Why Defending Prostitution Is Dangerous
- Benjamin Nolot
- Jul 26, 2017
- 2 min read
What pro-prostitution advocates fail to realize is that prostitution is INHERENTLY harmful on a human, psychological, emotional, and spiritual level. When an individual is required to entertain the sexual fantasies of various strangers on a routine basis, she is unable to offer her SELF as an emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually present human being in each and every encounter.
What prostitution requires her to do is split off part of her SELF--the part that is not interested in this man's fantasy, nor the man who is demanding it. She must then PRETEND that she is interested, aroused, and engaged by and with her male buyer. This is the essence of the prostitution contract. He pays for the illusion that she desires him and his every sexual whim, and she fulfills the illusion by ACTING it out. One prostitution survivor described her role as having to be "the best actress in the world."
Herein lies the problem. It is impossible to exist in prostitution without dissociating, without literally fracturing ones own humanity. No matter how many people come out and say that prostitution is about sexually liberated young women expressing their free choice as autonomous, empowered, and sexually self-determined individuals, it will NEVER change the prostitution contract.
I advocate for the abolition of prostitution not only because of the violence that is perpetrated through it on ones body, but because of the violence that is perpetrated through it on ones humanity. Anyone who disagrees feel free to draft up that conversation with your daughter where you assure her that "prostitution is a job just like any other," and a "viable" means of supporting ones self. I think we can do better for our daughters, so why not for our society. —Benjamin Nolot
Our minds and bodies are supposed to work as one. If they are fighting against each other then no doubt that would lead to psychological conflict. —Empress Cynthelestia Visit Benjamin's abolition websites: Exodus Cry Nefarious: Merchant of Souls (documentary)