Cash This Homo!
When money buys sexuality
(on straight prostitutes going gay)
By: M.J. Rahahleh
Prostitution might not be one of the options to tick during a career determination test one might take during high school, but it’s something that exists everywhere, in industrialized nations as well as developing ones regardless of race, color or religion. Legalized in some parts of the world while illegal in most of the rest, we all heard of female prostitutes ‘hired’ by guys that are desperate for a quickie, or of so called ‘man whores’, ‘male prostitutes’ or ‘escorts’ also hired by women, and to some extent, gay prostitutes as well, but straight guys working as gay prostitutes? I think the word you’re looking for right now is ‘HUH?!’
Yep you heard it, straight guys working in gay prostitution.
Prostitution is as old as time, not something to be big-headed about (speaking on behalf of mankind), oldest sources of that ‘profession’ are Babylonian manuscripts showing the amount of taxation for that group of people, and through out the development of human civilization ever since the times of Babylon and Assyria to a couple of decades ago, prostitution was mainly, or even more of a female-restricted field. But in the past few years, the ‘demand’ for male escorts rocketed, whether it was for some 40 year old has been that wants to rub it in her friend’s face cause her friend has a boyfriend half of her age now, or for yet another desperate housewife with nothing better to do at hand, this form of business recorded an estimated worth of 980 million US dollars in the year of 2007 and growing, and it doesn’t seem like it’s going to take a nosedive anytime soon. Unlike other sectors of economy, it’s practically unaffected by the World Wide Credit crisis, I mean who would even care to pay for their mortgages while Fabrizzio is standing at the corner of the street over there?
To get down to the core of this thing, we’ll need to break through the 3 elements involved in this process: The employer, the employee and the money (or the reason behind it). First one to analyze is the employer. The reason of ‘hiring’ a prostitute, regardless of gender or orientation is vague, it’s not the lack of intercourse since some of those ‘employers’ have partners, and it’s definitely not the lack of affection since a stuffed teddy bear would do a better job than a person that takes the word ‘c*m bucket’ up to the level of a profession, then what is it? No one dares to say it, but it’s as simple as that, just to get laid as soon as possible with some change of ‘scene’ when a regular sex partner is not available at hand. As for the employer, they can be sometimes ignorant of the true orientation of their companion, some lesbian women work as prostitutes for example, and same thing goes for gay guys ‘hiring’ an escort, I think other questions will stir up rather than ‘you straight, bi or gay?’.
“…we usually fail to see unaware human beings with a profound habit of judging without thinking of the reason why those people chose this path in life”
Second one to analyze is the employee; and that’s our tough nut to crack. The first thing to come across one’s mind is: why don’t you simply just work as a male prostitute for women and that’s it? The answer to that consists of two parts, first one is that some gay guys simply prefer to sleep with straight guys as a reincarnation of a first time according for (and check this out) an agency that provides straight escorts for gay customers, might be mental, but as long as it works for both of them. Some might argue that since this employee is having consensual sex with another guy, he’s not considered straight anymore. The trick isn’t in having consensual sex (as in the same case of the statistics mentioned in last month’s article: Religion and Homosexuality), it goes far beyond that to the little point of craving and desire. Those guys might be doing and performing, but they’re not enjoying it for sure. Now that resembles to my definition of work, although mine is less… undressed! The second part of the answer is related to the third thing to analyze: cold hard cash.
While this ‘job’ looks trivial and insignificant, the cash that comes out of it isn’t – well, in some parts of the world. Again, statistics show that in NYC, the price tag of a male escort can go up to 9000$ (Ka-ching!), but on the other hand, in other countries designated as ‘sex tourism’ havens such as Brazil and Thailand, getting a guy on your arm might be cheaper than your shoes; average prices are of 15$ – 35$.
The thing which we usually fail to see and analyze as unaware human beings with a profound habit of judging without thinking of the reason why those people chose this path in life. In most cases, sex workers come from poor environments and have poor education, therefore they have nothing to invest other than the bodies God granted them in order to fulfill needs that vary from getting everyday food to supporting other family members in order to get better opportunities and not go down this risky road as well. Solution? Easy and simple, government interference to provide better conditions for everyone so such cases don’t happen in the first place, this so called profession is another form of slavery and forced labor, some international figures show that entire villages in previously mentioned ‘sex tourism’ havens are now entirely dependent on prostitution; this is not to be accepted in our modern day civilized society that advocates values of freedom, equality and human rights.
While this ‘job’ looks trivial and insignificant, the cash that comes out of it isn’t – well, in some parts of the world. Again, statistics show that in NYC, the price tag of a male escort can go up to 9000$ (Ka-ching!), but on the other hand, in other countries designated as ‘sex tourism’ havens such as Brazil and Thailand, getting a guy on your arm might be cheaper than your shoes; average prices are of 15$ – 35$.
The thing which we usually fail to see and analyze as unaware human beings with a profound habit of judging without thinking of the reason why those people chose this path in life. In most cases, sex workers come from poor environments and have poor education, therefore they have nothing to invest other than the bodies God granted them in order to fulfill needs that vary from getting everyday food to supporting other family members in order to get better opportunities and not go down this risky road as well. Solution? Easy and simple, government interference to provide better conditions for everyone so such cases don’t happen in the first place, this so called profession is another form of slavery and forced labor, some international figures show that entire villages in previously mentioned ‘sex tourism’ havens are now entirely dependent on prostitution; this is not to be accepted in our modern day civilized society that advocates values of freedom, equality and human rights.