Considering the willingness of many men to pay for sex with women, one might legitimately ask why women ever offer it for free. Yes sure they may enjoy it, but I may also enjoy my job; I still make sure that I am paid for it.
And indeed over the ages, women have had a sense that they had something that men valued and that they could leverage it in their own interests – whether it be with one man or with several. Thus was the commercialization of sex born. Together, no doubt, with the commercialization of everything else – the rise of the monetary economy and the scope it offered to organize society on a vastly greater, but also more inhuman scale. Continue reading “Free love”