Posted March 2, Underlying this aggression is the notion that sex, because it is so valuable, should be given freely and that money contaminates the mutual exchange of physical intimacy.
I have taken a few economics classes recently and despite the discipline's ability to confound intuition and everyday logic, this concept of 'free is better' still escapes my young economic mind. My mathematical mind can't seem to conjure up the right equation either.
It is said that money can't buy you love though some may disagree but why should it not buy you sex? It appears to be more socially acceptable though more by young adults than us older folk to get drunk and have sex with some recently met acquaintance than it is to soberly and intently have sex where money changes hands. And for the purposes of this piece I will focus on women getting paid by men.
The answer lies in patriarchy. Should women be free to sell their bodies as they wish then the 'sexual value' of women goes down. What is not valuable in freedom has no value in control. Rape becomes less of a weapon because there is no man to incite to anger, no woman to shame. The woman will always hurt when violated but when the free sexual expression of women becomes hers to do with as she wishes, then the shame and stigma of sex—in all its forms—decreases.
In the USA there is a stigma attached to sex thus all the talk about our uteri and what we can do with it when.
