What Drives Most Prostitution is Men.

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64. The "world oldest profession"

(probably isn't, I suspect the story-tellers were)

Started out as religious ceremony-- nothing, and I mean nothing like what we see to day. With the the rise of patriartical religions, came the degradation and punishment of the prostitute. Every major religion has a cautionary tale involving a prostitute, a woman. Tiresome, all that fear of a woman's sexuality that it had to be commodified.

The problem is economic inequity. Along the poor, women are the poorest. Women are also taught shame of their sexuality, as are men, but they have societal permission to 'indulge' without being called names.

I find most people don't understand prostitution. They just make a bunch of assumptions it about or watch HBO shows on it and assume they are now experts and ignore any detrimental effects.