The Unpolished Hoe

Prostitution is merely a relationship where everything is expressed before hand and the timeline is short and predetermined.

No people I have not gone insane, at least not to my knowledge. Neither am I serving to trivialize the sanctity of love and honest relationships. What I am saying is that relationships share many similarities to prostitution. Both call for the exchange of something for something. Prostitution is the most basic of the transactions because you know the quantity and duration of the quantities of everything that is being exchanged. In a relationship we exchange time, company, finances or intimate relations. Usually it is a combination of the above with proportions not necessarily being fixed.

In the most basic sense relationships and prostitution are barter systems. In most places it is not the act of prostitution that is illegal but the act of soliciting. I may be wrong but to me this says that if I am a regular customer and I know Jezebel by name and I know her rates that I can drive up to her have her get into my vehicle, drive off and take care of our exchange in private without any legal repercussions because we didn’t engage in any negotiations. Prostitution is like a going to the market to negotiate for some fish. You discuss the price per type of fish and decide if it is worth it.

Male to female relationships be they marital, extra-marital or merely courtship type relationships involve exchanges. There is the surrender of time; some parties give up sex to satisfy the other party. Money and having a listening ear, washing laundry, cooking, picking up after, providing someone to spend time with to beat the loneliness or sex may be the tools of barter. The differentiation now comes in the time span. Marriage is generally expected to be forever but this has been shown to change. Someone can go outside the agreement, people change and drift or someone can die. Normal relationships between two parties fall under the same rules except that there is less expectation for length of time.

Other than time the only other difference is that prostitution is 97% of the time based on sex. Sometimes there is a weirdo who has no friends so pays for company to listen to him speak or spank him with a paddle. Other relationship may include exchanges of duties. I cook whilst you mop and we share the laundry duties, is one example of such exchange. The amount of variables that can be exchanged are innumerable and are usually not stated. I don’t come out and say I want you to cure my loneliness and in return I’m have sex with you and buy you nice things and take you to dinner. In prostitution I come right out and say I have $60 what can I have?

With these fact outlined it is easy to see that I am not that farfetched in my basic interpretation. Whilst most of us reading this may prefer to engage in the uncertainty of the normal relationship there are some people out there who would prefer to have it short and to the point.