Sunday 19 June 2011

a way of life older than the Bible

[Moulin Rouge, 19th c.]
[the Dita]
[grabbing the great behind]

this might not make too much sense but I like to look at the big picture.

We have some people who make their living by the use of their bodies,
either for sex or for (naked) show, or as models. We're talking mostly about women.

They are working, not for their health, but for money. Money is necessary in a modern
society for doing anything: to eat, to have a roof over your head.

So, there's supply and demand.
there's also people who view the body-trade as immoral.
they may be right.

The question is, what would people be doing without money, in order to live?
Would they be offering their bodies to someone to look after them?
Some would say that a society means that people meet clothed and decide to marry.
Fine, but say there was no society.

If we operated like animals. Would women not be giving themselves to the strongest
males in order to have food, family and protection?
Is that what feminists are upset about? that some women depend on men for their
living?
Perhaps while we're very advanced, as a society, anomie means that people view
most others as 'what can you do for me?'
Bodies in two dimensions and three are part of business.
Yet, we are returning to an animalistic interest in bodies and ignoring morals
and family.
But in the wider context of all other levels of society being without morals:
I mean Politics and Business
I would say that body-trade is the least immoral of all those. It won't take away your future.
In fact, it's one of the few trades where incomes for workers are going up.

So, who's getting screwed?

Let's just say that the maxing out of our economy by bankers is making it clear
to the last monk on the last mountain that the price of something is its value.

I'm not just talking about sybaritic lifestyles, just a bit of skin.