The weirdest things

So I have one email account that I keep strictly personal. I don't sign up for shit with it.... only friends and family have it. I have been able to keep the junk mail down, almost non-existent.

Then tonight I get the weirdest email ever. Weird because it wasn't typical spam. There were no "click here" or Viagra offers. Just an email, addressed only to me from someone I don't know. And it was an article. A weird article, considering. Interesting.

I just finished a fantastic book recommended to me by a friend. "Secrets From An Escort". Now when it was first recommended I thought it would be some silly book about what women need to do to please a man. I mean the woman who wrote it was an escort, she was paid for her services, so I assumed that it was all about the man.

I was wrong, very wrong. It was more about our sexuality, men and women. It was about the pressures that society and our own self's put on about sex. It went in depth into the psychological aspects of sex and all the things in between.

Of course there will nice little ideas for intensifying sex. But it wasn't focused solely on intensifying the pleasure of a man but intensifying your own pleasure.

And she is actually a very educated woman.

But...

It started me thinking about the sex industry: Porn, prostitution and escorts. Yes I don't lump prostitution and escorts together. For me they are two entirely separate "occupations". Prostitution is all about oppression for me. Woman that are prostitutes are working the streets, they are performing blow jobs in cars and such. I am not attempting a "holier than thou" attitude, but it is degrading to the woman. I don't feel that prostitutes get into the profession for the love of it. I think that statistically speaking (I don't have them, I just like the way that sounds), prostitutes are by nature desperate. They are runaways, castaways, people "wronged" by society. They may be drug addicts or victims of sexual abuse as children. They ran from something in an attempt to escape and ended up on the streets, performing fellatio to survive.

Escorts are different. Foremost they are paid more. I am not going to go as far and say that they aren't selling their body for money, because when it is all boiled down, they are. But... they are making choices. The men that hire escorts are likely a different breed then the men that hire prostitutes.

It could be a hypocritical, my belief that the two professions are different. But I hold it to be true.

To me.... (this means it is strictly my opinion) escorts are making the choice, prostitutes (while inherently it usually is a choice) aren't.

Anyways, long blog to mention an email and a wonderful book.