Ye Olde Courtesan

Prostitution is obscured by smoke and mirrors in America. Our Puritan roots will not allow America to become modern. We are too afraid of our own selves to trust our country with ourselves. It is time America grows up. Prostitution metaphorically is said to be the world’s oldest profession. This cannot be proven, but an understanding of the human condition could suggest it is true. Instead of hiding behind a scrim of hypocritical right wing conservative values, wouldn’t it be more prudent to recognize the foibles of man and move on? Why subject the American people again and again to sexual scandals that often times never are meant to be in the public eye. While politicians must remain financially honest to the American people, if they uphold their responsibilities to the republic shouldn’t the fidelity of their personal lives be kept separate? We could call it separation of sex and state. It is very likely John F. Kennedy had sex with film actress Marilyn Monroe. It seems, “His bird was allowed to fly the coop,” in the immortal words of the late Frank Sinatra. Similarly but with more potential lethal political repercussions, Senator Ted Kennedy abandoned Mary Jo Kopechne to drown in his submerged automobile in Poucha Pond between Chappaquiddick Island and Cape Poge Barrier Beach
in l969. The incident was covered up and the latter Kennedy was spared the charge of manslaughter because he was Kennedy. Sex scandals in America are not uncommon. It is only when marriage, dynasty, and politics are involved that sexual activity becomes disgraced. When sexual desire is understood and approached at a reasonable level without the drama especially of the l980’s, there is a great possibility its needs can be met. They can be met without a shadow of the Sexual Revolution of the l960’s. America necessarily does not need another Plato’s Retreat or Club 54 nor the homosexual bathhouses of old San Francisco. The fastest and easiest way to satisfy America’s needs is to legalize prostitution. The legalization of this profession would require a new and enlightened acceptance of its design and purpose. The antiquated notion that sexual desire does not exist or that all sexual gratification must come from marriage must be dispensed with. America as a whole knows this is not true. If it were we would not have a pornography industry. Although the Bible suggests that sex is only acceptable after marriage, with the failure rate of marriage in America as high as it is marriage shouldn’t be a prerequisite to getting laid. It creates entirely too much pretense and pressure for average human beings. It is a nice goal to shoot for, but child molestation, rape, and other sex crimes are not worth the price of a prostitute. CNBC’s recent expose on the prostitution industry is self-inflated. Setting the price of intimacy at $5,000.00 is as self-deluded as selling hammers to the United States government for $500.00 a piece. Anyone that has visited Acapulco knows the price of a woman for an hour varies from $40.00 to $200.00. No American in their right mind should pay more. Only the social elite with money to burn on expensive hotels, Dom Perignon, and pretense should even consider it. Intimacy can be had in a shack, as long as it is with the right person.