Why You Could Be a Prostitute's Worst Enemy

WHY YOU COULD BE A PROSTITUTE’S WORST ENEMY



In a world where even the best qualified and most capable women still routinely earn 30-40% less than men doing the same job, there’s one labour market that women control – prostitution. 

However as working women point out, their economic conditions are being constantly eroded by one dire enemy – the increasing number of women who put out for free.




Earnings Going Down.....

Until fairly recent times, men have generally sought more sex than they can access for free.  Therefore there was a steady demand for prostitutes and the price remained high.  Sudhir Venkatesh, sociologist at New York’s Columbia University recently studied the lives of 21st century working women and concluded that they now earned considerably less than they would have 100 years ago.

Demand Going Down.....

Why?  Because demand has dropped.  Not the demand for sex per se, but the demand for paid sex. Like any industry prostitution is vulnerable to competition and we’re all aware that sexual values have changed dramatically in the last hundred years.  When once sex outside of marriage was hard to secure, more men were willing to turn to prostitutes. 

Says Steven Levitt in the Times:
‘At least 20% of American men born between 1933 and 1942 had their first sexual intercourse with a prostitute.  While relatively expensive in the short term, it provided good long-term value because it didn’t carry the potential costs of an unwanted pregnancy or a marriage commitment’.  (Source: The Times)

Says Camilla, a Birmingham based street worker:

'Where once we might have got some really nice single guys, now we tend just to get those wierdos who have difficulty finding a regular girlfriend or married men who want kinky sex but don't want to get caught having an affair.  This job just gets harder and harder'.