celtic law, women had much more equal status and it was the Romans and (I am sad to admit) Christianity that brought about the change. I very nearly mentioned Boudicca in my post but decided it might only confuse matters so I am very grateful to Sappho for making the point.
I won't add to this as I have already gone on for quite long enough.
However, it is nice to see serious and well thought out discussions on here as well as the very entertaining ones.
I will have to read all this erudition tomorrow. But it sounds as if we have to get serious and historical. Only trouble is that my area of expertise (!!!) is the modern period and I can't comment on ancient history, but I'll have a damned good try!!
nightall x xx