The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture. - Camille Paglia
I started working upon this piece on the basis of an account mailed to me by one of my friends. After trying to work it into a story for about an hour or so I abandoned the pursuit on account of the lengthiness of the resultant narrative. Therefore, I am presenting just the interview sans any frills or elaborations , the names have been changed in deference to the identities of the concerned parties.
It took place in the aftermath of an entertaining night spent by one of my friends in one of those havens which cater to the carnal desires of people in proportion to the weight of their pockets.He lay spent alongside her and purely out of the need indulged in the conversation which I present to the readers after doing away with the words considered too harsh for the paper-
R: You know, you are wonderful !
L: I know. That is what they all say.
R: No, no I mean it. Infact, you are too good to be here.
L: I am good that is why I am here in the first place.
R: What! Do you mean you like it here?
L: Why shouldn't I like it? I love my job !
R: Some job I should say ! You call it a job you slave !
L: Slavery is not what I do, it is what you do poring over those irrelevant files for the sake of unknown faces and doing something that doesn't give you an ounce of joy while you do it.
R: Ah ! Selling your flesh for money and you dare to compare your debauchery to the service I render to the society !
L: The service that I render saves societies from falling apart due to sexual crimes and marriages from falling apart due to unsatisfied desires. As such I hold the social fabric and prevent it from falling apart.
R: You sound too much like a professor giving a speech you ignorant whore!
L: For your kind information I am a graduate in history from one of the premier institutions of the country.
R: You are joking right !
L: I never do.
R: Then why did you ? How can you ? Were you kidnapped ? Did your husband force you to do this ? Was it the need to support your family ?
L: I chose it because I wanted to do this. Like people choose to be a doctor I choose to be a prostitute.
R: That is the biggest joke I have heard in my entire life ! Who would want to be a sex worker if given a choice ?
L: Why wouldn't anybody ? It pays and it is fun !
R: This is the first time I have heard this about what you do !
L: It is because society fears that its thin balance of equilibrium would get devastated and women know that they will loose the biggest means of livelihood that they have- marriage. Those who enter into this realm are brainfed these ideas in such high doses that they believe the same.
R: Don't you think it is an overstatement to call it a profession given that you use your body as your source of livelihood ?
L : Am I much different from a football or tennis player then ? Making some one ejaculate is purely a process of physical libido, however, making him enjoy it is an art.
L : Am I much different from a football or tennis player then ? Making some one ejaculate is purely a process of physical libido, however, making him enjoy it is an art.
R: Isn't it painful to realize that people visit you, want you just to satiate their basal lust ?
L: Doesn't the pain make the service rendered even greater on account of the fact that I am able to make someone enjoy even though I endure pain myself ? Making someone's life happier , though earning my livelihood from it ? Doesn't it make me a social servant ?
R: Making someone indulge in the vices of skin, isn't it a cardinal sin ?
L: Again we come to the same point. If people get involved in this, society and its artificial instruments of engagement suffer a big jolt. What will happen to the libraries filled with useless outpourings and clubs with gossiping ladies and cardplaying cronies. Hell ! Using the glands given by nature is much better than using alcohol or tobacco. It is not just a source of entertainment, it is celebrating nature . How can celebrating nature be unnatural or a sin ?
L: Again we come to the same point. If people get involved in this, society and its artificial instruments of engagement suffer a big jolt. What will happen to the libraries filled with useless outpourings and clubs with gossiping ladies and cardplaying cronies. Hell ! Using the glands given by nature is much better than using alcohol or tobacco. It is not just a source of entertainment, it is celebrating nature . How can celebrating nature be unnatural or a sin ?
R: What of the more practical risks involved, like veneral diseases and the malpractices of pimps?
L: Again social hypocrisy is to be blamed for this. Proper agencies and regulatory boards can make all these problems go away. Till then, we will have to keep paying the local beat officer bribe so that we may at least work before dawn breaks.
R: A National Board of Prostitutes , NBP ! I need a drink to swallow this one down, it would be better if you work below my belly rather than above it.
L: Yes that is what I expect from you, you prick ! Then they call us the ignorant ones !
PS:- Leela you are awesome ! Will surely pay you a visit. Rasheed you will always remain a deutschebag !
The Poet Hello.
Fascinating write-up!
Thanks for sharing and visiting.
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