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The forgotten victims of prostitution : Comments
By Jehane Sharah, published 12/11/2008There are victims of the trade of prostitution who rarely get a mention: the partners of the men who use them.
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I think that there's a reason for the cliche that prostitution is the world's oldest profession, which is primarily that there has been and probably always will be a demand for casual sex from people (mostly men) who are either sexually unsatisfied from their relationships or who are single. While this can obviously have emotional ramifications for those who are dishonest about it and their partners, I don't think that there's anything inherently wrong with separating sex from one's emotional relationships - nor, indeed, in paying for it.
As for prostitutes making "a business out of destroying a union that has divine sanction" - what a load of rubbish. As CG has pointed out, much of prostitutes' business is derived from unmarried men - and anyway marriage is a social contract between two people. There's nothing "divine" about it except in the minds of the religiously credulous.