"So it is perhaps not surprising that economists have only recently begun to turn their attention to understanding the economics of prostitution, and asking questions such as: why are wages so high?"
High is a relative term. High in respect to what? School teachers? Members of Parliament? Members of the police force? High school cleaners? Given that prostitution is legal then the rate is that which satisfies clients and prostitutes. End of story.

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<Why are prostitutes paid such high wages?>
Because men are silly enough to pay it, the reason being that they have a big SEX blog, taking up this huge space in their brain and so they can’t think very well, it’s a sad handicap really.

If men think they can sneak away to brothels and it will have no effect on their marriages I think they are kidding themselves. If there is not enough intimacy in a marriage there is something wrong with the relationship anyway and having sex elsewhere will only make that distance greater. On some level the other partner always senses the detachment when sex is being had elsewhere.

Since brothels have been legalized and all these call girls are allowed to freely advertise in the paper women have developed even more insecurity when it comes to their trust in men, so now they won’t commit to relationships or family life either. After all it has been ENSHRINED IN LAW that these sexy women have legal permission to sleep with any woman’s husband. If the men in this country sense that they are losing control of their women they would be right on the mark.

Lead by example fellows or the women today will just think what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
Poor didums maybe somebody will open a prostitute discount shop.

SANCHO:<rates are more dependant on the SEX appeal of the worker>

I just thought of something amusing.

Maybe the high charges are because of the lack of sex appeal of the men. Sort of an ugly compensation fee

Sharkfin, thanks for a good laugh!-
"Maybe the high charges are because of the lack of sex appeal of the men. Sort of an ugly compensation fee."

I am of the opinion that if a adult woman (or man) is willing to provide sex for a fee, and a man/woman is willing to pay them for the sex, then that is their business.

I still find the whole business a little sad though.

This article refers to "the Swedish model of banning prostitution but only arresting clients". Sweden does not ban prostitution. The purchase of sexual services is criminalised in certain circumstances. In this area, the law rests on an understanding of prostitution as a form of violence against women and children. Hence to say, as the article says, that "there is little evidence that banning prostitution reduces violence towards women" fails to comprehend the whole basis of the law in Sweden: prostitution of women and children IS itself a form of violence. The article in contrast rests on the assumption that prostitution is something that women do and that is essentially benign. Hence, the question at issue goes a lot deeper than the author seems to understand.
Helen Pringle

There is an old joke: What is the difference between a prostitute and a lawyer: There is none, they both screw people for money.

Since time immemorial powerful men have taken advantage of women who have a need that cannot be satisfied in any other way than by selling their bodies. The lineage of Jesus Christ is traced back to a woman who pretended she was a prostitute in order to become pregnant. This was a woman called Tamar, and after Er and Onan were killed by the Lord, in desperation she acted as a prostitute, and Judah had sex with her for the price of a kid. Since Judah did not have a kid with him, he gave her a pledge, his signet, bracelets and his staff. When Judah sent the kid, by a friend, he could not find Tamar because she had put her widows garments back on, but she was pregnant. Soon as happens she started to show signs of a baby.

Judah recognized his own signet and staff, and admitted paternity and two boys were born, one was Zerah and the other was Farah the distant ancestor of Jesus Christ. How many women have fed their children by prostitution. No one will ever know. However selling sex is not the only form of prostitution rampant in our society. Selling a persons soul for thirty pieces of silver, as Judas did is another form.

One of the lowest forms of life on this planet would have to be a Judge. A Judge presumes to take the place of Almighty God and act as the final arbiter of life and death, or long term imprisonment and this is an abomination of the law that only a person lower than a prostitute could in all conscience do.

John Grisham’s fact story, An Innocent Man, set in Oklahoma, where the Police framed a sufferer from Bipolar for murder, is evidence that at least in parts of the United States the principles of the Magna Carta are still in force. That not how it is here but should be.