for the promise of light

“This place is the same as it ever was, but you won’t like it that way…”

like? the VIBE? the ROMANCE? The BEAT? The YEARNING????

I really do wanna be:

Crashing into your shore ✔

Wrapping all around you ✔

Sinking to the ground floor, Ocean deep ✔

Here at your door At 12am, ✔

and sleeping on your porch, Until you get in ✔

Looking into your eyes (((endlessly))) ✔✔✔

Falling into your lap (((desperately))) ✔✔✔

Sitting at your feet, Soaking in all your energy ✔

Knowing I'm safe 'cause you want me ✔✔✔

Sitting in a garden at your feet ✔✔✔

You, me, only holding on and on ✔✔✔

IT'S LIKE...

You're clawing at the corner of my heart, I- ✔✔✔

Can't afford to lose you any longer ✔✔✔

Holding you like hot tea ✔✔✔

You, me, only, Holding on and on ✔✔✔ BECAUSE I wanna be:

Ruined by love ✔✔✔

Drowning in rivers of peace ✔✔✔

Taking a piece of the cut ✔

Longing for everything ✔✔✔ Right now, I wanna be:

This entire thing should be a must-read for anyone who has the standard liberal feminist stance on “sex workers” and their “career choices”, or for any radical feminists who are looking for yet more evidence that prostitution is a degradation and that johns are scum. 

Some choice excerpts:

“[O]f 700 men interviewed […] just over half were either married or in a relationship with a woman.”

[One participant] said: “I want my ideal prostitute not to behave like one,” he said, “to role-play to be a pretend girlfriend, a casual date, not business-like…”

“I asked [one participant] how often he thought the women he paid enjoyed the sex. ‘I don’t want them to get any pleasure,’ he told me. ‘I am paying for it and it is her job to give me pleasure. If she enjoys it I would feel cheated.’”

“When asked what would end ­prostitution, one interviewee laughed and said, ‘Kill all the girls.’”

“Almost half said they ­believed that most women in prostitution are victims of pimps (“the pimp does the ­psychological raping of the woman,” explained one), lured, tricked, or trafficked. But they still continued to visit them.”

“One of the most interesting findings was that many believed men would “need” to rape if they could not pay for sex on demand.”

“Visiting an area where prostitution is legal or openly advertised [such as Amsterdam or Thailand] had given them a renewed dedication to buying sex when they returned to the UK.”

“[One participant] said: ‘Look, men pay for women because he can have whatever and whoever he wants. Lots of men go to prostitutes so they can do things to them that real women would not put up with.’”

Emphasis added.

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