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Because Who Doesn't Want to be Belle?

Wed, 05/18/2011 - 09:07
Submitted by Carlin Ross

Jennifer Hafer, an economics researcher, analyzed the U.S. prostitution market and found that affluent, educating women are entering the prostitution market:

Contrary to assumptions that women enter the prostitution market only because they are desperate – that they need money to pay bills or buy drugs – the study indicates that many women, especially educated, affluent women, are making a rational decision to enter certain segments of the prostitution market. However, the research confirmed that women do not explicitly choose to enter the streetwalking segment of the prostitution market.

“Our model demonstrated that the prostitution market may be pulling educated women – these so-called ‘high-opportunity-cost’ women – out of the conventional labor market and the marriage market, in many cases,” said Jennifer Hafer, a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Arkansas. “The findings suggest that these women are not forced into the prostitution market but rather choose to enter it for many of the same reasons that people enter the conventional job market – money, stability, autonomy and even job satisfaction.”

The idea that women may choose to be sex workers really undermines the belief that women don't like sex and suffer from low libido. Maybe we do like sex. Maybe we have unlimited capacity for pleasure. And maybe it's more fun to f*ck a john than a husband.

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I've also noticed an increase

Wed, 05/18/2011 - 12:58
Danny Wylde

I've also noticed an increase in young, upper-middle-class women entering the porn industry as performers. The porn thing may have more to do with the increase in visibilty of hardcore porn among adolescents. But the economic implications are much more pressing.
The economy is not in a good place for most young people searching for jobs. Most everyone I grew up with (they make up the current age group of 23-27) is either in grad school or selling drugs - basically prolonging or bypassing entrance into the traditional job structure. I think sex work is another viable way to do this.

Strutting her stuff

Wed, 05/18/2011 - 23:09
Doug (not verified)

I have been noticing that 'ol Carlin has been strutting her fine trim  around lately.  She is quite fetching even in her characture-ish way.  With that smile of hers she could be a formitable femme fatale evil force in a Batman movie.  That's an idea.  She would be perfect.

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