I know the whole taking it point-by-point thing is frowned upon in these parts, but I’m in the fucking Pit already, so what’s the harm?
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Yeah, because if men could not find a partner for sex any time they want, there might be some kind of societal problem involving women who will have sex with men in exchange for money.
Seriously, there’s a reason why it’s the oldest profession in the world, isn’t there? Do you think millions of guys want to part with cash in a really nasty part of town while risking arrest and disease instead of just finding one of the many, many women ready to have sex because of the thrill of it?
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I’m not even totally sure where to begin with this pile of steaming strawman bullshit, to tell the truth. Because some men have a higher sex drive than some women, hence the sex industry? Really? You think the only reason the sex industry exists and is profitable is because women don’t find sex interesting? And what, precisely, do bought-and-paid-for sexual relations have to do with my previously stated position (hereby summed up for the slow of thought and reading-comprehension deficient) that the meme “Women can get laid whenever they want, but men can’t” is unexpurgated horse puckey?
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As to your observation about standards, I don’t know if you’ve ever seen real life prostitutes, but they are not at all like Julia Roberts.
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I have met, spoken with and at one point numbered several (both currently-at-that-time and former-at-that-time) prostitutes among my personal friends, Skippy.* Can you say as much? Several of them were quite attractive (inasmuch as I can tell - being not at all inclined towards women, myself), and some of them were of average attractiveness and a couple of them were coyote-ugly but possessed of other charms. Of them, three were male.**
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And if there were some other explanation for the enduring, ubiquitous presence of prostitutes other than a gender difference in desire for sex, there should be lots of heterosexual male prostitutes standing on streetcorners in every town in the world.
Sorry, but your argument just doesn’t fly, and I’m not sure of the purpose in trying to make it in the first place. Clearly men generally have a much greater drive for sex than women do.
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Do you not understand the historic social and economic underpinnings of the sex industry? The mere existence of a larger proportion of sex workers catering to one gender over the other is not proof positive of the relative sex drives of each gender. It’s a fairly convincing indicator of which gender was historically in possession of the power, freedom and cashflow to engage in paid-for sex, though. Keep in mind that until the past 30 - 40 years, women were (generally) not in a financial position to engage in hiring sex. Not to mention the fact that such behavior would be a total and complete social disaster for any woman caught in engaging in such an act. Not so much for their male counterparts.
Pointing to the sex industry as evidence that men have higher sex drives than women is functionally the same as pointing to the sports industry (overwhelmingly marketed for men and aimed at men) and parroting off the meme that women don’t like sports.
Let’s not forget that there’s a segment of the sex industry that caters to women - not a majority by any means, but it’s there and growing every year. There are posters of long standing on this board who *earn their living * as members of the sex industry catering to women.
And while we’re examining logical inconsistencies in your argument, what about the portion of the male population that does not engage in paid-for sex? Are all of them such pure sexual gold that they never go without a female receptacle when they want sex? Or do they have lower sex drives than the rest of ya’ll? Maybe they’re women in disguise!
The sex industry has precious little to do with the relative sex drives of men versus women, and for you to bring it up makes you either naive yourself or willfully ignorant. Or maybe just a misogynistic bastard.
It still remains my contention that men who bitch about never being able to find someone to fuck while women can find someone to fuck anytime they want are really bitching about not being able to find someone who meets their standards who is also willing to fuck them. That is a totally different circumstance than “nobody to fuck at all” which is what the asinine “women can get laid whenever they want and men can’t” meme is all about.
*Sadly, several of them are no longer with us (occupational hazard - two died of AIDS and one was murdered by a customer) and I have fallen out of contact with the remainder - largely because I moved several thousand miles away upon completing my education and I’m a hideously bad correspondent.
**One catering exclusively to male clients for sex, two who were willing to entertain partners of either gender (depending on sex act desired) but who preferred female clients.
