Over the last decade, the number of syphilis cases in China increased tenfold, according to this Associated Press report, because more migrant workers have been able to afford to hire prostitutes. The A.P. further reports that the “stigma and perceived high cost of visiting sexual health clinics” in China is hampering prevention and treatment efforts. In the U.S., meanwhile, police informants are paid well to become johns. [%comments]
When More Money = More Syphilis
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A vice cop friend of mine told me a story about how he and his partner spied on a hooker and john. Every Wednesday the john would pick up a hooker and take her to a hotel room. The hooker would dress up in a wedding gown and lay perfectly still in an open-lid coffin for twenty minutes or so. After the time was up, he would pay her and leave.
There never was any sex. He would just sit and look at her.
The cops arrested them both–her for prostitution, him for soliciting a prostitute.
“There never was any sex. He would just sit and look at her.
The cops arrested them both–her for prostitution, him for soliciting a prostitute.”
That doesn’t sound like prostitution, it sounds like performance art!
Hi, I would like if you commented the article “An Economic Case Against Homosexuality” by Bert Chapman, a professor at Purdue University, on his blog.
Aw, come on! Where’s the rest of the story? Maybe the prostitute looked like someone he loved who died and this was a form of mourning. There has to be more to this than “they were arrested…”
Dear Eric;
I don’t know if you have seen the film- “when Harry met Sally?” In it, the main male character raises a real good question- can men and women ever be friends? Whoever made the film perhaps did not think so- since the guy and the girl get together in the end. The trouble is — they were not engaged in the pursuit of scientific knowledge (which from the very beginning has required that we set our feelings (passions) aside.And if you don’t think it is possible- then you don’t know the history of science. That may be very hard for a religious person to do, but it is not impossible. Something to think about No?
they were arrested for a crime that wasn’t committed. sounds like an urban legend. prove it.
I think they may have it wrong. Back in the 80′s China was basically a police state. You needed a police pass to travel to another city. People didn’t travel in search of work. You either worked as a peasant in the village where you were born or if you were educated you moved to whatever city they told you where you were assigned a job. Public shows of affection were frowned on, there was nothing like a nightlife to go out dancing. Prostitution and drugs were severely punished. Grey-colored Mao jackets were the fashion. Under that situation STDs couldn’t spread that much.
But when Capitalism started taking over Communism, travel restrictions as well as social restrictions were relaxed. Peasants flocked to the cities to find work on their own instead of being stuck in a work-unit that ran their entire lives. People started dressing to look good and they could go out and party. Sure people earned enough money to have a sex life but the other social changes were probably just as significant.
Mo’ money, mo’ problems indeed.