Thank Goodness for Miss Whiplash

I do not sell my body for sex, nor am I an individual who would pay for sex. I am, however, an advocate of individual liberty and will therefore always defend the right of any individual to voluntarily buy or sell sexual services. So long as it is between consenting adults and is not harming anybody, I do not personally see what the problem with prostitution is. But not only am I writing this article in defence but out of anger at government, because they are threatening the livelihood of those who make a living from fucking and titillating.

It might surprise some shithead nanny statists that yes some people actually like to fuck and titillate for a living. But why should it be such a surprise? Some people earn a living from singing; others from acting or performing magic tricks. Why not fucking and titillating? But not only do people like to earn a living from sexual services and enjoy doing so, prostitutes, and particularly dominatrixes,  are performing an important public service.

The importance of prostitutes and dominatrixes is an uncomfortable truth, since their existence shows our society is not as liberal and enlightened as we like to think. Sex workers service sexual deviants and allow many to indulge the desires they cannot be honest with their partners about. Further, because society is driven by vanity, sex workers often service the sexual urges of the physically disabled and socially inept: people whose sexual urges we like to pretend don’t exist. So I say thank goodness for Miss Whiplash, because prostitutes and dominatrixes actually perform a vital service.

The government time and time again proposes to make it illegal to actually pay for sexual services (prostitution is currently legal in the UK, but with many restrictions).  Such measures threaten the livelihood of many, and is an affront to the idea that you own your own body. But of course government thinks it is their business because ‘women are exploited.’ Okay, there are women who are forced against their will into prostitution but that’s because government allows it by not making prostitution a totally legal, and therefore legitimate, occupation. Criminals are able to expolit this situation. Those criminal gangs which do force women into prostitution must be prosecuted, but then so should any group or company using slave labour.

The government also often says that action needs to be taken about street prostitution. There may be some problems with street prostitution when prostitutes solicit for business against the wishes of local residents. Street prostitution is also a very dangerous occupation, due to both organised crime and common thugs. It’s clearly better to perform sexual services from a private house or apartment, but throwing women in jail for soliciting is deplorable.

But what is really striking about the most recent government proposals on prostitution, there is no differentiation between street prostitution and, say, professional dominatrixes. A professional dominatrix is something very far removed from street prostitution. To begin with, professional dominatrixes do not tend to offer direct sexual services. Secondly, to build up any customer base as a dominatrix has to know a fair bit about BDSM practices and be competent at them. Thirdly BDSM equipment is not cheap to buy and maintain. Fourthly, try wearing BDSM type PVC clothing in the middle of summer; not exactly comfortable. Basically, what I am saying here is that to be a professional dominatrix you really have to want to be one, because it’s not easy. Having met a few professional dominatrixes I know that dominatrixes get something out of their living other then money. But trying telling that to a government which instructs social workers that if clients say they would like to be a professional dominatrix, then they need to be put into therapy.

When Tony Blair was Prime Minster the government had rumoured to be considering proposals to relax the laws on brothels. But ever since Gordon Brown became Prime Minster there has been a new strain of Puritanism dictating government policy. There was the back-peddling on super-casinos, the reclassification of Magic Mushrooms from being legal to class A, and the reclassification of marijuana.  Now, attention has turned towards the sex industry.

Has the government really thought through the consequences of banning transactions involving sex?

Organised crime will find it easier to manoeuvre and gain control, as organised crime does whenever government prohibits something people value. But more scary is that if some in government got their way on prostitution, the rates of rape and sexual assault would increase as sexual deviants and the socially inept are less able to indulge their urges without hurting anyone.

One last thing I would say to shithead moralists and nanny statists: I would much rather people fucked and sucked for a living rather than kill and maim.