Breaking the Monopoly: Why Prostitution Should be Legalized

Breaking the Monopoly: Why Prostitution Should be Legalized

For the empowerment of the average male, and the breaking of the female monopoly over sex and relationships. To give a chance to all of the shy men who would otherwise remain lonely virgins.

From human trafficking to the objectification of women and the morality of the sale of sex itself, few topics are as controversial and heated as that of prostitution. It has been the downfall of many great men throughout history. Politicians have had their entire careers destroyed because of it. Religions have arisen around it and religions have arisen to banish it. Anathema to the Christian West and most civilizations shaped by the Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), prostitution occupies a special place of both fear and fascination within the collective conscience of our society.

Preface

To begin, in no way is this article an endorsement of prostitution in and of itself, nor an affirmation of my own personal belief in it. I think most people would agree that there is nothing intrinsically good or meaningful about the sale of sex for money. Only that given the particular circumstances of our society today, it not only should but must exist as a necessary evil. That is, for the advancement and wellbeing of the average male who cannot succeed according to the norms and standards of society at large.

Defining Matters: What Prostitution Is and Is Not

Breaking the Monopoly: Why Prostitution Should be Legalized

According to Sexton and Cushman in a 2016 article conveniently titled Prostitution, it is "the exchange of sex acts for money or something else of value." Nothing more; nothing less. Prostitution, though it may conjure up images of pimps with big staffs and cognac, is NOT the same thing as human trafficking, which the Office on Trafficking in Persons defined in 2012 as "a modern day form of slavery in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act is under the age of 18 years." More than that, in a 2011 article written for the FBI website, Rodriguez and Hill found that human trafficking is "the fastest growing business of organized crime and the third largest criminal enterprise in the world." They also found that the average age of entry for its victims is not 21, 18, or even 16 years old, but 12-14 years old!

The exchange of sex acts for money or something else of value.

But by all means, please, continue to glorify pimps as if any amount of designer clothing or cognac atoned for such wanton acts of cruelty. It is a great misfortune that contemporary society and especially hiphop culture glorifies human trafficking as if it were something good and admirable. Indeed, St. Augustine of Hippo writes in his fifth century classic The Confessions, "How is it that I love in a human being what I would hate to be when I also am human?" For everyone of my readers who has songs like Big Pimpin' and Bitches Ain't Shit on their iPod while simultaneously feigning outrage over nasty comments made by the president within a private conversation from over a decade ago, Augustine's question is just as relevant today as it was in the fifth century.

Understanding this distinction between prostitution and human trafficking is important not only for the sake of semantics, but it is precisely because of this misunderstanding that the latter is allowed to exist through laws that seek to outlaw prostitution. In fact, it is ironically due to the fact that prostitution is illegal that human trafficking exists because it has left the industry unregulated. Much like the war on drugs, the only people protected by prohibition are the pimps who seek to make money off of a criminal enterprise. If prostitution were legalized, however, and stringently regulated down to a T, with laws set up in place to protect the interests of the prostitutes involved, human trafficking would disappear overnight because pimps would no longer have a market.

Elitism and the Hypocrisy of Keeping Prostitution Illegal

Breaking the Monopoly: Why Prostitution Should be Legalized

As stated earlier, prostitution is nothing more than the exchange of sex acts for money or something else of value. It is not, as I have already explained, synonymous with human trafficking or pimping. Both of which arise only when prostitution is kept illegal and driven into the hands of criminals. I want for my readers to truly understand this, so I will repeat it ad nauseam until I am blue in the face: prostitution is merely the exchange of sex acts for money or something else of value. Nothing more; nothing less. Look at the world around you; this is where you are about to get red pilled.

Brace yourselves, here comes the Red Pill.

If you find yourself offended by prostitution but not by the man in this image, then you are precisely a part of what is wrong with this world and there is not much else I can say to you. This is what is meant by elitism and the hypocrisy of keeping prostitution illegal. It already exists whether we like or not in the case of alpha males like Leonardo DiCaprio who is on his eleventh supermodel, unless you are going to deny that these relationships are built upon anything else than his wealth, prestige, and status. But if that were true, then I have yet to meet a single average man who has been fortunate enough to date and have sex with something like a dozen supermodels. Maybe one if he is lucky, two or three if he is blessed. But almost a dozen? Sorry, I am not buying it.

Breaking the Monopoly: Why Prostitution Should be Legalized

Which just begs the question: if prostitution is already permitted at least tacitly in the case of men like Leonardo DiCaprio, and women not only accept but even admire it, why is it not permitted in the case of average men like yours truly? If an average man wants to use what little money he has to purchase sex from a woman who has voluntarily and consensually agreed to do so of her own accord, then who are we to tell them that they cannot? More than that, upon what grounds does society and especially women feign disgust over the average man for doing so while simultaneously glorifying the same exact behavior in alpha males? I have thought long and hard about these questions, and the only answer can be hypocrisy and elitism.

Make no mistake: Leonardo DiCaprio is not better than me. Alphas are not better than the average male. Human dignity is not predicated upon wealth, status, or prestige. Unless you are willing to concede that Adriana Lima, Marisa Miller, or Gisele Bundchen are better than you because they have nicer bodies and are presumably more beautiful. No, Dostoevsky already refuted this idea almost 200 years ago. Please refer to Crime and Punishment. What applies to the average man likewise applies to the man of great prestige and honor. Wealth and status does not permit one to transgress the moral law anymore than it permitted Napoleon Bonaparte to invade Europe, or for Raskolnikov to drive that axe into the skull of that greedy old pawnbroker in order to prove to himself that he was another Napoleon and not just a louse like everyone else, that it was permitted for him to kill. The point being, if prostitution is permitted for Leonardo DiCaprio, then it is likewise permitted for me and the average male. That or it is not permitted at all, even for him. The fact that society and especially women would permit it in the one case and not the other is a textbook example of elitism and hypocrisy.

Male Empowerment and the Need for Prostitution

Breaking the Monopoly: Why Prostitution Should be Legalized

One final point I want to make to my readers and especially the female ones is that not only should prostitution be legalized for the aforementioned reasons, but it must be legalized. There is a need for prostitution and the wellbeing of average males everywhere rests upon it. As stated earlier, not every male or even the majority of males can succeed according to the norms and standards of society at large which favor alpha males and women at the expense of the average male. Perhaps it would be useful to explain this in economic terms. Through the upheaval of traditional morality governing sex and relationships, the Sexual Revolution has essentially deregulated the market so that all of the safeguards that once existed to ensure fairness for all have been destroyed. It has essentially transformed the contemporary sexual landscape into a laissez faire nightmare so that all of the problems we would expect to find in a market economy with little to no regulation like the forming of monopolies and advancement of the few at the expense of many are playing out before our very eyes.

There is a need for prostitution.

In short, average males are finding themselves in a world that is more and more beginning to resemble that of polygamy, with the few alphas at the top monopolizing the majority of women at our expense. For just as a laissez faire approach to economics leads to monopolization, so it leads to polygamy in the case of sexuality. That is, only the top percentile of males are benefiting from this system whereas the majority of males are at a disadvantage. More than that, average males are being exploited by females in need of an insurance policy for after the alphas abandon them. In other words, women are sleeping with the assholes at the top and then settling down with average men only after getting their hearts broken. We are being made into insurance policies. Worse still, there is nothing we can do about it because we literally have no other options. It is either settle for the leftovers of another man and allow ourselves to be used as if we were nothing more than an insurance policy, or die a sexless virgin.

Prostitution, then, is important because it gives the average male another option. This is what is meant by breaking the monopoly. It empowers the average male because it no longer forces them to have to choose between being an insurance policy and dying a sexless virgin. It means that as an average male I have other options, that I no longer have to settle for the leftovers of another man and women can no longer force me into being their insurance policies. If anything, I am afforded a position of leverage where I can begin to hold women accountable to standards, because they can no longer weaponize sex against me.

In Conclusion,

Breaking the Monopoly: Why Prostitution Should be Legalized

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  • The one simple reason I support legalization of prostitution (in countries where it's still illegal) is this: as long as everyone involved is a capable, consenting adult, it's no one else's business. It's a matter of personal freedom. Give prostitutes the labour rights other workers have and stop marginalizing them.

    As for the "average males" that can't get sex elsewhere, c'mon we've got bigger problems than that. It's not a matter of public interest if girls aren't attracted to you. Health, Education, Economy are. Besides, when it comes to relationships and sex, it's all a matter of personal preference. You are not being wronged if you are not picked as someone's interest.

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  • I think it should be legalized but soliciting prostitution should be illegal so the prostitutes can be safe from pimps and they can still be against prostitution so everyone wins except for the people paying for it <3

    • Well, it would likely be that the girls would have to join some sort of prostitution firm where they might get occupational healthcare, or help networking, etc. If a prostitute wants to be freelance, then she'll have to come up with her own money for healthcare and have to do her own bookkeeping. That would be a bitch. Especially considering that with the free market at work, she'd have to compete with the other prostitutes and probably lower her rates, meaning a lot more customers to stay in business and that bookkeeping might become something she needs someone else to do (say, a private accountant). When the free market decides, the customers win.

    • That's the way it sort of is in Canada, but I think it's a bad system. If prostitutes can't solicit, then they're relegated to darker, shadier parts of cities, and that actually makes it EASIER for pimps to get to them, or even for human trafficking to flourish instead of voluntary prostitution.

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  • Honestly? Prostitution was made illegal in large parts of the USA by churchy people, working people and family people, who didn't want that going on anywhere near where they were worshipping, working and / or raising their families.

    However, prostitution IS typcially tolerated if restricted to a certain part of a city, hence the term "red-light district", or permitted in officially licensed and sanctioned brothels, as happens in the State of Nevada today.

    And in Nevada, those brothels are in out of the way remote places. 12 of Nevada's 17 counties permit licensed brothels, but the 5 populated ones do not:
    --Washoe County (Reno)
    --Clark County (Las Vegas)
    --Carson City/County
    --Douglas County (Lake Tahoe and Ski Resorts)
    --Lincoln County (St. George)
    Open "Streetwalking" remains illegal in Nevada.

  • I support it being legalized.

  • Well said. I want to hear about what ( sane) women think of this as well.
    Do you think a state run organization or a simple legalization would work better?

  • Prostitution is legalised in civilised countries, only the backward US of A have a ban, while having guns readily available.

    • Oh puhleeze. Don't tell me Euro brothels are near the children's schools. Nor is prostitution banned nationwide in the USA. Prostitution *is* restricted to certain parts of American cities, hence the term "red-light districts", or permitted in officially licensed and sanctioned brothels, as happens in the State of Nevada today. And in Nevada, those brothels are in out of the way remote places. 12 of Nevada's 17 counties permit licensed brothels, but the 5 populated ones, where nearly all the children are raised, do not: --Washoe County (Reno) --Clark County (Las Vegas) --Carson City/County --Douglas County (Lake Tahoe and Ski Resorts) --Lincoln County (Saint George) Open "Streetwalking" remains illegal in Nevada, and just about everywhere else.

    • @Curmudgeon "Nevada is the only U. S. jurisdiction to allow some legal prostitution. Currently eight counties in Nevada have active brothels (these are all rural counties); as of June–July 2008 there were 28 legal brothels in Nevada. Prostitution outside the licensed brothels is illegal throughout Nevada." Enough said.

    • Guns and prostitution are two different things; what is your point? Repression of personal choice is the same in either case.

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  • its their body, they can do whatever they want, government should have no rights.
    its like paying tax of your body lol

  • It should be legal, but regulated. For example:
    -you must get a permit to have a sex establishment
    -women should be checked to ensure that they are not part of a sexy trafficking ring
    -before any sexual conduct can be had, both the customer and the woman must do a STD test. If any STDs are detected... the customer can't have sex until it's cleared up (if it's a curable std) and the worker can't have sex until it's cleared up (if it's a curable std).

  • Well said!