Biblically?
I’m just trying to figure out if the appalling attitude you just expressed towards sex workers is your own personal opinion, or if you’re projecting it on other people.
So what?
Sex doesn’t necessarily involve an emotional or “spiritual” connection. Masturbation is the stimulation of one’s own genitals without the aid of a partner, or, loosely, the manual stimulation if another’s genitals without insertion into an orifice. Calling oral, anal, or vaginal intercourse with a hooker masturbation tortures the word into meaninglessness.
And erases the prostitute’s existence as a person.
No, the fact that a partner is involved and that a penis is inserted into a pussy, mouth, or ass means it is not masturbation.
Hell, I’ve had unpleasant PIV and oral sex, but it wasn’t masturbation either.
Well, I wouldn’t go that far, but it does devalue her or him. Erasing the hooker as a person would involve, I dunno, vaporizing her or him with a phaser or something.
Masturbation, as Woody Allen put it, is sex with someone I love. Going to a hooker probably isn’t.
Typical Skald. Always reaching for the disintegrator, when a simple mind-wipe will serve just as well.
In the book Dies the Fire, by S.M. Stirling, there is an important character named Mike Havel.
In one paragraph there is mention of how, when Mike was a kid, he liked Edgar Rice burrough’s Mars books. Then he kind of got turned off as a teen ager because he realized “that, since Dejah Thoris layed eggs, John Carter had essentially been doing the nasty with a giant bug.”
Just the character’s viewpoint, not even Stirling’s.
Thank God someone has finally woken up and addressed this. I always had this feeling something was not quite “right” in the world. You have ripped off the emperors clothes and I say “Bravo”!
Not if it is sophisticated enough. At Star Trek’s level of AI, the “partner” is indistinguishable from a real person. The Turing Test has been absolutely demolished.
This would only be true if the prostitute is doing a rotten job. If the partner is doing it right, then it at least begins to approach a true “act of love.” Having sex with a bored partner is a bit like masturbation, but that’s the partner’s fault.
Sufficiently sophisticated masturbation is indistinguishable from good sex.
Insufficiently sophisticated masturbation is still kinda fun.
Really simple example: take a deck of cards, or dice, or a computer random-number-generator, and vary your masturbation style randomly. Randomly vary speed, depth of stroke, angle, etc. The point is that you don’t know what is going to happen next. This very coarsely simulates having “someone else” participating in the activity with you. Now upgrade this to a fully-functioning sim body and a totally convincing AI mind.
No, being with another person means it’s not masturbation. Enjoyment and pleasure is totally irrelevant.
Ear sex is now possible! What a time to be alive!
Think anyone ever tried to have sex with a horta?
“Send a clean up team to deck six with some BBQ sauce!”
I don’t know, I tend to think terentii has a point here. Paying a prostitute for sex is basically treating her like a rented fleshlight or “Real Doll.” I missed the quote, but whoever said above that it reduces her personhood is also correct. That’s exactly what so many of us object to about the sex industry.
Obviously, some men develop a business relationship with women to whom they give repeat business, but I doubt that’s the norm. (Zero experience here, but it seems likely.)
As to the hologram, it’s on the same level as the “Real Doll,” however you count that. I just wonder, what happens to the mess when you turn off the program? Does it suddenly drop to the floor? Do you have to do a walk of shame to the janitor’s closet before the next person goes in?
Just think of the horror that would be Montezuma’s Revenge.
The Silver Age Superman had superhuman control over his bodily functions, as mentioned above. However, there was an exception: one time Mr. Mxyzptlk pranked Metropolis with magic sneezing powder, which Superman sucked up with his super-breath. He then had to flee far away from Earth because his sneeze was powerful enough to destroy a solar system:
It’s good to know that someone else thought that relationship was pretty unhealthy.
No; I don’t find that premise remotely likely.
I thought the original implication was that the prostitute does not fully value the client as a person, but I could be wrong.
The future humans were sentient enough to devise clothing (since they couldn’t follow the book and have them be naked); and Nova did just barely manage to speak Taylor’s name. I always thought that they weren’t animals but suffered from something like autism.
P.S.: Consent from mute feral human female = she doesn’t try to bite your junk off. 
What’s the term for having consensual sex with a human who is of legal age…but not of legal competence? It seems like a form of rape.
But it gets quirky when the human is of a tribe or clan where none of the members has legal competence as we define it. And they have sex among themselves in pretty much the usual fashion. (Sigh. Probably an alpha male who gets all the females, and a bunch of very frustrated and highly opportunistic mu, nu, and tau males waiting for their chance…)
Its not a form of rape, it is rape.