BY Lux Alptraum
December 12, 2007
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We tend to make certain assumptions about people who seek out the services of prostitutes. We assume that this this the only way they can get laid, we assume that they’re socially inept or unattractive, we assume that they have some freakish fetish that someone must be paid to participate in. Oh, and we assume that they’re male.

And in many, if not most, cases, those assumptions are wrong. Case in point: The Times has a fascinating essay by a woman who has spent the past three years regularly soliciting the services of a male prostitute. Once a month, they meet for a date at a fancy restaurant, go back to a hotel room, and have amazing, romantic sex. Is the author hard up for sex? Is she horrifically ugly? Is she so desperate that she really has to pay for it?

No: she’s just a busy working mother with no time (or desire) to date, to strike up a relationship. She’s a woman who wants sex, but wants it on her terms, her way, in the way that you can get it when you’re paying for it. Which, really, is one of the best arguments we can think of for legalized prostitution. In spite of all our romantic notions, we have to admit that — at least sometimes — the perfect relationship involves an exchange of cash.

[Via Daily Bedpost, photo by palec]