Monday 6 April 2009

Happy Hooker


Qualitative research with working class guys indicates that there is a sea-change of attitudes towards prostitution. Visting a prostitute is no longer seen as the domain of old men in macks.

There are several reasons for this:

(1) Cocaine and drink: These guys report that when they mix drink and cocaine it makes them much more horny: However, because their wives don't like the fact that they do cocaine, they often stay out with their mates and when they get the horn they either book an escort, to come round, or they go to a local hooker.

As the following verbatims illustrate:

"I always feel horny when I have had a line up, so rather than disturb my misses I look for a good time girl"

"I have been in situations where I have been with my mates and we have been watching a bit of porn and doing a bit of coke. Then someone will say to us...let's get a girl round for a shag. Sometimes we will get a girl each but often we will just get one girl for all of us"

(2) Lad's holidays: The tradition of lad's holidays abroad e.g. stag parties: Often introduces these guys to prostitution:

"When you are with the lads in Tallinn or Prague you always have a few beers then go for a shag"

"When we went to Prague, there were loads of tarts offering sex, after a few beers you don't say no"

"We always have a boy's holiday to Thailand: When you are in Thailand you have got to have a shag"

(3) Cleaner prostitutes: There is a perception that the sex workers who are in flats are often much cleaner than girls who are working on the streets

"I would never shag a street girl..they should pay me"
"There is something nice about going to a flat. The places are clean and you get a nice cup of tea"
"The girl's that I use are clean there is no needle marks in their arms"

(4) Easy availability of prostitutes. These guys claim that getting a prostitute is very easy all you have to do is look in the local paper.

(5) Question of race: These guys claim that the girls they use are not English. The girls are mainly from Thailand or Eastern Europe. There is a perception often fuelled by the media that being a prostitute is part of these girls culture.

"In Thailand there are prostitutes but they like doing that job...they always smile."

"Russian girls come over here to make money. They can't do much so they lie on their backs..that is why they don't mind shagging anyone"

"Lip stick and short skirts that's the Eastern European girls for you..they are brought up to be slappers"

"They are not English...so I don't care about shagging them"

"Eastern European girls learn to do blow jobs from an early age"

Because the girls are foreign, not English, they do not think that they are someone's daughter.
For them issues of sex trafficking are not on the radar, they don't believe it or if it if they do they just dismiss it with comments like: "I'm always nice to the girls"

(6) Availability of porn. The wide spread availability of porn makes these guys think that some women are slags.

"You want to be a porn star"
"You want to do the things in porn films to someone..who is not your wife."
"There are always girls that will do things that your wife won't do"

However, the worrying trend is that these guys will often not use protection when they visit prostitutes and after the visit to the sex worker they will go back home to their wife.

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