PCA 6261be
Why Girls Work?
Service Providers What kind of money is a service provider likely to earn?
"Doing prostitution feels like the amount of money you’re being paid gives me the sense that my labor is valued, from purely a monetary sense, other work I have done felt to me to be particularly undervalued, most particularly nursing." Quote from Aust Studies @ www.aic.gov.au The girls (Service provides) we have must be over 18 years, have a current monthly medical certificate. We do get a large number of enquiries from new girls to the industry, we are renowned as being very good to our girls. We train, guide and direct the girls as required. A new girl can come in, have a look around, meet other girls, a few clients, and see how the parlor operates from the camera’s in the reception and lounge rooms. There is no age limit, we have had girls 18 to 55 work for us, the average age would be mid to late 20’s It is probably this aspect of prostitution which others find most difficult to understand. How can sex be work? After all, for most people it is a pleasant natural pastime, and for the average permissive pragmatist its enjoyment makes it inconceivable as toil. For the Christian moralist, extramarital sex is "sin" not deserving the dignity of being referred to as "work". In both these instances, their responses bear a strong relationship to the Protestant work ethic, with its doctrine of work as toil, sin as pleasure, and work never equated with pleasure. The strong economic motivation for women entering prostitution is the same for anyone entering the work force. This itself is a strong indication that prostitutes are seeking incomes, and not just some imagined or real psychological propensities. What prostitutes have to exchange for this income is the use of their bodies and time in a sexual service. In the 1983 (Perkins & Bennett 1985) study of Sydney's inner city prostitutes, nearly 97 per cent of the sample of 121 women stated earning an income as their reasons for entering prostitution, and 62 per cent of them claimed their only other alternative was a welfare pension. An American study arrived at similar findings. Nearly a third of 29 mid-west prostitutes worked in commercial sex for entirely economic reasons, while a further 17 of the 29 were psychologically as well as economically motivated, according to the researcher (Decker 1979). In the sense that prostitutes exchange their labor for cash, it is little different to the everyday exchange of non-sexual labor for cash. Doctors, chartered accountants, lawyers, typists and tradesmen also exchange their labors or skills for cash. The argument that prostitutes are different to these is that they enter an intimate arrangement with another person by physical contact with that person's sexual parts. Prostitutes counter-argue by saying that they do not feel emotionally intimate with their clients and that many of their services do not include sex. Besides, doctors also make a living which include physical contact with the sexual parts of their patients, and no one seems to question their right to take money for it or treat it as work. Some office secretaries have been known to sleep with their bosses for a higher income, and no one would consider calling them prostitutes. Laura, an American call-girl, argued: " I use my body to earn a living. What is the difference between working with my hands and working with my pussy. You're still working with a part of your body, which is no different to working with your brains." Quote from Aust Studies @ www.aic.gov.au |
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